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‘Walking Through the Darkness’ at Centre for Contemporary Photography grapples with the paradoxes of darkness, technically and thematically.

An exhibition in Switzerland explores the intersection between photobook publishing and art forms that combine text and image.

A page from the Chloe Dewe Mathews's Thames Log © Chloe Dewe Mathews Over the past year, the River Thames has been a source of solace for many Londoners. This ever-changing waterway snakes through the centre of the city, dividing it into north and south while dramatically shapeshifting with a tidal ebb and flow that pays no heed to human dramas. Now, 12 months since London’s first lockdown, the Thames is the inspiration for a number of new projects that celebrate the power of this mighty river and its ability to fuel imaginations, transform its surroundings and provide ...

8 Photobooks by Contemporary Women Photographers From Justine Kurland’s imagined runaways to Deana Lawson’s dramatic portraiture, here are essential titles by today’s leading artists. Deana Lawson, Featured - March 4, 2021 Since its founding in 1952, Aperture has elevated the voices of women artists and published important works by female photographers, including inspiring volumes by Nan Goldin, Deana Lawson, Sally Mann, and more. Now, in celebration of Women’s History Month, we’ve gathered eight essential titles by today’s leading contemporary women artists. Chloe Dewe Mathews...

Shot between 2011–16, Chloe Dewe Mathews’ Thames Log traces the world-famous river from its easily missed, disputed source in a field in Gloucester to its more expansive end in the North Sea. The photographer focuses on rituals, from baptism to pagan ceremonies, and from reading the Sunday paper to teenage rites of passage, and in doing so, she suggests something paradoxical. Just as rituals are repetitive but never quite the same, the Thames is both centuries old and ever-changing. ‘Heraclitus’ axiom that you can’t step into the same river twice has become so familiar that it’s ...