Your Sunday Inspiration ✨

Sebastian Bruno, Queer New Wave, Nikita Teryoshin and more ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ © Bérangère Fromont What can placing photography alongside its sibling art forms tell us about the medium? Lots of things, depending on the curation and context. A few current shows incorporate photographic art in service of a broader idea, letting the message transcend the boundaries between media. The Royal Academy’s newly opened [Entangled Pasts]( seeks to spotlight the institution’s role in British imperial patronage of the arts, bringing together historic and contemporary works. It includes Mohini Chandra’s Imaginary Edens/Photos of my Father, where the artist cut her father out of family photographs made by her Indian family in Fiji, who were descended from British-governed indentured labourers. Manipulating the print allows the image to communicate absence, migration and in-betweenness in a way the show’s sculptures and paintings cannot. There’s also [Soulscapes]( opening on Wednesday at Dulwich Picture Gallery, which aims for a “contemporary retelling of landscape by artists from the African Diaspora.” Like the RA show, this decolonial strategy of ‘looking again’ makes ample space for photographs, a far younger and more dynamic medium than the often dogmatic representations of history fixed in paint. Jermaine Francis, Mónica de Miranda, Alberta Whittle and Isaac Julien fly the lens-based flag in this one. [Radical Landscapes]( open for another week at the William Morris Gallery, opts for a similar approach, placing works by Chris Killip and Jo Spence besides JMW Turner and Veronica Ryan. It’s also nice to see the inclusion of the Format Photographers Agency here too, adding to their extensive showing in Tate Britain’s excellent [Women in Revolt!]( Let’s hope that this recognition of photography’s social role within a sometimes inert history of art continues in 2024. Of course, sometimes it’s by exploring a single artist’s career that this mixed-media focus emerges. Saul Leiter’s Centennial exhibition – which just closed at Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York – arranged black-and-white and colour images alongside his lesser-known paintings, creating new dialogues around an artist who was always inspired by the Abstract Expressionists. Next for Leiter fans is a [major survey at MK Gallery]( in Milton Keynes, which opens on Saturday with 171 photographs and 40 more paintings. Back to BJP, there are lots of new stories online – check out long reads with Sebastián Bruno and Gem Fletcher’s group of Queer photographers especially. Meet photography’s Queer new wave Trans and Queer artists are using photography as a means to build community – both in images and in practice [Read more]( [Become a Full Access Member]( by 21 February and receive the Virtual Reality magazine and our upcoming issues at your doorstep plus, unlock free entry to all of our internationally acclaimed awards, including Portrait of Humanity Vol. 6 now open for entries. [Build the way you want]( Sebastián Bruno bids a long farewell to Wales Sebastián Bruno’s series Ta-ra is the result of a decade spent living and working in Wales, a country he initially planned to visit for six months [Read more]( [Build the way you want]( Nikita Teryoshin goes into the backroom of war Shot in arms fairs around the world over the last eight years, Nikita Teryoshin’s Nothing Personal – The Back Office of War reveals the chilling business of conflict [Read more]( [Build the way you want]( © Kevin Prodin, Portrait of Humanity Vol. 6 shortlist OPEN FOR ENTRIES  | Portrait of Humanity Vol. 6 In a time of division and discord, photographs have the power to bridge gaps and highlight the common threads that bind us together. BJP’s Portrait of Humanity is now open for its sixth edition, seeking to recognise impactful storytelling on the world stage [Learn 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](