LL Cool J Cut Creator and Brian Latture, New York City, 1987. All images © Janette Beckman A new retrospective showcases the career of Janette Beckman, who documented youth subcultures from punk to hip-hop through to today’s street activism Born in London in 1959, Janette Beckman photographed the underground punk scene in real time, documenting the likes of The Clash, Sex Pistols and The Jam for music magazines such as The Face and Melody Maker, before moving to New York in 1983. There she continued to photograph emerging musicians and cultural movements, shooting unvarnished portraits of key ..read more

All images © Taisuke Yoshida for BJP We visit a bright apartment in the 17th arrondissement of Paris administered by DRAC, an organisation which supports artists Hanako Murakami lives in an unassuming white 1970s building in the 17th arrondissement of Paris, near the bustling Marché des Batignolles. It conceals a calm and beautiful space inside. The two-storey apartment, which she shares with her husband and daughter, is an ‘atelier-logement’ fortuitously acquired through DRAC (Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles), a French organisation that encourages artistic creation. DRAC has an ..read more

All images © Colin Pantall An upcoming workshop in London with Colin Pantall and Simon Bainbridge will help photographers communicate their ideas through writing They’re often hilariously bad. And they’re notoriously hard to write. Especially about yourself. But a clear, succinct statement is an absolute necessity to identify what’s personal and particular about your photography, and if you care about giving people a way into your work.  Which is why we’ve joined forces with our former editor, Simon Bainbridge, and Colin Pantall, a photographer, writer and lecturer, to host a one-day wor ..read more

F.D. Hampson, Panama Hats, from a Sloan-Force Co. Catalogue, ca. 1916 Tracing an alternative history of photography by considering product shots, a new show suggests an intrinsic link between consumerism and image-making August Sander, WH Fox Talbot, Margaret Bourke-White, Irving Penn, and André Kertész: all are huge names in photography, but not usually associated with product shots. Now The Met Fifth Avenue in New York is changing that with an exhibition charting an alternative history of photography, stretching back to the start of the medium to show how modernism and commercial image-maki ..read more

Thomas Hoepker at home, USA. New York. 2012 © Christopher Anderson. Courtesy Magnum Photos The German photojournalist spent over six decades travelling the globe, capturing everything from Korean War veterans to the smallpox epidemic in 1960s Bihar When West German magazine Kristall sent photojournalist Thomas Hoepker on assignment to the US in 1963, it was with the terse instruction to “Take a look around.” Accompanied by writer Rolf Winter, the 27-year-old Hoepker embarked on a road trip from New York to Los Angeles and back again, capturing everything in between with his Leica camera. He ..read more

MSLS_000354, 2019. From An Electronic Legacy © François Bellabas. Courtesy of the artist / ADAPG, Paris Audrey Illouz’s subtle selection for the Arles Discovery Award Louis Roederer Fondation highlights a prevalent unease among the artists this year I arrive in Arles early on 01 July, as counts from the first round of the snap election are coming in; it’s clear the Rassemblement National have won a historic share, and now begins a tense period before 07 July, when another vote decides whether the Far Right leads the government. It’s a strange time to be in France and, though politicians are b ..read more

All images © Taysir Batniji. Courtesy of Loose Joints Publishing For two years, Batniji took screenshots of the glitchy video calls he made to his family back in Gaza, now compiled into a book Born in Gaza in 1966, Taysir Batniji studied art at An-Najah University in Nablus, Palestine. In 1994 he was awarded a fellowship for the School of Fine Arts of Bourges, France, and since then he has divided his time between the two countries, and developed a multimedia practice. Batniji made the series Disruptions between 24 April 2015 and 23 June 2017 by screenshotting digitally degraded WhatsApp call ..read more

From Beijing Silvermine Collection © Thomas Sauvin. Courtesy the artists and Vernacular Social Club Founded by Jean-Marie Donat and peers, the group takes up the cause of non-professional photographers, offering a sociological reading of everyday images “A lot of people I speak to work with photographs by professional photographers,” says Jean-Marie Donat. “For me, it’s so important to consider photographs by people who are not professionals. Without good framing, without good light, without composition, but you [still] have so much information in this type of image. To see one portrait shot ..read more

Untitled #4, from the series Parallel Universes, 2006 © Randa Mirza. Courtesy Tanit Gallery. On show in the exhibition Beirutopia. All images courtesy the artists and Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles The most respected photofestival in the world continues to seek out new voices, says director Christoph Wiesner “A festival is a perpetual work in counter-relief: Beneath the Surface – the title of this 55th edition – is in search of multiple voice(s) and alternative stories,” says Christoph Wiesner, director of Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles. “The festival has always defined ..read more

A couple and their baby on Tarfaya’s main boulevard. All images © Imane Djamil Moroccan One to Watch Imane Djamil brings a photojournalistic eye to emotive and misunderstood migration stories The two coastlines are only 60 miles apart; both have similarly beautiful beaches and sun-drenched dunes but, while one is a tourist hotspot frequented by flocks of western holidaymakers, the other is a quiet, forgotten place with just a couple of grocery shops and some long-time residents. Imane Djamil’s Slow Days in the Fortunate Isle draws these parallels, while purposefully obfuscating the border bet ..read more