Internationally renowned photographer Vanessa Winship named emerging artist Phoebe Kiely as her pick of new talent, and the West Coast Photo Festival will bring them together for the first time Continue reading…
‘I went wherever there was fighting’: how Sam the Wheels filmed Brixton ablaze
From the tumult of the uprisings to everyday scenes, Clovis Salmon’s jerky camera captured Black British life. As his work hits the big screen, we meet the 94-year-old known as Sam the Wheels‘I used to keep my camera like this,” says Clovis Salmon, put…
The Guardian view on the Turner prize: too worthy for its own good? | Editorial
The competition was set up to be populist. In its current introspective mood, though, it risks pushing away the publicThe Turner prize this year is not about celebrating, or creating, big names in the British art scene. Instead, the shortlist exhibitio…
Turner prize 2021; Summer Exhibition 2021 review – there can be no winner
Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry; Royal Academy, LondonSocial activism not art is the benchmark of a collective-juggling Turner prize. And Yinka Shonibare begins to shake things up at art’s annual pro-am fixtureFirst! That is the exultant boast for this y…
My frame is true: new wave posters – in pictures
Andrew Krivine began collecting music industry flyers and posters in 1977 on his annual trip from the US to see family in London. “I’d go on expeditions to Camden Market, Rough Trade, Stiff Records and even brazenly walk into the headquarters of Virgin…
Meet the real Helen Levitt, New York’s most intimate chronicler
A retrospective of the US street photographer overturns conventional wisdom about her work, revealing it as political and human, as well as demonstrating her acute eye for the unusual and telling imageThe American poet and cultural critic David Levi St…
Original Observer Photography
Anthony Joshua’s defeat, Bond star Lashana Lynch, and Mercury prize winner Arlo Parks – the best photography commissioned by the Observer in September 2021 Continue reading…
The compassionate vision of photojournalist Colin Jones – in pictures
The Royal Ballet dancer Colin Jones became one of the most celebrated photojournalists of postwar Britain, covering subjects as diverse as working life in the industrial north-east, the English National Ballet, the Alabama race riots and African-Caribb…
Summation of Force: capturing the magic of cricket – in pictures
The Summation of Force, a film installation by Trent Parke and Narelle Autio, uncovers the essence of cricket through artistic motion studies. Stills reveal a glimpse into the creative process behind the work Continue reading…
Twenty photographs of the week
Haitian migrants attempt to reach the US, the Taliban in Kabul, wildfires in California and fuel shortages in England – the most striking images from around the world this week Continue reading…