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Photography: Rachel Sussman documents The Oldest Living Things In The World
2014
David McCabe: A Year in the Life of Andy Warhol
2011
The Pedestrian Process: Why going behind the scenes of the creative process isn't all it's cracked up to be
2015
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
2012
Pauline Magnenat captures the chilling locations where people went missing
2012
Gem Fletcher and Ken Hermann shoot death-defying Indian tradition The Well of Death
2018
Mesmerising photojournalism from cross-world collaborators Razon Collective
2012
Gideon Mendel's photographs of flood victims are stunningly powerful
2012
Myah Asha Jeffers documents “the regality, the beauty and the inner world of people of the diaspora”
2021
Mahaneela on co-directing the documentary for Everything is Recorded
2018
Western Fronts is a nature documentary that collapses into itself
2019
Photography: Dae Sung Lee photographs a beautiful but quickly disappearing island
2013
Director Jerry Rothwell on Ethiopia's very small town that's big on producing world-class runners
2012
Christian Rodriguez follows his cousin Leo immigrating from the Dominican Republic to the USA
2017
Camille Summers-Valli discusses her nomadic Navajo documentary
2015
Eli Durst captures the strange and unified goings-on in an American church basement
2019
Juan Ortiz-Arenas takes a different approach to documenting lockdown in his series N17, Covid-19
2020
Rich-Joseph Facun documents the lives of a small community in Appalachia, a place he now calls home
2021
Cute documentary about three six-year-old girls who are incredible at skateboarding
2014
Tyrone Lebon's spectacular, moving documentary about photographers
2014
Review of the Year 2016: filmmakers Becky and Joe
2016
Kin Coedel photographs tranquil moments of everyday life in Tibet
2023
Photography: It's our pleasure to present an interview with legendary 1960s photographer, Jerry de Wilde
2013
Using documentary photography, Ross Mantle engages with the world – and questions it
2019
"Unless you’ve put the graft in, you’ll be found out": the action-packed photography of Elaine Constantine
2018
Photographer Michael Turek documents the “absurdity, humour and grandeur” of Siberia
2020
Photographer Chris Hoare documents one street and the rapid changes it’s undergone
2019
Guillaume Blot documents food and football across the country in L’Autre Tour de France
2020
Kovi Konowiecki’s monochromatic photography is filled with “intuitive encounters”
2020
What A Wonderful World With David Attenborough
2011
George Butler in Africa
2009
Hannah Norton celebrates the humanity and spirit of the characters that shaped north London’s Community Cook Up
2025
Photography: Marco Kesseler documents fear and waiting in Ukraine
2014
Alex De Mora documents the key characters of Mongolia’s booming hip-hop scene
2020
Taschen’s monograph features Sebastião Salgado’s powerful photographs of the Kuwaiti oil fires
2016
We look at a former Prix Pictet winner's greatest series
2012
Incredible unpublished Henri Cartier-Bresson shots appear in the latest Rouleur
2012
Frederike Helwig’s snapshot of Nicaragua from 2004 now published
2017
Neil Martinson presents “stories of work, love, hardships, joy and community” in Hackney
2020
John Radcliffe Studio photographs Italy's migrant crisis quietly and sincerely
2015
Inside the archives of the Ministry of Defence’s UFO desk
2017
Director Angela Stephenson documents Manila's defiance for creative freedom in the narco-state
2018
David Gelb: Jiro Dreams of Sushi
2012
Photography: Rhiannon Adam's nostalgic polaroids of Margate
2013
Impressive new app documents 17 years of site-specific installation art in Texas
2012
"You have to hear this": Brian Shimkovitz tells us the story of Awesome Tapes From Africa
2018
Jack Latham uses photography to explore stories untold
2018
“Most of the photographs I take are bad”: Martin Parr brings the good stuff to a stunning new retrospective
2016
José Castrellón documents the workers smuggling fuel from Venezuela into Colombia
2019
The Gatekeepers is Alex Ingram's intimate record of the UK's most isolated islands
2018
Sam Bush tells us what it's like to photograph riots
2014
Thomas Prior and Jake Michaels shoot horse racing in their own inimitable way
2015
Photographer Lewis Khan on spending 18 months in the NHS
2017
Mustafah Abdulaziz’s 15-year photography project depicts the global water crisis
2017
Photography: Cait Oppermann shoots the world's largest sex convention (some NSFW)
2014
Molly Matalon is making her majestic photo diaries with “a crappy little point-and-shoot from 2004”
2024
Jamie Hawkesworth takes us on a photographic journey around The British Isles
2021
Forget pancakes, Lauren Maccabee photographs Ashbourne’s annual Shrovetide Football “free-for-all”
2024
Photographer Karolina Gembara on her solemn yet beautiful seven-year journey in Delhi
2019
Lynn Hershman Leeson: !Women Art Revolution
2011
Photography: Jackie Nickerson's photos of workers' environments
2014
Photographer Mark Hartman on travelling to Coney Island every day to make his Islands series
2017
Photography: Osma Harvilahti turns his camera on Kenya with extraordinary results
2013
Caleb Stein spent four years photographing the small town of Poughkeepsie
2019
A hilarious send-up of documentary conventions in Phil: A Tribute to a Man
2015
Natasha Sharapova on shooting the last two inhabitants of a rural village in Georgia
2018
Poignant images of life on the Lion Farm estate by Robert Clayton
2016
What do a Christian, a Muslim and a Millwall FC fan all have in common?
2020
Addressing migration on the island of Lesbos, Something is happening puts the refugee experience into focus
2021
This striking short documentary uses voicemails to celebrate Michael Brown’s 28th birthday
2024
A rare photographic insight into the everyday lives of the people of North Korea
2016
Luca Sage's Street Fight photographs are at once violent and beautiful
2012
Art: Freddy Dewe Mathews explores the bizarre history of a remote island
2013
Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records documents the origins of Jamaican and British youth culture
2018
Deividas Buivydas documents Boston, Lincolnshire, a town known as “the face of Brexit"
2017
Jenny Schweitzer's latest documentary explores gender, competition, and chess
2018
Rosa Fisher’s animated documentary tells of her father’s experience at boarding school
2020
Julia Autz documents Transnistria, a country steeped in Soviet nostalgia
2016
Market stalls, car boots and dogs; Timi Akindele-Ajani documents the familiar scenes of east London
2022
Photographer Enda Bowe documents the inhabitants of one east London housing estate
2019
Captain Beany is a short about Barry Kirk, the 64-year-old who’s dedicated his life to baked beans
2019
Documenting places and roasting people where necessary: meet photographer Sean Bradley
2020
Photography: The fascinating secret lives of harvest mice as captured by Klein/Hubert
2014
Jessica Chou on capturing the subtle moments within contemporary American culture
2021
Photojournalist George Etheredge on the influence of visual documentation and reportage
2018
Marcus Journey follows the 18-year-old Mormon elders tasked with converting people
2016
Photographer Lukas Korschan got on the wrong boat, but made a great series out of it
2018
Photographer Monica Alcazar-Duarte documents the sleepy town of Mars in The New Colonists
2018
“We’re here”: More Than Other makes a statement about the UK’s hidden Latinx community
2020
In her latest series photographer Catherine Hyland documents Bedouin life in Jordan
2019
I am Martin Parr: A heartfelt portrait of a British icon
2025
We speak to Ruvan Wijesooriya about his documentation of a Kabul school
2015
Rennie Ellis' amazing photographs of Australia’s infamous and famous
2014
Street Photography Now Project
2010
Palestine Underground shines a light on the West Bank’s underground music scene
2018
Conor Beary photographs "swan census" (and Martin Parr, on the sly)
2015
Photography: Nigel Shafran photographs unseen corners of the V&A for their Annual Review
2013
Alain Schroeder takes us behind the scenes of the Haenyeo, an over 60s group of female divers
2021
Through considered natural light and delicate colours, Farhan Hussain tells his subjects’ authentic stories
2021
Jessica Lehrman's photographic document of social revolution, Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street
2016
Magnus Holmes’ series Roommates examines the strength of a unique platonic relationship
2020
British youth culture captured perfectly in new mag Collection of Documentaries
2015
In Search Of Bill Callahan: Hanly Banks tells us how she made a film about one of music's shyest stars
2015
“To Leeds people – and far beyond – this is home”: Revisiting Peter Mitchell’s Early Sunday Morning
2020
A thought-provoking project focussing on 48 hours with Ron Jeremy
2014
Bronia Stewart captures life and partying on the fringes of the Towie set
2015
Divina enters into the life, rituals and magnetic beauty of legendary travesti Marcinha do Corintho
2022
Uncertain: a spellbinding documentary conflicting epic scenery and societal devastation in Texas
2017
Great story, great documentary short, Battle of the Drumlines from Show Love founder Peter Crosby
2012
Paul Hiller’s bittersweet photographs document the ultimate form of escapism
2019
Photography: Corey Arnold makes the world's most dangerous job look like quite a lot of fun actually
2014
Photographer Harley Weir documents the domestic spaces of Calais' migrant camps
2016
Jeremy Snell cinematically documents life on Ghana’s Lake Volta
2020
Exclusive: Tomas Leach explains the effort behind his new documentary about New York street photographer Saul Leiter
2012
Daniel Frost takes us on a cinematic adventure to Greenland
2017
Maggie Shannon documents four LA midwives as they deal with the influx of births during the pandemic
2021
“You have to live for now”: In Freefall, Aria Shahrokhshahi follows a 62-year-old skydiver as she prepares for her next jump
2025
Alma Har'el: Bombay Beach
2012
Hugh Kinsella Cunningham documents those at the heart of the Ebola crisis in DRC
2019
Stephen Shames documents the gritty reality of life in the Bronx
2015
Terri Timely’s documentary about a woman who makes super-realistic baby dolls
2016
“I had the chance to open the doors a little”: Stephan Gladieu photographs the people of North Korea
2021
Photographing the migrant crisis with a focus on people, not sensationalism
2016
Iain McKell looks back on his photographs of Weymouth’s seafront in 1976
2019
3 minutes 35 seconds of unadulterated satisfaction: The Making of the Leica M9-P
2012
Photographer Sophie Green on spontaneity, process and her latest series about traveller culture
2015
A “space for people to be angry and sad”: Gold and Ashes shines a light on the human stories at the heart of Grenfell
2021
Adu Lalouschek discusses his new BBC docu-series on diversifying the world of outdoor sports
2021
Photography: Isabella Rozendaal's ongoing project on worldwide methods of hunting
2013
The Reel History of Britain
2011
Jenny Schweitzer Bell’s documentary explores the “magic” world of youth chess
2020
Here 2014: We present the UK's hippest documentary photographer Ewen Spencer
2014
A photographic history of America by National Geographic
2016
The New York Times: The 6th Floor Blog
2011
David Brandon Geeting’s Neighbourhood Stroll sees the photographer Instagram posting on mass
2017
Peter Mitchell’s photographs of Leeds from 1979 published for the first time
2017
Sory Sanlé: the photographer that time forgot
2017
“A gift and a strong social conscience”: Ella Murtha on her mother’s astoundingly truthful photography
2017
Catherine Hyland records the complex environment of a Chilean lithium mine
2018
Rinchen Ato’s photographs of Tibet are her attempt at decolonising the region
2020
Vincent Girardot’s photo diary documents an alpine tour of fish, factories and firs
2015
Thomas Pratt photographs the effects of religion, natural disaster and globalisation on an island community
2019
Coal warehouses, a crane and five curious characters: The making of Double Take
2019
It’s what she would have wanted: Good Mourning documents the Queen’s passing
2024
Amy Lombard captures the life and times of a cult convenience store
2016
The less glamorous, but no less fun side of living history groups (NOT LARP!)
2015
Photographer McNair Evans captures strangers on 15-day train journeys
2015
Warhammer, fantasy and famously awful lighting: capturing the generous spirit of a tabletop gaming expo
2022
Hale County This Morning, This Evening: RaMell Ross' timely examination of race and representation
2019
Chris Nunn immerses himself in the turbulent regions of Ukraine
2014
Photographer Brandon Thibodeaux’s eight-year long portrait of Mississippi
2017
Review of the Year 2016: photographer Martin Parr
2016
Guannan Li captures Korean shamans, disappearing coastlines and artist’s utopias in her nomadic photography
2019
For the Love of Grass: Joel Barney’s tender portrait of football’s unsung heroes
2024
Alice Bibette depicts what it’s like for an LGBTQ+ person under the Taliban regime
2022
Photography: Daniel Ali's honest images show a very different side of Karachi
2013
Challenging documentary norms, Nolwenn Le Flanchec and Marie Godt artfully capture the German island of Langeoog
2021
Photographs document the life of a hoarder with smiles and sadness
2014
Nishant Shukla’s meditative series documents the hermits who live in the Himalayas
2019
Treasure Hunting: Tomas Leach explains his fascination with a treasure hunt in the wilderness
2015
Abbie Trayler-Smith photographs Iraqi women's lives after Isis
2018
Matt Kuleusz on what it’s like to photograph the “human side” of North Korea
2020
Into the Blue – Steve McCurry's Blue City is a magical tour-de-force in photography
2012
Nico Froehlich celebrates the places and faces of his hometown in south London
2022
Jalan and Jibril Durimel’s photography “tells the stories of all cultures of the diaspora”
2017
Juliet Klottrup shines a light on the cultural heritage and collective strength of the UK’s Travelling community
2024
Taschen publishes rarely seen photos of Muhammad Ali and George Foreman’s legendary fight
2017
Roxy Rezvany talks through the details of her documentary, Little Pyongyang
2018
A minimal look for ace young photographer journal, Collection of Documentaries
2016
Yelena Yemchuk’s photo series Odesa documents a Ukrainian city undergoing momentous change
2022
Photographer Svetlana Bulatova documents the environmental trauma of the Chechen wars
2019
Isaac Lock’s hilarious documentary goes behind the scenes of Fiorucci’s revival
2019
Rosie May’s curiosity-driven practice is equal parts nostalgic and heartwarming
2020
Satoshi Fujiwara's documentary photography questions the notion of reported reality
2016
Photography: 234 hours in Liverpool documented from an outsiders perspective
2014
How I Got Here: Kim Gehrig, director
2016
One man's mission to squat all over Paris makes hilarious viewing
2013
Preserving Syrian design history and graphics in the Arab world: Meet the Syrian Design Archive
2021
Concrete Citizens documents the residents of Soviet brutalist buildings in Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova
2020
Adam Ianniello’s series captures the “strange and unknown beauty” of Bombay Beach, California
2020
“The most extraordinary person, given a bit of time, can become extraordinary”: Jamie Hawkesworth captures The British Isles
2021
Marisol Mendez and Federico Kaplan document the impact of the climate crisis on the Colombian Wayuu people
2023
Will Robson-Scott's great short follows a skateboard enthusiast with Asperger's
2012
Artist Barbara Iweins on spending two years photographing all 10,532 objects in her house
2020
We chat to documentary photographer Mark Neville about his new show
2014
David Hurn’s trips to Arizona from 1979 – 2001 capture “ordinary people in ordinary pursuits”
2017
Joan Didion's nephew working on documentary of her extraordinary life
2014
Geordie Wood: photojournalist, fine art photographer or both?
2016
Interior Lives documents the unassimilated lives of the largest Chinese population outside of Asia
2019
Irreconcilable Truths: a 1500-page survey of legendary photographer Don McCullin’s work
2016
Gorgeous extreme sports documentary investigates the psychology of risk-taking
2013
Photography: The Table of Power sees Jacqueline Hassink document boardrooms
2013
As the first photographer welcomed by the Nez Perce tribe in 100 years, Hunter Barnes publishes his story
2020
Juliane Herrmann captures the day-to-day life of the Freemasons
2017
Rosanna Webster and Phoebe Henry’s cinematic portrait of Cuba
2017
Lockdown in pictures: ten photographs that document an extraordinary year
2021
Samanta Helou Hernandez uncovers the complex histories of East Hollywood’s immigrant communities
2022
Review of the Year 2015: Top 25 Moving Image
2015
Les Blank: Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1979)
2011
Bronia Stewart on her latest documentary series about Mexican gangs
2014
From the dancefloor to the afters, this hedonistic book is an unfiltered photographic history of queer nightlife
2026
Love Bites: an English cast of transvestites, pole dancers and wrestlers in seaside towns
2015
Xiaoxiao Xu takes us on an eye-opening journey of everyday life along the Great Wall of China
2021
Margaux Senlis photographs the effects of unexploded ordnance in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
2019
Jenny Schweitzer's latest short is an uplifting account of life in an American retirement home
2019
Fred Wiseman discusses his documentary masterpiece, National Gallery
2015
“Photography is a medium to show the world without shouting”: Brunel Johnson on his compelling documentary practice
2021
Yuri Andries captures life in the harsh and beautiful landscapes of Ladakh
2019
Photographer Calum Douglas documents the supernatural hotspots of North America
2016
New issue of Port delves into the fantasy world of documentary The Wolfpack
2015