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Animalograms

Back in 2005, Zana Briski was standing on stage at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, as Leonardo DiCaprio read out her name. Her film Born into Brothels, a documentary about the children of prostitutes in Calcutta’s red-light district,

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Mother Earth

At first glance, it’s hard to distinguish whether a Mats Andersson print is a painting or photograph. He blends the abstract with the surreal, resulting in landscape imagery that can simultaneously evoke feelings of unease, tranquillity, forbidding and calm. His

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I’d rather take a photograph than be one

‘Oh, darling, aren’t you excited?’ Those were the words a shining-eyed Lee Miller exclaimed to her lover Roland Penrose as German bombs rained on London and anti-aircraft guns clattered around their ears. Penrose found the question bizarre, but for Lee

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From dubstep to Dubai

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life, said the author Samuel Johnson. The same could be said of many of the world’s great cities: New York, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo… Photographer Alan Schaller grew up in

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