Documentary photography portraits

A selection of the pictures on show at this year's Portrait Salon.

advertising and editorial portrait photographer based in Denver

My series Masc interrogates ideas of contemporary queer masculinity, outside of the heteronormative and hegemonic ideal. Masc as a whole was borne out of my personal experience reconciling my non normative identity - so much of my personal discovery was fuelled by my interactions with my contemporaries, so I sought to explore and record that. The end result is inexplicably bound to the process of medium format analogue photography, that carried the drama, depth and subtlety I felt the…

5 Tips For The Aspiring Photojournalist || Documentary photography, street photography and photojournalism are closely related disciplines that share at least a few theoretical, practical and aesthetic ideologies, but what sets photojournalism apart is pretty simple — newsworthiness. Newsworthiness, in turn, embodies these three main elements: timeliness, objectivity, and narrative. The goal of photojournalistic work is to capture…

The photographer discusses her new book, a photographic resource for kids, Eyes Open, and the original 1970s publication that inspired it

‘In photography, I have found a language that suits me,’ Martine Franck once said. The late documentary and portrait photographer is the subject of a retrospective at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson’s new Paris home in Le Marais

The Youth Photography Awards 2020 aims to support young people's wellbeing.

Ellen watching through the window, Máze, Norway 2005 Céline Clanet (b. 1977, France) lives in Paris. A graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie of Arles in 1999, she works t…

The UK-based photographer and filmmaker shares an exclusive look at her latest documentary, Youth of The Rural North.

Photographer Danielle Levitt spent years photographing sub-cultures of young people — from punks to goths to jocks.