Photography

The Latvian-born artist takes found photographs and paints over them to make enigmatic and eerie images – but they’re not meant to be scary, she insists

The photographer recorded life in New York for 70 years without receiving the same acclaim as her male contemporaries, but that seems to be changing

What goes up inevitably must come down – but for a fleeting moment some photographers have tried to suggest otherwise

Photographers and film-makers have long added colour to their images – but does the current craze for colourisation create a false impression of olden times?

With nightclubs in crisis, photographs of clubbers leave Peter Scott feeling nostalgic for the ’90s rave scene

With an eye for ritual, the photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews celebrates an unfamiliar vision of the river

Conveying the views of a disgruntled jinn is just one of the artist’s absurdist approaches to understanding the modern world

The artist Sam Contis talks about mining a rich seam in the personal archive of Dorothea Lange, and the parallels between Lange’s work and her own photography

Joshua Chuang remembers working with Santu Mofokeng on a series of books presenting the South African photographer’s life’s work

Exhibitions of lunar photography and a major Martin Parr retrospective are among the highlights to watch out for in 2019

An exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum makes clear the radical vision of Peter Hujar’s intimate photographs

The film-maker discusses the unique quality of Polaroids – and why in the future no one will see the digital photographs being taken today

This ambitious exhibition at London’s Science Museum marks 70 years of Indian independence

The photographer’s foundation opens with pop-up portrait sessions and an exhibition of images of the West Midlands

Latif Al Ani’s beautifully framed photographs provide a moving, modern picture of Iraq