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Uncensored books is a comprehensive look at publications that consider the uses and abuses of the image in our society - especially by those in power, which is going on show in Palermo, Sicily today as part of a wider book festival
Rose Marie Cromwell went beyond the cliches to build an expressionistic homage to the Cuba she knows and loves. "I wanted to make images that investigated my complicated relationship to this specific place, rather than trying to document something 'about' Cuba," she says.
Casting from the street and creating near-future looks, South African photographer Kristin Lee Moolman is creating "a new African mythology", say her fans, which has already featured in an exhibition at Somerset House, and in fashion magazines such as Vogue
"My photography is me, my doubts and my hopes," says Spanish photographer Albert Bonsfills, who has shot major projects in China and Japan. "My camera is a mirror, a tool to help me understand myself as well as a way of showing other people's lives, even people I have nothing in common with at first – people born 10,000 miles away from me."
"I enjoy an incredible freedom in how I work, in what I photograph or when I do it," the 20-year Magnum member tells BJP. "By signing that contract I had the feeling I would lose so much more than what I would gain."
To crowdfund or not to crowdfund – that is the question. In the final instalment of our photobooks series, photographers and a publishing expert spill the beans on how to successfully fund and promote your photobook.
After eight months of fighting, Iraqi forces are close to retaking the city of Mosul. Photographer Tommy Trenchard has spent much of the last three months documenting the conflict in his project The Battle for Mosul. His photographs cover the bitter street-fighting in the western half of Mosul, as well as the war's effect on the city's residents - over half a million of whom have been displaced since the rise of ISIS in 2014.
Fiercely independent, Tom Johnson left school at 17 and dropped out of college, before setting up his own studio and carving out a career for himself in fashion photography. He's now shooting for titles such as AnOther, SSAW, Buffalo Zine and Man About Town, as well as campaigns for Opening Ceremony and Faye Toogood, and is represented by Mini Title - whose founder first saw his work in BJP.
"As a photographer, you are basically only able to create an image of how you see someone rather than maybe what is really there," says Jenny Lewis, whose portraiture has been published in two books, and whose work was selected for the inaugural Portrait of Britain show
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