Photography & Film

From Fox Talbot and Martin Parr to film festivals and biennales, this is the place to find the best shows from the stars of screen and lens across hundreds of UK museums, galleries and contemporary arts venues. Shoot away...

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Look/13 festival takes top photographers to Liverpool

August Sander, Rankin and Martin Parr are a few of the artists in a photography festival taking over Liverpool's diverse array of galleries for the next month.

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Museums at Night Report: David Blandy's Biter: Hip-Hop and Freud at the Whitechapel

In Freud’s study, amid an unblinking collection of classical and Egyptian artefacts, David Blandy delivers lines of broken Hip-Hop verse to the psychoanalyst’s unoccupied seat.

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Gasworks gallery presents Resolution 978 HD: An Exhibition by Model Court

Model Court, a collective of visual and conceptual artists, provides a striking interrogation of the controversial use of technology in universal jurisdiction.

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Ordinary/Extra/Ordinary unites Jeremy Deller, Tracey Emin and more at The Public

Vitality, diversity and humour are the aims for curator David Thorp in a British Council touring show which brings the likes of David Shrigley and Martin Creed to West Bromwich.

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Maurizio Anzeri creates photo-sculptures in solo show commissioned by Chapter

Maurizio Anzeri creates imagined identities from found photographs and abstract embroidery as part of Diffusion, Cardiff's Biennial International Photography Festival.

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Tom Hunter finds shrines from a disappearing world in Findings of Birmingham

In an exhibition of pinhole photographs at a central square in Birmingham, acclaimed photographer Tom Hunter takes a journey back into the country's industrial heritage and his own history.

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The Last Stand: Marc Wilson's wartime defences at Royal Armouries Fort Nelson

Marc Wilson's project to photograph World War II defences has resulted in a thought-provoking series of ethereal "documentary landscapes" at Fort Nelson.

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Diffusion: Inaugural Cardiff International Festival of Photography makes for great May

Cardiff's inaugural photography festival is also notable for international vantage points ranging from industrial Portugal to rural Norway.

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Turner Prize 2013 shortlist revealed for Derry-Londonderry

David Shrigley, Laure Prouvost, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and Tino Sehgal are the four artists who will compete for this year's Turner Prize.

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Flowers and live butterflies in a celebration of life for Alexander James' Intersection

Working with live butterflies and cut underwater flowers in his studio for 80 days, the photographer bases his new work on Dutch Master paintings and vanitas.

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A view through the Urban Eye of Charlie Phillips at Nottingham's New Art Exchange

Growing up in an at-times hostile West London, Charlie Phillips began portraying the Caribbean community of the 1950s and 1960s. His photos are hidden stories of life.

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British artist Katy Dove explores how Thought Becomes Action at Exeter's Spacex

Drawings, watercolours, etchings, paintings, animations and musical interpretations in a show pondering our inner and outer workings at the Exeter gallery.

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Photographer Sebastião Salgado's Genesis at the Natural History Museum in London

Having seen deforestation on his native Brazilian farm, acclaimed photographer Sebastião Salgado went to five corners of the earth in pursuit of a portrait of the natural world.

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Laura Morrison and Maite Zabala impress and perplex at Void, Derry-Londonderry

Two recent graduates from the MFA course at Goldsmiths translate well to Northern Ireland with equal servings of catastprophe and mystery.

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CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year 2013 at the Royal Geographical Society

See some of the selected pictures ahead of the opening of a powerful showcase of environmental photography opening in London in April.

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