Call for Entries! LensCulture Black & White Photography Awards 2020

We’re seeking talented photographers around the world making remarkable black and white photography. Submit your interpretation of the theme for a chance to be exhibited New York in April 2021. Free entry for single image submissions.

Feature

The Theater of the Street

Michael McIlvaney

Curious about the changing nature of our relationship with public space and how we move through it, this photographer’s sharp observations dissect the minute interactions that play out on the street.

Feature

A Transdisciplinary Memorial to Millions Lost in 1932-33 Soviet Ukraine

Lesia Maruschak

How can something beautiful provide evidence of the atrocious? This project grapples with the millions of Soviet Ukrainian deaths under Stalin’s policy of forced starvation in the early 1930s.

Award winner

Meeting Sofie

Snezhana von Büdingen

This elegant coming-of-age series follows a young woman with Down syndrome as she experiences love, friendship and the nurturing bonds with her mother and nature.

Interview

After the Fact

Tony Fouhse

Canadian photographer Tony Fouhse traces the fascinations that have fueled his long and varied career, leading him to his latest project: a dystopian take on his familiar surroundings. Canadian photographer Tony Fouhse traces the fascinations that have fueled his long and varied career, leading him to his latest project: a dystopian take on his familiar surroundings.

Book review

Keeper of the Hearth

Odette England

A new book brings together 200 artists, writers and thinkers to make a beautiful, polyphonic ode to Roland Barthes’ famed ‘Winter Garden’ photograph—a deeply personal image of his mother that he writes about, but never discloses.