SOURCE

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.

Negative Space:  we have asked two scholars of Fascism in the 1930s, Jennifer Evans and Jonathan Long, to compare that period with today. Is there a visual culture of far right politics that we can recognise in today’s political communications? Are there lessons to be learnt?

 PORTFOLIOS: Felicity Hammond explores the generation of imagined and realised built environments in photographic, mixed media and site-specific installations. The curator Hannah Redler-Hawes talks to the artist about her work. Jan McCullough's work Jigs shows the custom-built tools made to assist in the repeated cutting and securing of materials in the making of film sets. John MacClean's work System is made up of buildings in England repurposed into McDonald’s branches. Owen Hatherley, says ‘There’s no real here at all... It’s a vision of radical inauthenticity, a series about historical cosplay.’ 

REVIEWS: Exhibitions about The Face magazine, Views of War, the representation of heroin use, and protest photography. Book reviews: including Photography and South Africa, Annie Ernaux, Fred Ritchin on Photography in the Age of AI, Michael Collins and much more...