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Youth Rising in the UK 1981-2021 brings together photographs which offer a window on scenes of romance, empathy, protest and pain.

The Martin Parr Foundation is offering up photographs from its collection for a new exhibition capturing historic moments and the everyday since WWII.

Major photography and digital art festival launches next month St Bees A major festival of photography and digital art celebrating the west coast will begin in Cumbria next month. The West Coast Photo Festival aims to reveal and celebrate the unique identity of the coastline, often overshadowed by the fame of the neighbouring Lake District. Organiser Signal Film and Media said it will explore the character of the area’s people, using photography and digital art to articulate local, national and international identities. The festival was due to open in March 2020 but was cancelled due to...

In advance of the Tate Modern galleries' reopening (planned for May 17) in London, Beuys’ Acorns is a fresh installation representing ideas of regeneration, and is free for visitors to see outside the museum.  The installation of 100 oak saplings opened May 4 on the terrace outside Tate Modern. Entitled Beuys’ Acorns, the project was started in 2007 by British artists Ackroyd & Harvey. Its latest display marks 100 years since the birth of Joseph Beuys (1921-86), the hugely influential artist and environmental activist. Beuys’ Acorns is a living sculpture where visitors ca...

Satyajit Ray “Not to have seen the cinema of Satyajit Ray means existing in the world without seeing the sun or the moon,” observed Akira Kurosawa with regards to the Indian master who would have turned one hundred this May. Influenced by the poetic humanism of Jean Renoir and the Italian neorealist movement, Ray self-financed his landmark debut Pather Panchali—the first installment of his internationally celebrated Apu Trilogy, a cycle of richly humane masterworks that traces its title character’s journey from boyhood to maturity. Over the course of a long, remarkably varied career...