Discover the art of photography in context

• Nicky Bird (1960)

Personal histories amid Scottish urban renewal, presented through semi-transparent snapshot overlays on contemporary site photographs, across multiple communities.

• Cindy Sherman (1954)

Female identity shaped by mass-media stereotypes, documented through staged black-and-white self-portraits.

• Matthew Swarts (1970)

The uncertainty of a newly forming relationship, presented through digitally composited portraits layered with Photoshop-generated screens of appropriated Web artifacts.

• Chan–Hyo Bae (1975)

Staged self-portraiture in Western costume reveals patterns of exclusion in cultural narratives and questions of race and gender.

• Jorma Puranen (1951)

Installations incorporating 19th-century portraits of Sámi people within their ancestral landscapes, creating a symbolic return that interrogates cultural erasure and historical representation.

• Jule Ehlenz (2001)

Personal identity within intergenerational family history, documented through analogue double exposures of self-portraits and family photographs, in the preserved house of the photographer's grandmother.

• Eikoh Hosoe (1933-2024)

Life and death through the body of writer Yukio Mishima in settings of theatrical symbolism in the shifting cultural climate of 1960s Japan.

• Manit Sriwanichpoom (1961)

Satirical representation of consumerism through character in shocking pink suit juxtaposed with historical and contemporary contexts.

• Chuck Samuels (1956)

Male reenactments of classic female nudes in photography question expectations about gender, beauty, and art history.

• Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992)

Found images and advertisements within the Italian landscape, reframing reality through the lens of mass media.