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2012Duffy: The Lost Portraits
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2012Patrick Simpson photographs a different side to prison life
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2021Saul Bromberger has spent decades using photography to understand the American way of life
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2017Photographer Zuza Krajewska's fragile portraits of Polish young offenders
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2019Charlie Kwai photographs Ghanaians buried in sand to avoid the heat – or just for a laugh
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2012Photographer Arnhel de Serra gets under the skin of British culture
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2023Photographer Jack Smethers documents the community resisting Tottenham’s gentrification
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2020Sophie Harris-Taylor’s recent series reveals the realities and complexities of breastfeeding
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2012Andrew Meredith: Slaughtermen
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2020Jadwiga Brontē challenges stereotypes about maternity in prison with therapeutic photography
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2019Turning her lens to those around her, Danna Singer reveals the story of a working class community
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2017Eric Bachmann photographs a retirement home for penniless musicians
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2012Daniel Shea's photos are more than a metaphor for those living in coal country
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2016James Wrigley, the social documentary photographer with honest flair
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2017Scarlett O’Flaherty’s photographs focus on social documentary and slow-journalism
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2015Portraits of London’s squat communities from the 1970s, 80s and 90s
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2021Margaret Mitchell’s new book documents the social and economic deprivation of her family over the course of 20 years
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2012Linda Forsell's Life A Blast takes a very human look at a troubled region
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2019Davina Jogi's The Portrait examines Zimbabwe after Mugabe
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2019Photographer Benedetta Ristori gives visibility to migrant women in the Italian care industry
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2022Should only working-class photographers take pictures of working-class places?
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2012Jenn Ackerman bears witness to the reality of the criminally insane
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1972Oregon Mental Patients In The Wilds - Bill Eppridge
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2015Candid photographs taken in a Hungarian children's home from Monika Merva
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2016The Unwanted: Thilde Jensen's portrait of homelessness in America
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2019Café Royal Books is an impressive archive of decades of British documentary photography
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2025Leeds during Thatcher: An alternative vision of northern coming of age
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2019Juan Brenner documents the 500-year-old scars of war and colonisation in Guatemala
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2014Brian Finke spent four years photographing US law enforcement
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2020Sandra Mickiewicz captures the surprising beauty of Jaywick, the most deprived town in Britain
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2024Anthony Luvera is changing perceptions of those experiencing homelessness through assisted self-portraits
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2017Photographer Dana Lixenberg's 22-year-long series in one of LA's oldest housing projects
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1964Mrs. Rose & Negro Children - Stan Wayman
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2021Tariq Zaidi’s new book documents the impact of two notorious rival gangs in El Salvador
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2018Photographer Giulia Mangione explores why Danes are the happiest people in the world (NSFW)
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2020Peter Bialobrzeski chats to us about Give My Regards to Elizabeth, his documentation of 90s Britain
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2016Jack Springthorpe documents a northern congregation in rapid decline
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2021Relive the joy of parties and festivals in Jussi Puikkonen’s nostalgic photo series
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2017Photographer Landon Nordeman captures prom night in Flint, Michigan
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2019Mahesh Shantaram presents a look beneath the glossy veneer of Indian weddings
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2024“It’s imperative that we be the architects of our narrative”: Adraint Khadafhi Bereal on documenting Black college life
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2019Toni Kuraga documents the experiences of workers in Almeria's "Sea of Plastic"
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2020For 25 years No Olho da Rua has captured the lives of those living on the street in the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte
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2025The life and times of Dennis Morris, the man behind some of music’s most iconic photographs
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2018Peter Funch returns to New York to document visual similarities in the city's workers
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