From the series Porcelain Souls © Inuuteq Storch. All images courtesy the artists In the main Foreigners Everywhere exhibition and around Venice, photography fulfils an earnest documentary function How useful is it to focus on a single art form at an exhibition as sprawling and dense as the Venice Biennale? For the...

©André Josselin Europe’s most popular professional photo sharing software eases the collaboration between artist and brand Commercial photographer André Josselin is all about authenticity – or at least creating the feel of it for clients. One week he might be taking pictures of FC Bayern Munich players away from the...

Paddy Summerfield © Alex Schneideman One of several artists inspired by Summerfield’s iconic Mother and Father series, Schneideman reflects on the life of an Oxford icon Paddy Summerfield was broadly considered Oxford’s greatest photographer since Henry Fox Talbot. He was imbued with the city’s unique history and art...

All images © Tara Laure Claire Sood Tara Laure Claire Sood is fascinated by South India’s retro portrait studios, reimagining them with fresh Bollywood and fashion tropes Tara Laure Claire Sood has long been intrigued by portrait studios, recognising their importance in Indian photographic history and as sites of self-fashioning...

Robert Zhao Renhui in the forest around Gillman Barracks, Singapore, 2023. Portrait and work images all courtesy the artist Ahead of his show at the Venice Biennale, Renhui discusses anthropocentrism – and how his work addresses this thorny, colonially influenced issue Getting to grips with Robert Zhao Renhui’s art...

All images © Alice Zoo Known for his portrait and landscape work, Kander has a meditative approach in his London studio – and a profoundly subjective take on making images Nadav Kander’s Kentish Town studio is bright, with windows on two sides of a large room, its walls made of pale, exposed brick. The feeling is airy...