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Tim Flach – Feline

For thousands of years, felines have captivated humanity with their beauty, intelligence, unpredictability, and fierce independence. In his latest work, world-renowned photographer Tim Flach explores this deep, sometimes one-sided but always enduring bond, revealing the many identities of cats—from their sacred status in ancient cultures to their viral superstardom in the digital age.

His new book, Feline, features more than 170 photographs, celebrating domestic cats while also highlighting their wild counterparts and the urgent conservation efforts to protect them and their habitats. Feline showcases the world’s most extraordinary cats, show champions, and internet icons with millions of followers. From pedigrees like the classic British Shorthair and curly coated Rex breeds to the werewolf-like Lykoi, Flach’s images capture the personality, character, and spirit of felines in a way never seen before.

A graduate of Central St. Martins, Tim Flach has become renowned for his highly stylised portraits – from great apes to bats, birds of prey to giant pandas – images far removed from traditional wildlife photography’s view of animals observed in their natural habitat. He has produced five major bodies of work – ‘Equus’, ‘Dogs: Gods’, ‘More Than Human’, ‘Endangered’ and ‘Birds’. His work has been published and exhibited internationally, including recent exhibitions at the National Museum of Natural History, Paris and the British Museum, London.

Lorenzo Grifantini – Greetings From Rome

A new series of work by Italian photographer Lorenzo Grifantini looks at the effects of mass tourism on the historic cultural capital city of Rome. The article below was recently featured as a Photo Essay in The Guardian.

GREETINGS FROM ROME

Greetings from Rome looks at how the historic centre of the Italian capital has gradually reorganised itself around the uninterrupted flow of tourism and the expectations projected onto it.

Rome has always been shaped by the people passing through it. Pilgrims, tourists and travellers have crossed the city for centuries, following routes that already existed in the imagination before arriving there. What feels different today is the scale of that movement, and the way the historic centre has gradually reorganised itself around it.

During the Jubilee year, Rome can often feel organised almost entirely around tourism. Groups gather, stop, queue, wait and disperse in repeating cycles around the city’s landmarks. Guided routes redirect pedestrian flows through barriers and temporary structures. Umbrellas rise above crowds. Monuments are experienced through phones and screens. Public space becomes a place of circulation, waiting and constant exposure.

Many of the photographs in Greetings from Rome were made simply by walking through the historic centre and observing these repeated gestures and moments of transition. Pilgrims resting beside temporary toilets outside Castel Sant’Angelo. Visitors sheltering from the heat around fountains and church steps. Crowds raising smartphones towards the Pietà inside St Peter’s Basilica. Again and again, the city seemed shaped less by permanence than by movement itself.

What interested me was not overtourism understood only as overcrowding, but the quieter transformation happening underneath it: the way historic cities slowly begin to reflect the expectations and behaviour of the people moving through them.

At times, the centre of Rome can feel suspended between sacred space, infrastructure and spectacle. Moments of devotion, leisure and consumption begin to overlap. Luxury advertising, souvenir kiosks, security systems and temporary barriers exist alongside some of the most symbolically charged monuments in the world, becoming part of the same visual landscape.

The project does not try to resolve these contradictions or judge the people inside them. Instead, it observes the city at street level, where tourism becomes physical: bodies exposed to heat, fatigue, waiting and repetition. Small gestures repeated thousands of times each day. Temporary presences moving through a city built around permanence.

Over time, the work became less about tourism itself and more about adaptation: how public space changes when it is organised around uninterrupted movement, visibility and passage.

Rome remains one of the most visited cities in the world, but it has also become a prototype for something larger — a historic city increasingly reshaped by the continuous flow of people passing through it.

Simon Roberts – After London

Both beautiful and disturbing at once, Simon Roberts’ After London is a series of portraits of just recognisable locations in London showing the city in a new and unusual light. The scenes are familiar but distant, as if shown after some catastrophic event. The tranquil, painterly palette lends to the emotional dissonance: this is the London we all know but somehow it is alien too.

In this series of images, dissolving portraits of a half-familiar London invite us to imagine a future transmuted by climate crisis. The city is de-peopled and eerie, its landmarks re-imagined as monuments to a displaced past. The photographs speak of loss, temporality and human fragility.

Simon Roberts is a British photographer renowned for his large-format, tableaux-style images that explore the relationship between people and landscape, focusing on themes of identity and belonging. Roberts has exhibited internationally, with his photographs held in major collections such as the George Eastman Museum and the V&A.

Cosmos by Karine Laval

A native of France, Karine Laval has successfully carved out a career in the New York photography world. She produces a highly distinctive and idiosyncratic style of images both for newspaper and magazine assignments as well as for her own personal work. Over the last 15 years, she has exhibited in three solo shows at Crane Kalman which have charted the evolution of Laval’s images from sun-drenched, bleached-out European lidos to darker, more abstracted dystopian landscapes.

Cosmos is a new chapter of Laval’s ongoing decade-long project Heterotopia, capturing public and private gardens around the world and transforming them into imaginary landscapes through analogue manipulations and experimentation. Cosmos focuses on Laval’s own garden on the North Fork of Long Island with the artist intervening in the landscape by integrating landscaping, gardening and art making as she transforms part of the space into a sustainable environment of meadows and fields of wildflowers using her own piece of land as a giant outdoor studio. Laval has been documenting the process for the past year across the seasons creating lush, ethereal landscape—characteristic of her exploration of nature, perception, and transformation.

Laval’s work has been widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the US and internationally. She has recently worked on commissions for prestigious brands such as Hermès and Louis Vuitton, architects and institutions, including a monumental installation at 22 Bishopsgate in London, an exhibition of large lightboxes in the New York City subway, and an art commission by Peter Marino for the Cheval Blanc hotel in the newly renovated La Samaritaine in Paris. Her most recent commission (seen here) is a large lightbox installation for Christian Dior’s flagship new store in New York.

Gaia – Jaume Llorens

The Gaia series takes its name from the hypothesis by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis which describes Earth as a single superorganism in which living beings and the rest of the planet establish a self-regulating equilibrium that ensures the survival of the whole. Each image is a diptych created by juxtaposing two photographs of natural elements found in Llorens’ local environment. When put together, they generate a third image that combines these two into a harmonious whole, a new and balanced reality created from this simple juxtaposition.

The work aims to reflect on the need to re-establish our connection with nature, too long neglected, and the responsible part we play to ensure the survival of our planet. The series has once again just been recognised in the LensCulture Critics’ Choice Awards 2025 selected from 1000s of entries from over 120 countries. Jaume’s work is also currently on display in The Alternative Landscape exhibition at In-Dependance by Ibasho Gallery in Antwerp alongside artists including Albarran Cabrera and Casper Faassen.

Nature and landscape are the raw materials of my work. I approach them
contemplatively, alone and in silence, open to unplanned moments that move me, whether aesthetically or emotionally. I work almost exclusively in black & white, drawn to simplicity and communicating with as few few elements as possible. Rather than explaining, I try to suggest and leave room for interpretation. Much of my work is based on the juxtaposition of
photographs. I find it fascinating how placing two images side by side can create a resonance between them and transform them. It is not just about combining two photos, but about how elements from each can take on new meanings simply by being placed next to one another – Jaume Llorens, 2025.

Ebb & Flow – Ellie Davies

Ellie Davies new series Ebb & Flow turns her attention to the The South West Coast Path and
the South Dorset Ridgeway, ancient trails that stretch from Dorset in the east to Cornwall in the far southwest of England. For millennia these natural elevated byways have been critically important to local people. With expansive views across the Jurassic landscape to the sea beyond, these highpoints still evoke the ancient communities who used them as vantage points and safe routes through hostile lands and as sacred destinations for religious rites and burials.

Long barrows, burial mounds, stone circles and the hillforts of Chalbury and Maiden Castle date from the Neolithic to the Bronze Ages, rivalling Stonehenge and Avebury in historical importance. Standing in these ancient locations the past is tangibly close, but even in these protected landscapes human impact can be seen everywhere. Plastic on the beaches, nets on the shore, dead seabirds and fish, farm runoff and sewage outflows, moving from land into rivers and from rivers to the sea.

Like the manmade environmental pollutants, the swirling and unnatural looking cloudscapes in these images are (intentionally) artificial forms, out of place against the backdrop of ancient naturallandscapes. Made by throwing and scattering organic liquids into water, the motion draws out tendrils and creates swirling shapes. These false clouds are suspended and stretched across the sky – thunderclouds, mists and storms that don’t belong. A stark reminder of the climate emergency, they foreshadow the ecological concerns of climate change against an ancient natural world teetering on the edge.

Thailand – Stephen Burridge

Stephen Burridge is a London-based photographer. Having completed his degree in photography, Stephen has developed a successful career in the world of fashion photography. He combines this with his social documentary work which uses candid observation and wit to convey the urban and suburban culture of London and the surrounding areas. A collection of portraits from this series, ‘Homegrown’, are dedicated to the cultural diversity seen on those streets.

In a new series on Thailand presented here, the photographs are more about the human environment – the space around – than his focus on traditional portraiture. They give a real sense of the chaos, the noise and the raw messiness of Bangkok. They give a real sense of the chaos, the noise and the raw mayhem of Bangkok. Shot in Chinatown in the Capital of Thailand – this area, a throwback to a time seen before the influence of the global stage, seems to pay homage to the transitional period of the 90s, as Capitalist ideals from the West seep into the fabric of Thai culture. These are the images from a ‘Westerner’, a traveller who serves you as an observer, a guest at the mercy of the street. This is Thailand’s ‘Big Smoke’, where we are intertwined in the Bangkok hustle.

Burridge’s work in the fashion industry and influence from the likes of Tom Wood, William Eggleston and Stephen Shore has given him an unusual approach to both his fashion and documentary work which fuse and overlap both styles. His work has been published in various fashion magazines including ODDA and Unpolished, international photography print titles such as Eyes Open Magazine and Lowdown, and featured in photography competitions including The International Colour Awards, the Belfast Photofestival 2019 and The Taylor Wessing Photography Portrait Prize 2024

Chromatic Oasis – Joseph Ford

On a recent trip to Egypt, Joseph Ford photographed this waterpark on the Red Sea coast. Itsarchitecture draws inspiration from Ricardo Bofill’s “La Muralla Roja”, a Spanish apartment complex celebrated for its vibrant colours and geometric forms, itself influenced by traditional North African casbahs. The series has won or been nominated for several awards including Art Directors Club New York 2025, D&AD 2025, Applied Arts, Canada – 2025, Association of Photographers 2024, Trieste Photo Days, Italy – 2024 and the Spotlight Awards – 2024.

Joseph’s pictures emphasise geometry, colour contrasts, and human presence, using angles that make the architecture appear almost abstract. Occasional human figures add scale, reinforcing the space’s surreal quality. By capturing the architectural interplay between the historic references and this modern construction, Joseph highlights the cyclical nature of design, where contemporary structures re-contextualise historical aesthetics.

Joseph’s personal work has won him numerous awards and has inspired films and campaigns for LVMH, Missoni, Lacoste and many others. His work concentrates on people and optical illusions. It is held in various private collections and in the permanent collections of the Hamburg Art and Design Museum, the Musée d’Art Urbain & Street Art in France and the Photography Museum of Lishui, China. His work has been exhibited as part of numerous festivals, including Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles, Zürich Aufsehen Festival, Andorra Land Art Biennale, Trieste Photo Days and the Lishui Photography Festival.

Andy Lo Pò – Tombstoners

Andy Lo Pò is an award-winning photographic artist born in Melbourne, Australia now based inBrighton, UK. He studied photography at the University of the Arts London and now spends his time working on personal work as well as commissioned projects. Following the huge success of his ‘Into the Sky’ series, which captured people jumping off Brighton Pier on the hottest ever day on record (19th July 2022), when temperatures reached a record 40.3°C (104.5°F), we are now pleased to present ‘Tombstoners’, a side project from that series with a very different aesthetic.

This black and white photo project captures the fleeting, weightless moments of people mid- flight as they leap from unseen heights into the unknown. Stripped of context, the sea is absent, leaving only bodies suspended in space—twisted, stretched, curled—each frozen at the peak of their descent. The stark contrast of monochrome heightens the drama, emphasizing the silhouettes against the empty sky. Without the water below, the images blur the line between freedom and danger, exhilaration and risk. It is a study of movement, of surrender to gravity, and of the silent poetry found in bodies caught between the leap and the inevitable fall.

Andy Lo Pò has won several awards and had his work exhibited and recognised by the National Portrait Gallery as part of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Prize, Creative Review Photo Annual, The International Photography Awards, and The Getty Prestige Grant. To see more of this series please, click the tab below.

The Catalogue of Imaginary Beings – Johanna Goodman

Johanna Goodman is an American illustrator and collagist. Based in New York, Johanna studied at Boston University’s School of Fine Art and Parsons School of Design (NYC) where she graduated with a BA of Fine Arts in Illustration in 1992. She has been a freelance Illustrator ever since. Her work has garnered awards from The Society of Publication Design, American Illustration and Communication Arts.

In 2017 Johanna was awarded the New York State Council for the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship grant for her on-going body of work The Catalogue of Imaginary Beings. The images, developed from over twenty years of portraiture and collage work, explore a range of themes in popular culture, including the role of the individual in fashion, in history, in the artistic imagination and draws inspiration from magical realism, surrealism and symbolism.

Johanna’s work has been featured in a wide variety of publications from The Guardian and Marie Claire to Vice and Creative Review. Her work has also been included in several books about Illustration, Art and Collage including The American Illustration Annual Book, 3×3: The Best of International Illustration, Communication Arts Illustration Annual, and she was profiled in The Age of Collage: Contemporary Collage in Modern Art published by Gestalten.

Andy Lo Pò – Fragmented Memories

We are very pleased to present the first images from a new, an on-going series of work by Australian photographer Andy Lo Pò. Whilst in the process of purchasing some second-hand photographic equipment from an American seller on e-Bay, Lo Pò agreed to buy some undeveloped rolls of film being offered by the seller. To his surprise, he found 100s of images from high school yearbooks, mostly from the 1980s, none with any recoded details of names or locations – this became the starting point for a new project looking at identity and memory.

“Fragmented Memories revolves around a collection of high school yearbook portraits that were discovered, discarded and forgotten in a dumpster in Ohio. These photographs, found as negatives, became the foundation of my nostalgic exploration into the concept of identity, diversity, (or the lack thereof ), ultimately capturing the essence of the teenage experience in 1980’s Mid-West America.”

Andy Lo Pò is an award-winning photographic artist born in Melbourne, now based in Brighton.
He studied photography at the University of the Arts London and now spends his time working on personal work as well as commissioned projects. Andy has won several awards and had his work exhibited and recognised by the National Portrait Gallery as part of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Prize, Creative Review Photo Annual, The International Photography Awards, and The Getty Prestige Grant.

Juame Llorens – Gaia II

The gallery are pleased to present new images from Jaume Llorens new on-going series ‘Gaia’. The series was recently voted ‘Top 10 Picks’ at the prestigious LensCulture Critics’ Choice Awards 2023. The series takes its name from the hypothesis by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis which describes Earth as a single superorganism in which living beings and the rest of the planet establish a self-regulating equilibrium that ensures the survival of the whole.

The series consists of diptychs created by juxtaposing two photographs of natural elements found in Llorens’ local environment. These elements generate a third image that combines these two photographs into a harmonious whole, which differs from the simple sum of its parts, as described by Ralph Gibson with his ‘overtones’. New and balanced realities can be created from this simple juxtaposition. The work aims to reflect on the need to re-establish the connection with nature, neglected for too long, and to feel a responsible part of this marvellous gear once again to ensure the survival of our planet.

Jim Casper (Editor-in-Chief & Co-Founder of LensCulture) on judging the series, commented: “These are masterly diptychs. Each image is remarkable in its own right – the lighting, cropping, the attentiveness to many fine details, the wonders of nature – all of these qualities came through. And when two images are paired so thoughtfully, with such visual grace, the sense of wonder and awe expands and delights even more intensely as the visual echoes reverberate.”

Tria Giovan: Loisaida New York Street Work 1984–1990

In 1984, Tria Giovan moved to a tenement building on Clinton Street on New York City’s Lower East Side. She wandered the streets photographing as if in a foreign land. Loisaida— as some knew it—was as gritty, authentic and humble as it was exotic, vibrant and colourful. The melding cultures and humanity she encountered inspired these photographs.

Giovan left the neighbourhood and the work behind in 1990 without ever editing or producing the majority of the photographs. The negatives languished until the pandemic. Now, the work has now been collated in a new publication from Damiani Books. Tria Giovan: Loisaida New York Street Work 1984–1990 is a time capsule; a cultural and historical record of a 1980s Lower East Side that fostered robust communities of diverse populations, including the many immigrants who took pride in making Loisaida their home, and contributes to an historical visual legacy of the ever-evolving, always evocative Lower East Side.

The photography of Tria Giovan (born 1961, raised in the Caribbean) has been defined by in- depth, timely, and thoughtful subject exploration that intertwines the personal and the observational. A documentarian with archival intentions, she is the author of Cuba: The Elusive Island (1996), Sand Sea Sky (2012), The Cuba Archive (2017) and Loisaida (2023). Exhibited in the US and internationally, her photographs are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Library of Congress, the Museum of the City of New York, and the New York Public Library.

Marisa Culatto • Flora

UK-based artist Marisa Culatto’s ‘Flora’ series features a selection of plant life that has been composed, frozen and then photographed in the manner of a classic still life. There is a conscious act of staging but also an element of chance encounter to these works as the artist restricted herself to collecting the vegetation she came across on walks or in the day-to-day tasks of her daily life. As a consequence, each still life features plants that were found near one another and in a specific part of the world, such as the South East of England.

The conceptual intention addresses beauty, the loss of it, and the vain attempt to hold on to it. Through these works, Culatto tries to understand and accept the value of fading youth; Flora is her personal way of exploring and coming to terms with it. Ultimately, this body of work also speaks of the very act of photography: to freeze the moment. The series has recently been published as a book – Flora: A Frozen English Garden.

Jo Crowther • Landscapes

Jo Crowther was born in York in 1963, and a childhood of much travelling resulted in her attending 14 different schools. The constant travel heightening her observation skills and awareness of her surroundings, and Crowther began recording her daily life through photography and processing and printing her own photos at age 14. Her early 20’s were divided between assisting an advertising location photographer and travelling extensively on her own personal projects to Asia, America and Australia. A large collection of her photographs from this time are held in the Royal Geographical Society’s archives.

In 1995 Crowther won her first award in the landscape section from the Association of Photographers for the image ‘Pyramids’. A silver award soon followed this from the Royal Photographic Society. Commissioned by the Royal Mail in 1999, Crowther worked with Pentagram to produce a stamp image for the Millennium series, which went on to win a prestigious Design & Art Director’s award.

Crowther specializes in photographing natural surroundings in soothing sepia tones, the warm tones and dramatic light and shadows of these introspective images often present reality from a slightly abstract perspective. Crowther has exhibited extensively in the UK, as well as around Europe.