Lara Shipley – The Passerby
In the Sonoran Desert, a vast rural space that bridges the border of the United States and Mexico, people continue to pass through, as they have been doing for thousands of years. They are propelled…
We Are Not What You Say We Are – An Interview With Jonathan Moore
Jonathan Moore is a British photographer based in London and uses images to capture the stories the world has to tell. His work has seen him travel to places such as Bangladesh, Lebanon and Georgia,…
AND 2020 Book Launch
Each year at Then There Was Us we strive to celebrate the outstanding work of those who are consistently creating unique and powerful stories, published in a beautifully printed annual.
Migration as Avant-Garde
To migrate is far away from what many of us really know: when we speak of someone living abroad for a year, or going to work elsewhere, we do not speak of them of having…
Daniel Kovalovszky: An Infernal Play
In 1945 in Hungary, Mátyás Rákosi the leader of the Hungarian Communist Party, following the Soviet example, introduced a new Stalinist dictatorship in which human rights were severely violated. He established the State Protection Security…
The Home & Migration Issue
Within this issue we begin our exploration of the definitions, meanings and circumstances of Home & Migration. We begin to unravel the sprawling and extensive concepts of home and in turn, the effects and consequences…
Martha Cooper: Taking Pictures – A Life Long Retrospective
American Photographer Martha Cooper has documented the formerly underground culture of street art for close to four decades. Throughout her career she has been at the forefront of photographing graffiti, street art and various other…
Vulcano By Giulia De Marchi
If you visit Sicily, you cannot leave without visiting the volcano. Etna is, like all active volcanoes, (in fact, even more due to its unique majesty) the meeting point between black and white, heaven and…
Stewart Weir’s Afghanistan, After The Fall
During the first world war, field bakeries became a staple within every infantry division. The demands of war later forced a huge expansion of the bakeries which provided bread, a staple ration of each soldier.…
The Othernet
Imagine another internet. Location specific, not through geofencing, but through the physical limits of its infrastructure, able to be visited by subway or on foot, unique like the very neighbourhood its in.service providers, there are…
AND 2020: An Annual Selection of Influential Documentary and Portrait Photographers
AND is an annual selection of some of the best up and coming influential documentary and portrait photographers showcasing poignant and inspiring imagery from across the globe.
We Give You Our Life And Blood
“Hell could be such a place - a place of suffering and death.” This “Hell” is now also known as the square at the heart of an uprising in Iraq.
Between Revolution and War in El Salvador
In 1984 photographer Mike Goldwater travelled to El Salvador’s northern province of Chalatenango to record the history of the peasant movement in the region and the role of campesinos in the Salvadorean revolution. These pictures,…
Things That I Know, Things That You Know
Things That I Know, Things That You Know is a combination of human form, objects and written text. Heather Rattray describes her series as a visual representation of the process of learning a new language.
The Florida Heartland: Familiarities Of The South
Born in New Orleans and now living and working in South Florida, Brian McSwain’s work is a documentation of his movements around the area he lives. His photographs hold a stillness that is inspired by…
Peter Mitchell: Early Sunday Morning
Early Sunday Morning by Peter Mitchell is a documentation of the city of Leeds throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s.
Shirley Baker: A Different Age
Later this month, James Hyman Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of the prolific street photographer Shirley Baker, in a show that celebrates the elderly.
A Global Pandemic, a Caesarean, and a New Born Baby.
As we explore stories from the pandemic our first feature is the outstandingly powerful work of Mexico based photographer Camila Vázquez Mellado, documenting the birth of a her nephew during the Covid-19 outbreak.
The Education I Never Had
In search of a better life for his son, at the age of three, Vikram Kushwah was sent to boarding school in the Himalayan foothills, this being the place where he would spend his most…