© David Moore Moore’s pictures of Midlands housing estates pioneered kitchen sink realism in colour. Revisiting them is a chance for archival control and new representation, he tells Louise Benson The first thing that hits you in David Moore’s Pictures from the Real World is the colours. Vivid blues, oranges and greens accentuated by the heavy flash that bounces off his subjects, inviting us into the homes of strangers. Could there be clues to their lives found in these furnishings and decorations, in the heavy cotton curtains and scratches on the wall? It was during Moore’s time as a student ..read more

What started as an investigation by Kateryna Radchenko into the morbid history of a former Soviet uranium extraction site in Ukraine, resulted in a picture of community and, now, survival Zhovti Vody is a small town in Ukraine’s Kamianske region. Its name – literally translating to ‘yellow waters’ – was ascribed in 1895, due to its serene location on the Zhovta River. However, when the country was part of the Soviet Union, classified government correspondence referenced it by a different name – Mailbox 28 – to keep its location a secret. The town was then home to a key uranium extraction site ..read more

Reading Time: 5 minutes Among illustrating the emotional and chaotic reality of becoming a mother, Galdi’s new book – Sorry I Gave Birth I Disappeared But Now I’m Back – is ultimately a story of unconditional love “Every image in the book represents a feeling,” says Andi Galdi. “In fact, the book isn’t organised chronologically, but led by emotions.” With 224 pages, the images form a raw, fleshy, sticky, bulbous, euphoric story of motherhood and the birth of Galdi’s first child. Joy is juxtaposed with fear, tenderness with exhaustion. In one image, a swan is pictured from above, with its head ..read more

Reading Time: 5 minutes Spanning 20 years, Permissions is a book wherein the cycles, rituals, and remnants of family life are scooped up, shuffled, and then set free A wooden fence cuts across a dense hedgerow, dappled golden in the evening light. From above, sunlight cascades in white stripes, marked out by smoke which rises from the ground. Wherein lies a blaze – a burning wooden frame, by now blackened to charcoal, its silhouetted skeleton crumbling into the earth. No anonymous object is this, but the artist’s own forsaken treasure: a childhood bed, housed for decades in the Suffolk family ..read more

Reading Time: 4 minutes All images © Johny Pitts. Travelling with the poet Roger Robinson, Pitts draws on poetry, rhythm and intuition to resolve a candid image of the home    For his latest work, photographer, writer and radio presenter Johny Pitts drove around the British coastline with poet Roger Robinson. The two distil their journey into a book of expressionist visuals and poignant texts which reflect their observations of contemporary Black British culture. Home is Not a Place, published by Harper Collins, mixes different series and timelines, and functions as an extensio ..read more

Reading Time: 4 minutes The Manx photographer spent decades highlighting the plight of working-class communities in northern England. A long-overdue retrospective reveals the enduring potency of that work   A retrospective of British photographer Chris Killip’s work opened this weekend at The Photographers’ Gallery in London. The exhibition features over 140 works, including images from each of his major series, as well as several lesser-known ones. To coincide with the show, Thames & Hudson will publish a monograph, titled Chris Killip, which similarly traces the photographer’s illus ..read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes “It’s about lesbian alt. culture, it’s about growing up, and having a weird conflicted background – it’s about navigating youth in Northern Ireland,” says the 24-year-old artist, as she presents her first solo show in London  Audrey Gillespie’s images are charged with a distinct energy. Characterised by neon lights, double-exposures, and low shutter speeds, the artist describes the aesthetic as “party atmospheres that are a bit sombre”. Picturing her close circle of friends, as well as strangers who later became friends, the images belong to an ongoing diaristic se ..read more

Reading Time: 5 minutes This article is printed in the latest issue of British Journal of Photography magazine: Tradition & Identity. Available to purchase at thebjpshop.com. Selected by Merve Arkunlar, editor of 212 Magazine, we profile the work of Ekin Özbiçer, Ci Demi, Oğulcan Arslan and Kıvılcım S Güngörün Introduction by Merve Arkunlar Turkish director and photographer Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s depictions of my homeland are a masterclass in local, visual storytelling. His auteur films and the panoramic photographs collected in his book Turkey Cinemascope (2015) capture the authentic deli ..read more

Reading Time: 4 minutes “I wanted to disrupt the viewing experience in a slightly ambiguous, obtuse way, to create figures like ghosts,” says Francis, whose ongoing work urges viewers to re-evaluate who is considered the natural inhabitant of English landscapes Born in Birmingham, Jermaine Francis grew up in the 1980s in Tipton, a working-class, former industrial town in the West Midlands of England. He studied at Walsall Art College and Derby College (now University of Derby) then moved to London, where he has carved out a career in photography. He now works with organisations such as i-D, Be ..read more

Reading Time: 6 minutes Gap in the Hedge © Dan Wood. This article is printed in the latest issue of British Journal of Photography magazine: Tradition & Identity. Available to purchase at thebjpshop.com. Over the past two decades the social landscape of Britain has shifted with many provincial regions facing economic hardship and a loss of belonging. It is these places – where Brexit resonated – that many photographers with an affinity to the area are now turning their lens Dan Wood grew up in Bridgend, a small Welsh market town 20 miles west of Cardiff. The photographer fondly recalls ..read more