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All Rights Reserved 42 02 © William Fortescue B+W 34 BLACK+WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY ISSUE 267 CONTENTS FEATURES 34 NOMADS 70 MASTERS OF THE ART 20 ON SHOW 10 ON REFLECTION William Fortescue focuses on Nick Smith presents an overview Tracy Calder previews the new The human condition provides giant tusker elephants and of Eugène Atget’s pictorial RPS International Photography the inspiration for Alexander Diaz’s other iconic species recorded of Old Paris Exhibition in Bristol various projects 42 ANOTHER COUNTRY NEWS 22 IN THE FRAME 26 IN PURSUIT Gerry Badger offers a reappraisal 06 NEWSROOM Inspiring photo and mixed-media OF THE MOMENT of Britain’s post-1945 documentary Niche competition results, exhibitions across the UK Street photographer Luigi Vaccaro photography Leica models discontinued COMMENT loves two things: travelling and and events for your diary his Leica M10 48 PHOTO SHOWCASE 24 AMERICAN CONNECTION Celebrate photojournalism with 08 BOOKSHELF Victory Tischler-Blue takes a closer 32 60-SECOND EXPOSURE the best of the 2022 World Three new photobooks for look at life inside a traditional Spotlight on Justyna Kulam Press Photo Contest your delectation and delight Nevada brothel © Louie Palu © Joanna Maclennan 48 76 © Andrew Wheatley 72 © Rick Bogacz 80 03 B+W EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIPTION OFFER – SEE PAGE 79 BLACKANDWHITEPHOTOGRAPHYMAG.CO.UK 68 A FORTNIGHT AT F/8 INSPIRATION TESTS & PRODUCTS 80 SALON Tim Clinch never lets the truth 64 ONE-DAY 84 B+W LOVES Rick Bogacz shares his evocative get in the way of a good PHOTO PROJECTS Canon, Fujifilm, Sigma and more images of the Canadian coast travel photography story Eddie Ephraums ponders the reveal their latest cameras, lenses simple question: what type and accessories 90 HOW TO GET PUBLISHED TECHNIQUE of photographer are you? Submit your images and join the 54 TOP TIPS 86 CHECKOUT online community From crumbling cottages to 76 EYE, PHONE, Our pick of the best value for towering offices, Lee Frost gets PHOTOGRAPHY money telezooms 95 NEXT MONTH creative with architecture NEW Tim Clinch talks B+W 268 is on sale 4 August YOUR BLACK+WHITE SERIES ideas, freedom and 60 SURREALISM experimentation with 72 SMARTSHOTS 96 LAST FRAME Tim Daly journeys through the photographer and iPhone Stunning single images from A stunning single image wins subconscious with his camera convert Joanna Maclennan B+W’s talented readers a superb prize © Yael Martínez / Magnum Photos The Flower of Time: Guerrero’s Red Mountain by Yael Martínez 04 B+W A series of pictures by Magnum photographer FIRST Yael Martínez is among the winners in this FRAME year’s World Press Photo. The pictures explore the impact of the drug economy on Mexican farming communities which have turned to poppy cultivation as a means of survival. Martínez put scratches and pinpricks into prints of the photographs to represent trauma and the scratching of the poppy flower during opium extraction. This picture shows a Mixtec elder on the Cerro de la Garza in Guerrero on 31 December 2021. On New Year’s Eve, Mixtecs climb the hill to perform rituals commemorating the end and beginning of a life cycle. For more superb pictures from World Press Photo see page 48. 05 B+W NEWSROOM Edited by Kingsley Singleton LEICA MOVES SOLID WORK © Sara Goli It looks like the end of the line for Leica’s CL and TL2 mirrorless APS-C cameras. The world is full of great photo competitions and with category winners receiving $2,500. Concrete In a forum statement, the although some of them are pretty niche, they can is actually the most widely used human-made company said those models still produce wonderful results. Take the Global material in the world, so there’s no shortage will be discontinued in order Cement and Concrete Association’s (GCCA) of inspiration. to focus attention on the yearly photo contest, for example. We bet that’s Winners include Sara Goli, who topped the growing market for full-frame cameras, with smaller- not on your radar, but this year’s winners include Concrete Infrastructure Professional category sensored and compact some striking black & white images of a subject with her shot taken in the Chitgar Complex, models having a shrinking that’s actually often monochrome by design. Iran, and Amri Arfianto in the Concrete in 06 market. Both launched in The competition, which seeks to celebrate the Daily Life Amateur section, whose shot shows 2017, the CL and TL2 are still beauty, importance and sustainability of concrete the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in the United B+W available while stocks last in today’s world, saw more than 13,500 entries Arab Emirates. and customers who buy or globally, while the grand winner scooped $10,000, Visit gccassociation.org for more. own them already will be fully supported down the line. WINGS OF On the upside, Leica and Panasonic have announced a new business alliance. The DESTRUCTION companies, which share the L-Mount used in bodies such as the Leica SL and One of the Panasonic S5, will develop most intriguing new technologies under photobooks released the name L2 Technology, in recent years, maximising Leica’s optical and imaging technology and The Killing Sink by Panasonic’s video and digital Matthew Dunne expertise. Good things to is an investigation come, we hope! into the persecution of wedge-tailed OPEN AIR eagles in Victoria, Australia. Partly an examination of public A new outdoor space presenting the best in grief and partly a true-crime essay, Matt contemporary photography visited the sites where eagles have been has opened in London. The trapped, shot, poisoned and killed, unpicking Soho Photography Quarter is the psychology behind some of Australia's the redevelopment of space worst treatment of the environment. around the Photographers’ Sadly, it’s a situation repeated countrywide, Gallery in Ramilies Street, just off Oxford Street. The area as native species are destroyed in service has been transformed into a of agricultural interests, many hundreds of pedestrianised space offering miles from prying eyes. a rotating programme of free The Killing Sink is published in softcover photography exhibitions along by VOID, priced at £35, and covers 88 pages. with live events, artist talks See void.photo and mattdunnephoto.com and installations. for details. © Matthew Dunne © Paul Trevor © Man Ray MAN OF MORE One of Man Ray’s most iconic photographs, Le Violon d’Ingres, has gone under the hammer at Christie’s New York and broken the record for a single photo sold at auction. Created in 1924 and featuring model Alice Prin, the image sold for $12.4 million, almost doubling its estimate. The previous record holder, Rhein II by Andreas Gursky, took $4.34 million in 2011. 07 B+W BERLIN IN © Berlin Photo Week THE DIARY? If you fancy some culture this year, why not get it in the heart of Germany? You can catch Berlin Photo Week from 2-9 September at the huge Arena Berlin site, as well as satellite locations across this vibrant city. Central to the event is the 75th anniversary of Magnum Photos and many iconic images will be exhibited in celebration, including recent works by Adler Street, London E1, 14 May 1978. The start of the march behind Altab Ali’s coffin from Christopher Anderson and Whitechapel to Hyde Park, organised by the Action Committee Against Racial Attacks. Alec Soth. Other cultural TURNING POINT partners include Robert Morat Gallery and the Helmut A new exhibition documents a dramatic struggle The exhibition features 70 of Trevor’s images Newton Foundation. The event for justice in east London at the end of the 1970s. alongside accounts of activists and forms a also includes photo walks Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point features powerful narrative of the time. The show is and workshops. Plus, it runs the work of Paul Trevor, who photographed the supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund alongside IFA, the consumer and protests following the racist murder of Altab and runs at the Four Corners Gallery, 121 Roman home electronics show, so if you Ali that year. The series shows a young Bengali Road, London, until 10 September. Entry is free. want to mix in some tech, you’re community taking to the streets in action against Head to fourcornersfilm.co.uk and paultrevor. sorted for that too. institutional racism and the National Front. com for more. See berlinphotoweek.com. BOOKSHELF NEWS Life behind the Iron Curtain, New York subway candids and mindfulness Edited by Jonathan Harwood provide the themes and inspirations behind this month’s trio of new tomes. 08 B+W T © Arthur Grace here is a quote at than 120 black & white images Many of the pictures the beginning of serves up a rare glimpse of document the rise of the photojournalist day-to-day life under the Solidarity movement in Poland Arthur Grace’s book communist regimes of the era. and the subsequent imposition Communism(s) Shot in the USSR, Poland, of martial law, often taken that sends a shiver Romania, Yugoslavia and East with a long lens from the relative down the spine: ‘Those who Germany, the photographs reveal security of a hotel room to cannot remember the past are the complex compact between avoid the authorities. condemned to repeat it.’ the state and everyday citizens, Others highlight the ever- Those words from philosopher who could live a life of moderate present propaganda to which George Santayana seem only comfort – a home, a job – in those living under communism too relevant given the current return for their obedience. were exposed and the realities global political situation – and as Of course, that lack of freedom of life: long queues for meat and deteriorating relations between cast a long shadow, which is more groceries, horse-drawn carts Russia and the West threaten than evident in Grace’s images. carrying produce to market. COMMUNISM(S): to usher in a new era of global There are portraits of factory Yet as Richard Hornik, Grace’s hostility, this book serves as a workers, farmers, churchgoers, Time Magazine colleague, notes A COLD WAR ALBUM timely reminder that the Cold holidaymakers and teenagers in the afterword, the images Arthur Grace War ended just a generation ago. making the most of their lives capture the ‘gritty, multi- Damiani Grace was one of the few juxtaposed with images of bleak dimensional reality’ of life behind Hardback, £48 Western photojournalists apartment blocks, glorified May the Iron Curtain, defying the operating behind the Iron Day Parades and the unnerving propaganda while also rejecting Curtain in the 1970s and 80s, presence of uniformed men and the counter-narrative of an and this collection of more security officials. oppressed, impoverished people.