Photoworks

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PhotoworksCultureDebmalya Ray Choudhuri – Book Review In this article, I will discuss two books, one recent and one slightly older, by authors from different parts of the world, each approaching the medium differently, and how both have shaped my…

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PhotoworksCulturePhotoworks Digital Residencies: Carolina Semprucci In Conversation with Debmalya Ray Choudhuri In this conversation, Carolina and Deb retrace Deb’s digital residency at Photoworks, reflecting on a practice shaped by recurring themes of love, loss, gender and migration and a strong diaristic…

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PhotoworksCultureThey Try to Pretend the Past Was Other Than It Was: Bones of Our Land and the Politics of Restoration Amandine Vabre Chau, 2 October 2026 On the northern slopes of Tai Mo Shan, Hong Kong’s highest peak, long-concealed tea terraces re-emerged after a hill fire.

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PhotoworksCultureCommunity Submission: Underwood by Barkat Mehra Barkat Mehra, 02 October 2026 Underwood is a manifesto of familial ties, admiration and awakening. This project, set within the walls of a century-old house in south-east England, engages in a…

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PhotoworksCultureUn/Stable Pages Amin Yousefi, 2 October 2026 A photograph and a photobook are very different things. This sounds obvious, but the distinction is often treated as secondary, as though a photobook were simply a…

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PhotoworksCultureTranscending the body Echo Callaghan, 2 October 2026 Every second of our lives is mediated by the body. It is the interlocutor of our lived experience, we are bound by its capabilities and limitations.

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PhotoworksCultureAntinomies of Remembrance Deborah Ireland, 2 October 2026 Antinomies is a word Jermaine Francis uses in his work to describe a real or apparent contradiction between two conclusions, both of which appear equally logical or…

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PhotoworksCultureDebmalya Ray Choudhuri Image Gallery The Weight of the Earth “Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick.

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PhotoworksCultureNicholas JR. White Image Gallery Nicholas J.R. White is a photographer based on the Isle of Skye in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland.

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PhotoworksCultureWhat We Know, How we Know Nienke Coers14 August 2026 Not every truth arrives as fact. Some emerge through memory, myth, intuition, or community – taking root in the body, resurfacing across time, texturing the surface of the…

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo