Your Sunday Inspiration ✨

Farhana Satu, Hashim Nasr, Karice Mitchell and more ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Count Binface, UK Parliamentary candidate for the Richmond and Northallerton, from 'The Hopefuls', 2024 © Tom Oldham It is just under two weeks until the UK general election, with the campaign intensifying via a series of commitments, scandals and frenzied predictions. The photography we platform is often political – from Hashim Nasr documentation of forced migration from the Sudanese civil war to Karice Mitchell’s reimagining of Black US men’s magazines – but it is easy to forget the more traditional branch of political photojournalism which dominates the media during this period. On the one hand, these images have an archival function which untethers them from the person who made them; the UK Parliament website does not list the individual photographer on its inventory of recent [House of Commons images](. But on the other, a series or single shot can transcend its context and come to symbolise an entire political era: think of Tom Stoddart’s images of Tony Blair from the 1997 campaign trail, or more recently, [Philip Montgomery’s portraits]( of Joe Biden and Donald Trump for Time, assured but imbued with a sense of momentous anticipation for the unknowns to come. Other photographs serve a specific function, such as Tom Oldham’s [The Hopefuls]( a series of 43 portraits of 2024 UK Parliamentary candidates. “If you like the look of some of these candidates: vote. If you don’t like them: vote” is the project’s mantra – a call to counter voter apathy by familiarising the public with their would-be representatives. Research commissioned to accompany The Hopefuls revealed that 56 per cent of first-time voters do not believe there is a political party that truly represents them, and less than a fifth know who their local MP is. Here portraiture serves a social, democratic, but not necessarily partisan political cause. In the newsletter next week we’ll be running through some tips for those heading to Les Rencontres d’Arles in early July. For those in London, it’s the last day of [Free Range]( today, while the RCA graduate show performance programme features photography students, as well as a full screening of the MA cohort’s work from 14:00 to 16:00 in the Gorvy Lecture Theatre, Dyson Building, Battersea Campus. Have a great week. Final week to enter Portrait of Britain Vol. 7 Don’t miss the chance to be among the 100 winning photographers whose work will be displayed in a month-long exhibition on [JCDecaux UK]( screens, or the 200 shortlisted images published in the dedicated book published by [Bluecoat Press](. Become a [BJP Digital Access or Full Access Member]( to unlock free entry to Portrait of Britain and all of our awards. As a Member you will be entitled to submit up to 10 portraits for free. [Enter now]( Deadline: 27 June 2024, 23:59 UK time. [Build the way you want]( The photographer who swapped rural Bagerhat for the Dhaka metropolis Bangladeshi [One to Watch]( Farhana Satu documents women fishing and city dwellers with the same intensity [Read more]( [Build the way you want]( Safety amidst turmoil: The conceptual expressions of Hashim Nasr From exile in Egypt, the Sudanese artist mixes earthly symbolism with activist portraits to evoke freedom and challenge injustice [Read more]( [Build the way you want]( Karice Mitchell’s sexual subversions The Canadian [One to Watch]( re-appropriates images from 1970s Black men’s magazines to skewer today’s anti-pornography sentiment [Read more]( [Build the way you want]( The art of slow photography, from Almería to California Inspired by Cristina García Rodero and Alex Webb, [One to Watch]( Bandia Ribeira takes a sociological approach to image-making [Read more]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [1854 Media Ltd, 244-254 Cambridge Heath Rd, Cambridge Heath, London, E2 9DA, United Kingdom Click here to update your email preferences]( [Click here to unsubscribe from all emails](