The Work Issue has officially launched!

Photographing protest, labour rights and communities… ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Work Issue #7919 Our Work issue is here! It takes up most of our waking hours and yet it’s seldom depicted. This new edition of BJP explores the topic from multiple angles: How do photographers make a living? Which curators are preserving our 20th-century industrial history? And how does medical, agricultural and labour imagery operate in both professional and artistic spheres? [PURCHASE YOUR COPY]( Among the latest projects, we meet the treehouse residents of Daniel Chatard’s images of those living in the makeshift treetop dwellings, working to save nearby homes and forests. Before heading to the West Bank to meet the stranded Palestinians from Gaza who are blocked from earning a wage. And we traipse Via Quarti, a street in Milan home to working class families from Southern Italy, North Africa and Eastern Europe in Chiara Calgaro’s series. We hear from artists such as Kadir van Lohuizen and Christina Fernandez among our other in-depth artist features, and we learn about maintaining archives of work from the Martin Parr Foundation’s Isaac Blease, Fondazione MAST’s Urs Stahel, and Luciano Zuccaccia, whose Protest in Photobook library exceeds 700 anti-establishment volumes. On our bookshelf, we flick through The Last Safe Abortion by Carmen Winant and we look at selfies taken during the 1860s in Cartomania by Paul Frecker. We sit down with Marseille-based publishers Loose Joints, learning where they took their name and how they go about publishing photo books by today’s most cutting-edge artists. And we hear from Zula Rabikowska on why she’s deconstructing stereotypes around the ‘Eastern European’ identity by examining several photographers from her native region. As ever, our writers preview this season’s most important institutional shows, including Tate Britain’s huge survey of ‘80s photography in Britain, while we also count down to Paris Photo and spend a lazy afternoon with Jenny Matthews in east London. Our cover is an iconic shot by John Sturrock from our feature on photographing the Miners’ Strike of the ‘80s. Depicting a mass picket confronting police lines in Bilston Glen, Scotland, in 1984, Sturrock tells BJP, “I was just very lucky to be in the middle and to get that shot,” highlighting one of several approaches to capturing the key event in British industrial history.⁠ Brenda Prince was one of the photographers on the ground, and her pictures of women’s action groups involved with the strikes appear in BJP’s forthcoming Work magazine. Protest and social history are big themes of this issue, in which we dive into the London School of Economics’ research visualising wealth inequality and trace anti-establishment photo books from across the globe. All this alongside our usual emerging artist Projects, Studio Visit and Any Answers features. If you’re a BJP Print & Digital subscriber or a Full Access member, your Virtual Reality magazine is in the post and will arrive soon. Or head to thebjpshop.com to buy your copy. Get your copy via thebjpshop.com Limited stock available. [PURCHASE YOUR COPY]( [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](