Discover the art of photography in context

• Peter Mitchell (1943)

Portraits of faceless scarecrows in rural Yorkshire over four decades.

• Lisette Model (1901-1983)

Class, leisure, and bodily presence among Nice vacationers and promenaders, presented through tightly bounded black-and-white portraits.

• Martin Hill (1946)

Human impact on nature through temporary sculptures made from local materials and photographed in remote landscapes.

• W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978)

The day-and-night work of general practitioner Ernest Guy Ceriani, presented as a black-and-white sequence shaped by actual events.

• Yelena Yemchuk (1970)

Youth entering adulthood amid war in Odesa, portrayed through color portraits and views of their everyday surroundings.

• Daidō Moriyama (1938)

Raw and experimental work that defies photographic conventions, capturing Tokyo’s chaotic urban life through intentional blurs and grain.

• Riitta Päiväläinenis (1969)

Human presence within uninhabited nature, documented through temporary fabric installations and water reflections.

• Miroslav Tichý (1926-2011)

Women in Kyjov, seen through blurred, uneven exposures produced with improvised cameras and extended by pencil additions and handmade mounts.

• Lewis Hine (1874-1940)

Industrial labor, human dignity, and photographic realism during the Machine Age.

• Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953),
• Knud Lonberg-Holm (1895-1972),
• Erich Karweik (1893-1967),
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Architectural and urban critique conveyed through a collective visual narrative, highlighting modernity’s ambivalence.

• Elliott Erwitt (1928-2023)

Human–dog companionship and social behavior, documented through carefully timed gestures.

• Anton Kusters (1974)

Memory of the Holocaust through photographs of sky above camp locations and numbers of victims as a record of absence and time.

• Lisette Model (1901-1983)

Metropolitan pace and pedestrian anonymity in early-1940s New York, rendered through low-angle, tightly cropped photographs of passersby's legs.

• Lars Tunbjörk (1956-2015)

The monotony of office settings and the absurdity of corporate life captured through stark flash photography.

• Ken Domon (1909-1990)

Children in mining villages with poverty and play in postwar Japan show the effects of industrial decline and the persistence of community life.

• Paul Reas (1955)

Everyday life within Thatcher-era consumer culture, photographed in colour as a critique of changing social systems in South Wales.

• Mitch Epstein (1952)

Ancient trees within interdependent forest ecosystems across the United States, photographed with an 8 × 10 field camera.

• Anton Bruehl (1900-1982)

Close-up portraits and details of everyday life in rural Mexico