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SOURCE is the essential magazine for intelligent and independent discussion of contemporary photography. Each issue brings you the latest news, portfolios by emerging and established photographers, well researched feature articles, reviews of the most important exhibitions and books, and specialist columns offering deep analysis on various photography related subjects.

Published since 1992, Source is a quality quarterly magazine that provides readers with a critical discussion of photographic practice and an appreciation of the importance of photography in the wider culture. Your subscription will include access to over a dozen back issues of the magazine.

Photographers recently featured in Source include: Victor Burgin, Hannah Collins, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Sarah Dobai, Richard Gilligan, Emma Hart, Anthony Haughey, John Hilliard, Karen Knorr, Sirkka-Liisa Knottinen, Hew Locke, Mari Mahr, Trish Morrissey, Suzanne Mooney, Wendy McMurdo, Mark Neville, Roger Palmer, Steven Pippin, Paul Seawright, Simon Starling, John Stezaker, Jane and Louise Wilson and Donovan Wylie.

Our regular contributors include leading writers on contemporary photography such as David Campany, David Bate, David Brittain, Pavel Buchler, Stephen Bull, Justin Carville, Mark Durden, David Evans, Colin Graham, Alison Green, Roger Hargreaves, Rebecca Hopkinson, Daniel Jewesbury, Martha Langford, Anthony Luvera, Mary Warner Marien, Alicia Miller, Matt Packer, Eugenie Shinkle, Lucy Soutter, Ian Walker, Edward Welch and Judith Williamson.

Latest Issue:

IMAGINATION: Alejandro León Cannock writes about the role photography has in imagining a better world. A manifesto for photographers who work collaboratively. Claire Anscomb shows the many choices that photographers make, and says that working within these choices gives play to the imagination, something that could be true of AI genertated images as well

PORTFOLIOS:  Ryan Moule’s The Cloud and its Shadow are derived from videos uploaded to the internet with no views and no metadata. These unseen images have been made into ambrotypes, transforming the most intangible digital traces into physical objects. Sarah Jones’ new work Glass Doors are studio based images of flowers, vitrines and other singular objects photographed in a dense black setting. They refer to mythic mirror worlds without colour. Justin Partyka has been photographing in rural France where he finds surreal residue of the past alongside a dream-like present.

REVIEWS: Exhibitions of work by Hiroshi Sugimoto, Daido Moriyama, on gender and ecology, African Photography. Books about the migrant experience, Oliver Chanarin, Arthur Tress, Mark Ruwedel and much more...

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  • First Issue: Summer 1992
  • Latest Issue: Winter 2023
  • Issue Count: 113
  • Page Count: 8,590
  • Published: Quarterly
  • ISSN: 2059-6790