A protester in Tiananmen Square, Beijing in 1989. Photo Stuart Franklin
Photography has the power to capture more than just pretty landscapes and family portraits. It can capture history and oftentimes the emotion of actually being there.
Piecing together Vivian Maier’s life can easily evoke Churchill’s famous quote about the vast land of Tsars and commissars that lay to the east. A person who fit the stereotypical European sensibilities of an independent liberated woman, accent and all, yet born in New York City.
Everyday nearly 3 million people visit Istiklal Avenue which was called Cadde-i Kebir (Grand Avenue) during the Ottoman Period
The new exhibition at Photographers’ Gallery, London, devoted to the photography of William S. Burroughs reveals several sides to the writer that are rarely included in the wildman mythology.
Where Children Sleep – stories of diverse children around the world, told through portraits and pictures of their bedrooms by James Mollison.
They are barely bigger than a toilet cubicle.