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The changing face of British culture, in photos

The people’s city — The British Culture Archive uses photography to ‘document, highlight and preserve’ the transformations of UK society.

  • Photography
  • Daniel Dylan Wray

What is photography’s role in the age of displacement?

Constant motion — With millions of people around the globe forced to flee their homes, images of refugees have become sadly too familiar. But is any of it truly cutting through?

  • Magazine
  • Lewis Bush

The real Ozarks: a portrait of rural life in modern America

Arkansas State — Terra Fondriest documents life in her region with an unmatched intimacy – a challenge in a place awash with stereotypes. But the mother, firefighter and ranch worker is no outsider. She’s simply capturing what she knows.

  • Magazine
  • Terra Fondriest

Surreal shots of sex, death and mysticism in Mexico

Enter the cucaracha — In his latest project, La Cucaracha, photographer Pieter Hugo attempts to unravel the country’s most compelling mysteries.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

A visual history of the Lower East Side

Centre of resistance — Photographer Karen O’Sullivan remembers the neighbourhood’s gritty, pre-gentrification glory days.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

Bruce Davidson’s portrait of post-war Britain

A united kingdom — Travelling across the UK in 1960, the photographer captured a country driven by difference, struggling with post-war trauma and economic hardship.

  • Photography
  • Eva Clifford

Spotlighting the forgotten women of photography

Occupy the void — This month, the London Art Fair is celebrating 10 women who blazed a trail for the generations that followed them.

  • Art
  • Hannah Clugston

A conflict photographer reflects on his time in Iraq

The Grass — Photographer Cengiz Yar has seen things – from the rebels’ battle to oust Assad in Syria, to the human fallout of conflict in Iraq. But it was away from the frontlines that he truly came to value a universal right: having a patch to call one’s own.

  • Magazine
  • Cengiz Yar

How webcams revolutionised pornography and sex work

Content life — A new exhibition examines how cam culture changed the way we communicate, and sparked a new wave of online content.

  • Photography
  • Miss Rosen

Roberta Bayley, the queen of punk, on New York’s raw years

She Just Takes Pictures — In the ’70s, Roberta Bayley moved to the city and bought a camera. Within a year, she was capturing icons like Iggy Pop, Blondie, the Sex Pistols and X-Ray Spex.

  • Music
  • Miss Rosen

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