British Journal of Photography #7923

230 x 300 mm, 196 pages

London, UK

Since 1854

Quarterly

Editor: Diane Smyth

Creative director: Mick Moore

Designer: Nicky Browne

With a founding date of 1854, BJP is the world’s oldest and longest running photography magazine. But age has not caused it to stagnate—as they say, it’s ‘not your usual game of picture karaoke.’ This latest edition, themed ‘Maps’, examines the photographic representation of cartography—which is rarely neutral—exploring ‘the ways images create particular views of territories; it also questions the limits of maps and images, the impossibility of containing a space-time continuum’.

As ever, the issue begins by highlighting notable upcoming exhibitions and events, among them the 28th edition of Paris Photo taking place this autumn; ‘Proximity’, a retrospective at Bristol’s Martin Parr Foundation spanning Stephen McCoy’s four-decade long documentation of domestic spatial politics; and, Bologna’s Fondazione MAST gears up to host Mohamad Bourouissa’s acclaimed series ‘Péripherique’, presented in conversation with new work. Also inside: black and white images of quotidian life in Zofia Rydet’s native Poland, Alexander Gronsky captures an alternative picture of contemporary Russia, and Elsa Leydier ‘unmakes images’.