With the end of 2019 in sight, we thought this a good time to look back at the past twelve months and put together a selection of favourite articles from 2019. Including articles from five of our online issues of Photography+, featuring Liz Johnson Artur, René Burri, Michael Danner, John Divola, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Vinca Petersen, Barbara Probst amongst others. 

Ghent-based photographer Sybren Vanoverberghe discusses his series Conference of the Birds. His work functions as an analysis of the correlation between place and time and is part of #5 Architecture.

British Litter Bins 1950-66
Text by Ian Leith

Mauro Restiffe – Architecture as Document
Text by Raquel Villar-Pérez

Dead ends
Text by Claudia Lynch

John Divola – Vandalism
Text by Mark Rawlinson

Andrea Gruetzner’s abstract architectural series Hive are shown here as part of #5 Architecture. Gruetzner shares her process, inspirations and what’s next.

Richard Kolker’s new series Cundy Street Flats details the buildings around Ebury Square and Cundy street, which were destroyed during the bombing raids of the Second World War. Kolker’s work is included as part of #5 Architecture.

Photoworks would like to appoint a writer in residence to contribute to 2020s five editions of Photography+.

Ilona Szwarc’s series Unsex Me Here focuses on staged transformations based on personal experiences, shared here as part of Photography+ #4 Staged.

As part of Photography+ #4 Staged, we spoke to Hoda Afshar about her practice and the ways she merges conceptual, staged and documentary photography. Showing here her series Remain, made in collaboration with refugees held in a remote offshore detention centre.

For #4 Staged, we spoke to LIVE WILD, a fictional collective founded by artist Camille Lévêque consisting of seven imagined female artists. Here she explains her relationship to her work and her aliases.

For our Photography+ #4 Staged, we look back into our archives to the first issue of Photoworks Annual and Val Williams reviewing Philip-Lorca diCorcia’s exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in 2003.

Barbara Probst, Exposures, 2000–present
Text by Shoair Mavlian

Lauren Orchowski shares images from her series Rocket Science looking at The Cold War era rocket ship playgrounds located throughout North America. Orchowski shares why what inspires her to make work.

The relics of the early post war collaborative space project Symphonies and its impact on civilian communication and entertainment is explored in Raphaël Dallaporta’s project Relique Avant-Garde.

Looking back at one of René Burri’s little known projects, Simon Baker highlights the heroism and ruins of space exploration in Burri’s photo-book An American Dream: Photographs from the world of NASA and the Pentagon.

Staged images of the lunar surface by 19th century amateur astronomer James Nasmyth, anaglyph stereoscopic prints invented by Louis Ducos du Hauron and the first images of the moon in colour and in 3D by Léon Gimpel are explored in an article by Inès de Bordas.

Maria Gruzdeva shares images from her series Direction Space for our Photography+ #3 Space. Timed to coincide with the anniversary of the moon landing, Gruzdeva shares an insight into her process, how she thinks about photography and why she makes work.

For #3 Space we invited Anka Gregorczyk and Igor Zieliński to take part in conversations through images in our Instagram Photochats.

Artist, Fabian Reimann shares his series Space Colonies for ifor our third issue Photography+Space, coinciding with the anniversary of the moon landing.

Dance – State: bridging the border through dance in 1980s Derry
Text by Shoair Mavlian

Vinca Petersen shares images from her photobook No System published with Steidl in 1999. No System is included in the national collections at the V&A and was shown at Tate Modern in 2019. Petersen shares an insight into her process and why she makes work.

Following on from Dancing in Peckham at Peckham 24, we invited Rebecca Salvadori and Lilian Nejatpour to take part in our Instagram photochats. As part of #2 Dance, photochats are conversations through images.

Liz Johnson Artur
Text by Drew Sawyer

Amar Ediriwira shares his work and wider practice for our Instagram Takeover as part of #2 Dance.

Tobias Zielony’s Maskirovka, 2017
Text by Jörg Colberg

Leading on from our Open Forum events during Brighton Photo Biennial 2018, we asked artist Nana Varveropoulou back to kick off our Instagram photochats. As part of our issue #1 Europe, photochats are conversations through images. Featuring Nana Varveropoulou and System of Systems (Danae Io, Rebecca Glyn-Blanco and Maria McLintock).