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.

WOUNDS: Jason Bate has collected stories from the familes of injured First World War servicemen about the role photography played in their recovery. Richard West talks to Deborah Padfield about her photographs, made collaboratively with patients, that try to visualise their chronic pain.

PORTFOLIOS:  Gareth McConnell’s In the Shadow of the Butterfly Bush show high saturated portraits and close ups of flowers but the work is a continuation of his projects about post-conflict trauma in Northern Ireland. Ala Buisir’s work Tint of Trauma documents the experience of three women whose lives have been shattered by the ‘War on Terror’. Suella Holland’s A Joining of Self explores photography and stitching as a means of articulating childhood trauma.

REVIEWS: Exhibitions of work by Akihiko Okamura, Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Alexis Hunter alongside group shows about Working Class Photography, Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron. Book reviews including Shining Lights: Black Women Pho- tographers in 1980s-90s Britain, Pharmakon by Teju Cole, the Belgian Photonovel, Melissa McCarthy's Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro
and much more...

Also included the 2024 BA Graduate Photography supplement.