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SOURCE

Archived since Summer 1992
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120 issues

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:

Hostile: Philosopher Chris Bertram and former picture editor Alexia Singh discuss how immigration is represented and whether this matches reality. Simon Brown talks about his experience as an interiors photographer.

PORTFOLIOS: Conor Horgan has photographed the tent encampments of International Protection Applicants in Dublin and the barriers that have been erected to fence them in or keep them out. Colin Graham introduces the work noting the ‘forced absence of humanity which haunts the work’. Jaywick in Essex, is the focus of David J Shaw’s work. The village sits within the constituency of Nigel Farage and has been described negatively in the media. Shaw has connected with Jaywick’s community and produced a more nuanced representation of it beyond the hostile headlines. Ruby Wallis has developed a collaborative project with International Protection Applicants living in Lismore. Exploring the castle’s walled gardens at night, participants have gone looking for plants they recognised from home. They recall the plants' healing, culinary, and sometimes ritual uses, and the memories they carry, which appear in the captions for the images.

REVIEWS: Exhibitions of the work of Alfred Buckham, daredevil photographer, Lee Miller, Joy Gregory and Yuki Kihara. Book reviews: Hilary Roberts' 'The Camera at War', Martin Parr's Autobiography, The Lettrists and Photography, Hito Steyerl's essays, Tessa Boffin and more 

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  • First Issue: Summer 1992
  • Latest Issue: Winter 2025/26
  • Issue Count: 120