After setting out to photograph one of the USA’s most stubborn invasive weeds, Karey Walter found herself pulled into a stranger, wilder journey. Jon Stapley reports.

When Paul Reid quit his humbrum job and became a professional photographer, he forged the career he’d always dreamed of. In B+W 302 he talks to Roderick Field about building a community and the launch of his first book, ‘Monochrome Portraits’.

To see the early work of any artist is a valuable insight into their blind alleys, moments of inspiration and final reckoning, but Martin Parr knew from the start exactly where he was going. Elizabeth Roberts reports on a new publication.