Photography Features and Stories

The Camera As A Listening Device: Tahereh Fallahzadeh’s Darkroom Practice Of Memory And Freedom

The Camera As A Listening Device: Tahereh Fallahzadeh’s Darkroom Practice Of Memory And Freedom

Tahereh Fallahzadeh’s Light In My Pocket transforms the experience of exile into a poetic and dreamlike exploration of light, landscape, and memory, revealing the darkroom as a place where unexpected images can emerge.

Feature Written by Stella Meyer
Charlotte Yonga Reimagining Youth And Belonging In Madagascar

Charlotte Yonga Reimagining Youth And Belonging In Madagascar

In her series (Tsy) Possible, photographer Charlotte Yonga looks beyond stereotypes to capture the tenderness, connection, and quiet hopes of Madagascar's young generation imagining its future.

Feature Written by Lucia De Stefani
A Passport To Belonging: Keisha Scarville's Counter-Narratives On Migration

A Passport To Belonging: Keisha Scarville's Counter-Narratives On Migration

For over a decade, artist Keisha Scarville has returned to a single passport photo of her father to ask what such an image can hold, and what remains just beyond its edges.

Feature Written by Lucia De Stefani
Books That Feel Effortless: Vasantha Yogananthan and Chose Commune’s Publishing Practice

Books That Feel Effortless: Vasantha Yogananthan And Chose Commune’s Publishing Practice

Since the founding of the independent publishing house Chose Commune, photographer Vasantha Yogananthan and creative director Cécile Poimbœuf-Koizumi have worked with photobooks as objects meant to live with, and to shape collective memory.

Feature Written by PhMuseum
Fiction, Realism, Speculation: Salvatore Vitale's Transmedia Narratives

Fiction, Realism, Speculation: Salvatore Vitale's Transmedia Narratives

The Italian artist's practice dissects the layers of our contemporary world, while posing a question: what are the renewed possibilities of photography today?

Feature Written by PhMuseum
Niharika Chauhan's River That Remembers

Niharika Chauhan's River That Remembers

Chauhan returns to her ancestral village in Uttar Pradesh to document a crumbling house – and finds time itself as her subject.

Feature Written by Lucia De Stefani
The Living Ancestral Echoes Of Irene Antonia Diana Reece’s Family And Memory

The Living Ancestral Echoes Of Irene Antonia Diana Reece’s Family And Memory

Through family archives, lineage, and layered imagery, Reece turns grief, love, and remembrance into a quiet form of activism, exploring what it means to see and be seen.

Feature Written by Lucia De Stefani
Verdiana Albano: Between Two Cultures, Beyond Completion

Verdiana Albano: Between Two Cultures, Beyond Completion

Verdiana Albano's I Ain't From No East Coast reconstructs Afro-German history through fragmentation, family archives, and the absences official narratives leave behind.

Feature Written by Lucia De Stefani
Long Live Photobook Mania

Long Live Photobook Mania

The 1st edition of PhMuseum's event dedicated to photography publishing brought together more than 2,000 people celebrating printed matter at Serra Madre in Bologna, Italy.

Feature Written by PhMuseum
You Never Came Back: Serena Radicioli's Inquiry Into Loss and Memory

You Never Came Back: Serena Radicioli's Inquiry Into Loss And Memory

A candidate for PhEST Pop-Up Open Call 2025, Non sei più tornato (You Never Came Back) blends intimacy and investigation to reconstruct a fragmented, transformative narrative.

Feature Written by PhMuseum
Zekun Wang Transforming Memory And Imagination

Zekun Wang Transforming Memory And Imagination

Through field photography, rephotographed archives, and AI generated images, Wang’s vision creates a hybrid space that mirrors Shimenkan’s history of cultural collisions — a metaphorical landscape where magical realism and lived history converge.

Feature Written by Lucia De Stefani
Billy H.C. Kwok Documents a Mother's Search for Her Missing Son

Billy H.C. Kwok Documents A Mother's Search For Her Missing Son

Kwok’s photographs reveal the emotional moments behind and after a disappearance that the media never fully told—highlighting hope, loss, and resilience.

Feature Written by Lucia De Stefani
The Legacy of the Raised Fist

The Legacy Of The Raised Fist

Three men walk past an image of Lee Evans’ raised fist. Past and present meet in silence. Their presence speaks of strength, identity, and the quiet legacy of resistance that continues through time.

Feature Written by Mourad CHERIFI
Amy Kim’s West Texas: Landscapes of Labor, Symbols, and Change

Amy Kim’s West Texas: Landscapes Of Labor, Symbols, And Change

Documenting a region transformed by oil, money, and technology, Amy Kim reveals the layered visual and social complexities of life in West Texas.

Feature Written by Lucia De Stefani
Witness in the Shadows: Hashem Shakeri Documents Resilience in Taliban-Era Afghanistan

Witness In The Shadows: Hashem Shakeri Documents Resilience In Taliban-Era Afghanistan

Hashem Shakeri’s images trace the fragility of Afghan life after the Taliban’s return to power, revealing lives suspended between uncertainty and survival—not as a story of defeat, but of humanity staring back from the void.

Feature Written by Lucia De Stefani