Magnum Poster: New Brighton, UK, 1983–85 Framing:Custom White Frame

Magnum Poster: New Brighton, UK, 1983–85 Framing:Custom White FrameMartin Parrs unmistakable eye for the quirks of ordinary life has made him a distinctive voice in visual culture for more than 30 years. Known for his use of color and esoteric composition, he has studied cultural peculiarities around the world from Japan to America, Europe, and his home country of Britain. The themes of leisure, consumption and communication have occupied him for much of his career, all of which are explored with a penetrating irony.

After a decade of travelling and living in Africa and then France

chainlink fence

Hiroji Kubota has long been documenting the contradictions at play in East Asia

and kept the lens at a constant focal length

With journalistic zeal and a keen eye for crucial details

and I believe that I will never stop doing so

There he captured images of the time he spent with the Black Panthers across the country in the early 1960s

won a regional prize in the 2022 World Press Photo Contest

the shadowy men of Wall Street stalk New York City

May God give them peace

"Contemplating Burma: photographs by Hiroji Kubota" (in English and Japanese)

But Seriously brings together black-and-white photographs that exemplify the combination of wit