SOURCE

Archived since Summer 1992
122 issues
Complete Archive Quarterly
SOURCE is the essential magazine for intelligent and independent discussion of contemporary photography. Each issue brings you the latest news, portfolios by emerging and established photographers, well researched feature articles, reviews of the most important exhibitions and books, and specialist columns offering deep analysis on various photography related subjects.

Published since 1992, Source is a quality quarterly magazine that provides readers with a critical discussion of photographic practice and an appreciation of the importance of photography in the wider culture. Your subscription will include access to over a dozen back issues of the magazine.

Photographers recently featured in Source include: Victor Burgin, Hannah Collins, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Sarah Dobai, Richard Gilligan, Emma Hart, Anthony Haughey, John Hilliard, Karen Knorr, Sirkka-Liisa Knottinen, Hew Locke, Mari Mahr, Trish Morrissey, Suzanne Mooney, Wendy McMurdo, Mark Neville, Roger Palmer, Steven Pippin, Paul Seawright, Simon Starling, John Stezaker, Jane and Louise Wilson and Donovan Wylie.

Our regular contributors include leading writers on contemporary photography such as David Campany, David Bate, David Brittain, Pavel Buchler, Stephen Bull, Justin Carville, Mark Durden, David Evans, Colin Graham, Alison Green, Roger Hargreaves, Rebecca Hopkinson, Daniel Jewesbury, Martha Langford, Anthony Luvera, Mary Warner Marien, Alicia Miller, Matt Packer, Eugenie Shinkle, Lucy Soutter, Ian Walker, Edward Welch and Judith Williamson.

Latest issue
Myths: Ian Walker revisits Martin Parr's classic photobook The Last Resort and discovers the book reads and looks quite different today. Ann Marie Curran has been finding out if photography education is in decline. Historian Edward Madigan explains why the Imperial War Museum is collecting material about the Irish War of Independence.

PORTFOLIOS: Dragana Jurišić’s The Last Balkan Cowboy follows in the footsteps of cult pre-war Yugoslavian spaghetti western director Hari Džekson. Jurišić retraces his story and reenacts one of his films using the local population as actors from both sides of the ethnic divide. Lucie Armstrong’s new series Repossessed and Trance so far! looks back at her childhood home and a small-town Cumbrian nightclub as a portal to her teenage years and the lost futures she imagined on the dancefloor.
Anthony Haughey’s series Eastern Front focuses on landscapes and communities along the Russian border in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania under renewed anxieties of war. Krasimira Butseva introduces the work and notes that ‘what repeats in each image is, in fact, a trace of silence: a quietness whose frequencies rise if the eye stays long enough with the image.’

REVIEWS: Exhibitions of the work of Catherine Opie, Joanna Piotrowska, Åsa Johannesson and Jackie Nickerson. Book reviews: Henri Airo restages a crime, Photographing Ambiguity, Sophy Rickett's Pissing Women, essays by Takuma Nakahira and much more 

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  • First Issue: Summer 1992
  • Latest Issue: Summer 2026
  • Issue Count: 122
  • Published: Quarterly
  • ISSN: 2059-6790