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.

The Elements: Conohar Scott writes about Fire, one of the elements we thought we could harness for our own ends but which has come back to burn us. Scott surveys the approaches photographers have taken to record uncontrollable fire’s devestating consequences in the world and on the climate.
 
PORTFOLIOS: Holly Birtles' Volcano Mother involves staging performances with a cast playing different volcanoes. Wearing a mixture of improvised costumes and props they act out roles that are both madcap and explosive. Water is the focus of Sam Laughlin's Spinning Away which records the Severn Estuary using large format black and white photography with exposure times ranging from five minutes up to two hours. The Earth is the subject of Shane Hynan’s Beneath | Beofhód which explores the culture and landscape of bogs in the Irish midlands.

REVIEWS: Exhibitions of work by Ernest Cole, Ian MacDonald and Peter Kennard alongside group shows of Contemporary African and Ukranian Photography. Book reviews including Julius Deutschbauer, recent Photonovels, Robin Gillanders, Mafalda Rakoš, Emma Aars, Cold War Photographic Diplomacy, Mario Giacomelli and much more...

Also included the 2024 MA Graduate Photography supplement.