Diane Smyth

1 week ago | 1854.photography | Diane Smyth

The Cock (kiss), 2022. All images © Wolfgang Tillmans With a huge exhibition in the Pompidou Centre’s vacated Public Information Library, the artist also asks how we might consider the present to see into the future I’m speaking with Wolfgang Tillmans in the evening on 23 December; he’s at his parents’ house, having gone back to spend Christmas with them.

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© Thomas Adank / Barbican Centre An immersive virtual reality experience, In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats, has opened at London’s Barbican Centre. Taking place from 22nd May until 3rd August, it invites visitors to “travel back in time to the heart of the acid house scene” where groups of four “can share the same virtual space and interact together as rave culture pioneers”.

2 weeks ago | 1854.photography | Diane Smyth

Serra Pelada, State of Para, Brazil, 1986. From the series Serra Pelada © Sebastião Salgado Celebrated photographer Sebastião Salgado has died after more than 50 years of committed documentary work; here BJP draws on past interviews to give an insight into his approachBJP was saddened to hear of the passing of celebrated documentary photographer Sebastião Salgado on 23 May 2025.

3 weeks ago | 1854.photography | Diane Smyth

Tower Bridge, London, 2012 @ Idris Khan London Lives gathers work by over 30 artists to laud and emulate one of the most multicultural cities on earth, at the Photo London fair. Curator Francis Hodgson explains more“What I had in mind was that, if you work in London, or if you go for a walk, or if you go shopping, you will meet people who don’t think like you,” says Francis Hodgson.

1 month ago | 1854.photography | Diane Smyth

All images © Thaddé Comar One degree removed from the media, the French-Swiss photographer is making work questioning the power of imagesIn late October/early November 2008, the French high-speed railway network was disrupted when iron bars were placed on its overhead power cables. Delaying over 150 trains, the sabotage was denounced as ultra-left terrorism, perhaps aimed at disrupting the transport of nuclear waste.