•  Exhibition: Joel-Peter Witkin: “Everyone Is a Freak”
•  Discovery: Inside John Baer’s Boxes, a Liberated Europe and a Triumphant America
• Exhibition: From Calotype to Pixel: 200 Years of Scottish Photography
• Discovery: Reds & Blues: Romain Coudrier Takes to the Road to Question America's Malaise
•  Book: Guadalupe Laiz: “The Horse is a Reflection of Iceland”
•  Archives: Jon Tonks, On What It Means to Be a Small-Scale Fisher

Joel-Peter Witkin: “Everyone Is a Freak”

Since the 1970s, the American photographer has been building living tableaux where art history collides with religious iconography, satire with the sacred, the powerful with the damned. Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles now devotes a retrospective to his work.

By Guénola Pellen

Inside John Baer’s Boxes, a Liberated Europe and a Triumphant America

In 2021, in the family home in Rhode Island, Andrew Baer unearthed thousands of negatives his father had sealed away in the mid-1950s. This unpublished body of work is now the subject of the very first book devoted to this quiet chronicler of a world rebuilding itself, alongside an exhibition in New York.

By Guénola Pellen

From Calotype to Pixel: 200 Years of Scottish Photography

Like this shot by Wendy McMurdo, Scottish photography has never stopped tampering with reality, the better to tell its country’s story. This summer, Dalkeith Palace, the historic seat of the Dukes of Buccleuch on the edge of Edinburgh, traces two centuries of the medium, from the pioneering calotypes of Hill & Adamson to today’s documentary practice, marking the bicentenary of the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA). A photographer-by-photographer tour of the show.

By Guénola Pellen

Reds & Blues: Romain Coudrier Takes to the Road to Question America's Malaise

Last year, French photographer Romain Coudrier hitchhiked 1,000 kilometres across the American Bible Belt, from Selma to Chicago, to examine the country’s polarization through a red-and-blue duotone that gives the series its title, “Reds & Blues.”

By Guénola Pellen

Water Without the Horizon

In A Perfect Medium, published by MW Editions, physician and cell biologist Bob Farese, Jr. photographs water in all its guises, and from so close that the viewer dissolves into it, losing all sense of scale, space, and time.

By Guénola Pellen

Jon Tonks, On What It Means to Be a Small-Scale Fisher

In the book A Fish Called Julie, photographer Jon Tonks documented the fishing communities of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, UK, immersing himself for eighteen months in their daily rituals and inherited traditions.

Photos by Jon Tonks