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Maika Elan: A Gentle Curiosity

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VIETNAM: Focusing on people at the margins of society, these relaxed domestic moments explore, without sensationalism, the intimate companionship that is a foundation of our shared human experience.

25 February 2023 Asia

Colin Gray: Restaging the Parents

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UNITED KINGDOM: Whimsical, poignant, fantastical, dark… these family photos restage the complex nature of parenting and the domestic dynamic, from ageing and the shift in mutual dependence, to ultimate departure.

4 February 2023 Europe

Lebohang Kganye: In Search of Light

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SOUTH AFRICA: a remarkable synthesis of structure, texture, and authenticity exploring the triangular relationship between history, memory, and community storytelling.

28 January 2023 Africa

Angelika Kollin: The Worth of Being

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ESTONIA / AFRICA: Images of love and loss delicately exploring the essential mystery of human interconnection.

26 November 2022 Africa, Europe

Mohammad Shahnewaz Khan: Of Hope and Humanity

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BANGLADESH: A humanitarian photographer who not only documents injustice and inequity in the world, but also explores his own imperfection with poignant honesty.

5 November 2022 Asia

Michael Young: Seeing Through Desire

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USA: Exploring the interplay of context and desire, and the evolving ways in which desire might be reconciled with an initially hostile environment.

1 October 2022 Americas

Frank Rodick: A Marvellous Compulsion

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CANADA: Personal and historical trauma inspire a creative practice unafraid of the twilight world of the unconscious that lies beneath the veneer of rational civilisation.

17 September 2022 Americas

Robin Schwartz: The Communion of Animals

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USA: Spanning two decades, a mother and daughter explore the deep connection between people and their animal companions.

10 September 2022 Americas

Renée C Byer: Catalyst for Change

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USA: Pulitzer-prize-winner Renée C Byer reveals how photography and journalism used together can catalyse action in the face of escalating inequality at home and abroad.

27 August 2022 Americas

Diego Moreno: The Rebel and His Monsters

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MEXICO: Named one of the top twenty talents worldwide by FOAM magazine, Diego Moreno’s monsters have much to show us about familial love and about domestic abuse.

11 June 2022 Americas

Allison Plass: Contours of Masculinity

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USA: A mother’s delicate reflections on masculinity within the everyday intimacy of family life as boys become men and men become middle-aged.

4 June 2022 Americas

Polixeni Papapetrou: Tales from Elsewhere

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AUSTRALIA: Fables that are at once personal and universal, familial and public, recounting childhood perspicacity and adult frailty far the here and now.

14 May 2022 Oceania

Andy Wiener: The Story Behind the Mask

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UNITED KINGDOM: Conjuring the familial past and a satirical future through the evocative power of photographic masks.

12 March 2022 Europe

Roberto Tondopó: A Photographic Act of Atonement

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MEXICO: The fluidity of domestic intimacy explored through the lens of childhood imagination and transformational community ritual.

15 January 2022 Americas

Dona Schwartz: On the Nest

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USA / CANADA: A visual ethnographer, Dona Schwartz photographs expectant parents and empty-nesters marking those moments when each couple stands outside the gates of family life.

9 October 2021 Americas

Massimo Branca: The Household Beneath the Street

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ROMANIA: a community of homeless people come together to find companionship, shelter and a degree of mutual sustainability in a network of tunnels under the city of Bucharest.

25 September 2021 Europe

Diana Blok: The Beautiful Imperfect

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NETHERLANDS: Portraits that speak to the entanglement of individual, interpersonal and collective identity, the mutability of the body, and the fluidity of being.

18 September 2021 Europe

Viktoria Sorochinski: The Mystery of Human Connection

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UKRAINE: Psychological dramas that play out the emotional interior of their protagonists: the aching desire to connect that can never be fully realised.

17 July 2021 Europe

Daniel W. Coburn: The Enigma of Family Connection

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USA: Emerging from person crisis, these images unfold a domestic conversation around the paradox of family ties and the quest for redemption.

8 May 2021 Americas

Erika Diettes: A Poet of Grief and Humanity

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COLOMBIA: In addressing the trauma resulting from the ongoing multilateral armed conflict in her country, Erika Diettes focuses not on violence but on bearing witness to the grief of survivors.

24 April 2021 Americas

Margaret Mitchell: Of Love & Imperfection

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UNITED KINGDOM: Environmental portraiture exploring family ties across three generations in an area of high socio-economic deprivation.

3 April 2021 Europe

The 12 Days of…: Revisiting the Festive Season

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INTERNATIONAL: Impressions of Christmas and the New Year through the kaleidoscopic lens of artists from Asia, the Americas, Europe and Oceania.

19 December 2020 Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania

Sam Harris: Postcards from Home

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AUSTRALIA: A successful celebrity photographer discovers real inspiration nearer to home when he emigrates from London to make a new life in rural Western Australia.

21 November 2020 Oceania

Wendy Sacks: Water and the Art of Healing

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USA: Employing the symbolic and physical qualities of water, Wendy Sacks makes photographs that speak of the complex nature of human relationships, both light and dark.

31 October 2020 Americas

The Mirror of Three Kingdoms: Shanxi Family Portraits

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CHINA: Reflections on the meanings and value of family photo archives in traditional homes in Shanxi Province.

10 October 2020 Asia

Ciro Battiloro: An Unexpected Beauty

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ITALY: Spending extended periods with poor and itinerant families, Ciro Battiloro discovers, beneath the domestic discomfort and social neglect, a tenacious humanity and a love that turns “despair into delicate sweetness”.

29 August 2020 Europe

Ellen Jantzen: The Quest for Deep Meaning

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USA: Ellen Jantzen uses digital imaging processes to synthesise a visual language through which to evoke the existential conundrums of our place in Nature and the impermanence of life.

25 July 2020 Americas

Daniel Schumann: At Home with Love and Loss

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GERMANY: Images that speak with quiet compassion of the impermanence that marks us out as human, and the dignity to be afforded to all, regardless of situation, apparent difference, or stage of life.

18 July 2020 Europe

Hillerbrand + Magsamen: The Stuff of Dreams

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USA: Repurposing their household possession to create a mandala or build a spaceship, Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen use photography, video, performance and installation to explore the paradoxes of the American Dream.

11 April 2020 Americas

Tatjana Plitt: The Beautiful Mundane

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AUSTRALIA: An unconventional approach to portraiture that subverts clichés and stereotypes to emphasise the value of real human relationships over fantasy or caricature.

28 March 2020 Oceania

Thomas Friedrich Schaefer: In Search of Lost Time

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GERMANY: Experiential space and resonant fragments of childhood memory brought to life in precise yet elusive detail.

18 January 2020 Europe
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