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).

Bill Brandt
‘The English at Home’
Text by Zmira Zilkha

César Dezfuli’s ‘Passengers’ is a series of portraits taken of people drifting in the Mediterranean Sea after trying to cross in August 2016. We spoke to César about the project.

Originally delivered as a lecture to coincide with the Cross Channel Photographic Mission (CCPM) exhibition held during the Brighton Photo Biennial. Anne McNeill looks back on the groundbreaking CCPM, which would become Photoworks, the organisation she ran from 1995 to 1997.

Michael Danner’s Migration as Avant-Garde
Text by Julia Bunnemann

Alice Myers shares her series ‘Nothing is Impossible Under the Sun’ for our Instagram Takeover as part of our issue #1 Europe.

Considering the outcome for Northern Ireland after the Brexit referendum in 2016, Toby Binder looks at the impact these changes may have on the youth of Belfast.