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In photos: Bin jousting, happiness and wholesome humour at Bloodstock 2025

Derbyshire doom — At first glance, the UK’s heaviest metal festival may not seem like a particularly warm affair. But metalheads are some of the nicest music fans in the country, and Chris Bethell was there to capture the fun and funnies of the weekend.

  • Music
  • Isaac Muk
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Throwback portraits of the UK’s first punks

Punks 1978-1980 — While working as a photographer in the army, Wayne “Spike” Large would moonlight as a punk on the weekends. His new photobook revisits the characters that he captured from the genre’s heyday.

  • Music
  • Miss Rosen
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An insider’s view of California’s outdoor cruising spots

Outside Sex — Daniel Case’s new photobook explores the public gay sex scene, through a voyeuristic lens, often hidden just below plain sight.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
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© Daido Moriyama Photo Foundation

Daido Moriyama’s first four photobooks to be published in English for the first time

Quartet — A new anthology collates Japan, A Photo Theater, A Hunter, Farewell Photography and Light and Shadow, alongside journal entries and memoranda.

  • Culture
  • Isaac Muk
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Amos Badertscher’s crucial capturing of Baltimore’s queer underground

Images and Stories — A new survey of the photographer’s work presents his archive, which documents and preserves the city’s LGBTQ+ history and the stories of people living on the fringes of its society. 

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
Woman with long red hair holds white sign reading "DYKES 4 TRANS LIBERATION" at crowded street protest with other demonstrators and banners.

Love and rage at the record shattering London Trans+ Pride 2025

Dismantle the cis-tem — With over 100,000 attendees, the Saturday march was the largest trans pride event ever in world history. Cheer Up Luv’s Eliza Hatch captured the action, and recounts its powerful energy.

  • Activism
  • Eliza Hatch / @cheerupluv
Two people at street demonstration: person in yellow holding non-binary pride flag, person in black hoodie with transgender pride flag.

Euphoric portraits of queer joy and resistance at Trans Pride Brighton

Let us piss — Now over a decade old, the event grew to become Europe’s largest trans pride march. In a year when trans rights have come under the microscope more than ever, we went to this year’s edition, finding grassroots unity and collective rage.

  • Activism
  • Ella Glossop
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Remembering the radical anti-nuclear Greenham Women’s Peace Camp

Life at the Fence — In the early ’80s, a women’s only camp at an RAF site in Berkshire was formed to protest the threat of nuclear arms. Janine Wiedel’s new photobook revisits its anti-establishment setup and people.

  • Activism
  • Miss Rosen
Boxing trainer in black tracksuit instructing young boxer wearing headgear in gym ring under bright lights.

Warm, tender photos of London’s amateur boxing scene

Where The Fire Went — Sana Badri’s new photobook captures the wider support networks and community spirit around the grassroots sport, as well as the significance of its competitions to the athletes who take part.

  • Sport
  • Isaac Muk
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Capturing what life is really like at Mexico’s border with the USA

Border Documents — Across four years, Arturo Soto photographed life in Juárez, the city of his father’s youth, to create a portrait of urban and societal change, memory, and fluid national identity.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

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