1854 Photography

All images from the body of work The Queering of Photography,
2015–2025 © Åsa Johannesson Åsa Johannesson unravels the medium’s tropes offering an expansive vision of possibility

The late theorist José Esteban Muñoz opens Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity with a provocation; “Queerness is not yet here. Queer...

All images © Yumna Al-Arashi The role of women’s bodies and the colonial history of photography inform Yumna Al-Arashi’s debut solo museum exhibition, on show at Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, this spring

In 2003, George W Bush gave his now infamous Address to the Nation, detailing the onset invasion of Iraq. “We will defend our freedom. We will bring free...

Picnic, 2024 © Frida Orupabo. Heliogravure on four sheets of Somerset paper; Museum Rietberg was able to purchase this work with funds from the City of Zurich The Museum Rietberg’s first curator of photography and head of the photo archive, Nanina Guyer is helping the institution rethink its approach to images from the colonial era and beyond

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Shot on Nikon © Hayleigh Longman Scarlet Page’s most recognisable work was created beyond the confines of a typical photographic studio: backstage, at the side of stages, in dressing rooms and travelling on the road with touring artists.

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© Abdulhamid Kircher 2026, courtesy Loose Joints Working with Sierra Kiss for four years, Abdulhamid Kircher was able to help and advocate for the young mother. “It’s so crucial for men… to also be speaking up for women,” he says

There is an image in Abdulhamid Kircher’s latest book, New Genesis, showing Sierra Kiss sitting on a mattress looking...