British Journal of Photography
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7895 - May 2020 - Modern Nude
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British Journal of Photography, the world’s longest-running photography title, has been showcasing pioneers of the art form since 1854. Through the lenses of world-class photographers, British Journal of Photography explores rich and timely stories of art, culture, politics and society.
British Journal of Photography is published quarterly, with each issue made manifest across 196 pages of three different paper types. Each issue is standardised across a collection of representative editorial sections: Agenda, Projects, In the Studio, that issue’s thematic exploration, Features and Intelligence. It includes a range of long-form, exclusive interviews with esteemed photographers, curators and industry experts, opinion-led pieces and portfolios, as well as short reviews and accessible quick reads.
British Journal of Photography is published quarterly, with each issue made manifest across 196 pages of three different paper types. Each issue is standardised across a collection of representative editorial sections: Agenda, Projects, In the Studio, that issue’s thematic exploration, Features and Intelligence. It includes a range of long-form, exclusive interviews with esteemed photographers, curators and industry experts, opinion-led pieces and portfolios, as well as short reviews and accessible quick reads.
Latest Issue:
“I’ve always said that in Britain, it’s the politics of between the sheets that scares the living daylights out of everyone,” Mark Sealy tells BJP editor Diane Smyth in our upcoming issue, Body Talk. Smyth and Sealy discuss the 2026 Triennial of Photography Hamburg, which he has themed Alliance, Infinity, Love – In the Face of the Other, and which includes queer Nigerian artist Rotimi Fani-Kayode, whose image is featured on this issue’s cover.
Fani-Kayode, born in 1955 in Lagos, Nigeria, came to the UK as a child and later studied in the US, before returning to England to pursue photography. He also helped to found Autograph.
Sealy’s curation is inspired by bell hooks’ 1999 publication all about love; the curator is “not thinking about Valentine’s Day-type love, bringing people chocolates and flowers”, he says, but more fundamentally about how we relate to each other and the world – and photography’s role in doing so.
Fani-Kayode, born in 1955 in Lagos, Nigeria, came to the UK as a child and later studied in the US, before returning to England to pursue photography. He also helped to found Autograph.
Sealy’s curation is inspired by bell hooks’ 1999 publication all about love; the curator is “not thinking about Valentine’s Day-type love, bringing people chocolates and flowers”, he says, but more fundamentally about how we relate to each other and the world – and photography’s role in doing so.
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