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BBC News By Caroline Gall image copyrightEdgar Martins image captionEdgar Martins had started his research at the prison when a 12-hour riot broke out there in 2016 Portuguese photographer Edgar Martins has captured more than 100 images for his project on incarceration and confinement at HMP Birmingham. He deliberately shot abstract pictures after spending three years getting to know inmates and their families during a tumultuous time at the jail before the pandemic hit. His exhibition What Photography and Incarceration Has in Common with an Empty Vase is at Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, in...

Last December, culture360 has launched a new series of articles on  how the arts are adapting to the "New Normal". One year into the global pandemic, this series will present  experiences and stories of resilience, adaptation, and success from the arts sector to the Covid-19 pandemic, with particular focus on differently disabled artists and arts organisations, artists residencies and arts funding.  This article by Veerangana Solanki looks at various art funding models that emerged in three South Asian ASEM countries – Bangladesh, India, Pakistan – to support artists and art practices...

A place of refuge, Lydia Goldblatt’s new series is a gentle contemplation on loss and uncertainty Unequivocally relevant, Fugue is an empathetic lockdown project that lenses themes of family and motherhood. Words “Photographing felt liberating and intuitive,” says Lydia Goldblatt of the moment she first picked up a camera. It was while visiting her father’s birthplace with her family that she initially laid her hands on one, before being completely taken aback by the medium’s immediacy in documenting “things newly seen, even if the picture itself turned out to be rubbish.” At th...