In National Character, photographer John Sanderson travels across the American landscape in search of a country increasingly hidden in plain sight. Working with a 4×5 film camera, he takes the long way around – leaving major highways for small roads and carrying a demanding piece of photographic history into places shaped by industry, decline and change. His commitment to the journey is reflected in the photographs: patient, precise and quietly melancholic, they find a strange beauty in the overlooked corners of America.

New Delhi-based visual artist Noor Kaur Randhawa explores the experience of growing up as a young woman in a world shaped by the threat of male violence and control. Photographing herself and her friends, she captures the ways they navigate fear, resistance, intimacy and freedom — from learning to call out the men around them to reclaiming their bodies, clothes and spaces. A portrait of coming of age, on their own terms.

In My Mother Speaks of Land as Memory, Ariana Gomez explores grief, identity and the landscapes that shape us. Born from the loss of her father, the project moves between the arid terrain of Texas and her mother’s Puerto Rican heritage, constructing a shared mythology from fragments of memory and archive – and bringing three generations together in a space between what was, what remains, and what might have been.

Marcus DeSieno photographs the exact sites along the US–Mexico border where migrants have disappeared, died or their bodies were recovered, reconstructing these locations through autopsy reports and humanitarian records. The project began after DeSieno encountered a dying migrant in an Arizona gas station. Made in the Sonoran Desert using laborious darkroom processes, his landscapes become haunting records of absence, death and remembrance.

Shot along the wild coastline of Scotland – ‘Between the light’ is a visual study on the space between bond and bounded. The series explores the strain of being tethered and what ties two people together. The points of tension and ease. A world between light and dark, where we are torn by those closest to us.

Photographer Emily Chalk spent two weeks in Marrakesh photographing the Sadik family, one of only five families still practising the 500-year-old tradition of snake charming in Jemaa el-Fna. What begins with fear and assumptions about the practice develops into an intimate encounter with trust, inheritance and disappearing traditions – revealing the lives, rituals and relationships that exist beyond the spectacle.

In Movement, Ukrainian photographer Roman Butym reflects on the relentless pace of contemporary life. His ongoing series portrays people lying in public spaces, appearing almost like exhausted objects suspended between movement and stillness. Against a world of constant mobility and information overload, Butym’s images explore anxiety, isolation and the quiet vulnerability hidden beneath the illusion of always being ‘in the flow’.

Photographer Eleonora Laufer explores the quiet spaces where presence lingers beneath the surface of everyday life. Shaped by her background in dance, yoga and meditation, her images embrace stillness as a way of seeing rather than an absence of activity. Through minimal compositions and subtle traces of the human, Laufer invites us to slow down and discover moments of connection, attention and reflection that often go unnoticed.

Inyeon is a Korean word for the connections between people that feel deeper than coincidence. In this series, the relationship between father and son unfolds slowly and intuitively, without a fixed narrative, focused not on specific moments but on presence itself.

In Where the Water Waits, photographer Michael Behlen explores California's Millerton Lake as a landscape suspended between control and uncertainty. Created over three years using rare monochromatic Polaroid Reclaimed Blue film, the project captures the reservoir during storms, transforming a heavily engineered water system into an atmospheric meditation on impermanence, memory, and the ever-changing relationship between land and water.

In Contrapasso, Italian photographer Massimiliano Corteselli examines the mythological and archetypal dimensions of man-made wildfires in the Mediterranean. Drawing on Dante Alighieri's concept of divine retribution, the project weaves together photography, folklore, and symbolism to reflect on greed, vengeance, and humanity's relationship with the land, creating a visual narrative that shifts between documentary, myth, and social critique.

Why would someone confess to a crime they never committed? In this powerful photobook, Robin Dahlberg collaborates with six exonerees to uncover the hidden realities of coercive police interrogations. Through striking portraits and firsthand testimonies, the book exposes the psychological pressures that led innocent people to confess, revealing a justice system where truth can be dangerously fragile.

Para La Cultura y Fútbol (For the Culture and Football) explores identity as something lived, fluid, and continually evolving. Through collaboration, colour, and personal expression, New York–based photographer Ivana Cajina creates powerful images that celebrate community, individuality, and cultural heritage, honouring the beauty of identity in motion through shared experience and self-expression.

We spoke to the rising, primary coloured star that is Gelli Haha at Primavera Sound 2026. Angel Abaya, known professionally as Gelli Haha, has been featured in Pitchfork, NME and Billboard following her latest album. We spoke to her about her relationship to silliness, vaudeville, and Liza Minnelli.

Primavera Sound 2026 was a love letter to glamour and grunge, with unforgettable performances by the likes of The Cure, Olivia Rodrigo, Ethel Cain and Kneecap. We take a look at the festival’s highlights.

Drinks photographer Ned Gibbs turns his lens toward the fading heart of England’s pub culture. Documenting pubs in quiet decline, the series captures the atmosphere, nostalgia and human traces left behind in these communal spaces. Both elegy and celebration, the work reflects Gibbs’ enduring fascination with the rituals, stories and connections formed around drinking culture.