Diane Smyth

2 weeks ago | 1854.photography | Diane Smyth

Welcome to European Kinship: Eastern European Perspective, a special editorial project marking an exhibition of the same name at the Capa Center All images © Karolina Wojtas. Karolina WojtasMade in PolandMade in Poland is scrawled on a woman’s behind, the ‘i’ dotted with a love heart; it is messy, irreverent and funny, like Wojtas’ images.

3 weeks ago | 1854.photography | Diane Smyth

After 18 years at C/O Berlin, and three years setting up the fledgling FOTO ARSENAL WIEN, Felix Hoffmann is spearheading its move into a large new home in a historic postwar building“We are still under construction, but we’re aiming to open on 21 March,” says Felix Hoffmann.

1 month ago | 1854.photography | Diane Smyth

This article is printed in the latest issue of British Journal of Photography magazine, Activism & Protest, delivered direct to you with an 1854 Subscription. BJP is saddened to hear that photographer and visual artist Nona Faustine has passed away. In celebration of her life and work, we are republishing our interview on White Shoes, her alternative history of the USA and its slave tradeWall Street is famous the world over for its financial markets.

1 month ago | 1854.photography | Diane Smyth

Women Marching, from EL GOBIERNO TE ODIA [The Government Hates You] © Christopher Gregory-Rivera Questions around surveillance and control circle around the photography at FORMAT Festival, now on show in Derby FORMAT International Photography Festival returns with the theme “Conflicted” and a programme which “focuses on the many struggles, tensions, and conflicts that define our time”, according to Jodi Kwok, curator of FORMAT and QUAD arts centre, and Jenna Eady, FORMAT co-ordinator. “We...

1 month ago | 1854.photography | Diane Smyth

All images © Peter Mitchell As Peter Mitchell’s retrospective opens at The Photographer’s Gallery in London, we look back at editor Diane Smyth’s coverage of the show’s opening in Leeds in October, 2024This summer Peter Mitchell gets a long-overdue retrospective in the UK – in the gallery where he showed his first exhibition. Nothing Lasts Forever is at Leeds Art Gallery until 06 October and includes work made over half a century, much of it in Leeds itself.