BJP Issue 7921: Resist / European Kinship

Recent history has been defined by resistance to power in many forms, from major protests sweeping our cities to a newfound suspicion of the media and the information circulated in it. Our latest issue honours the act of resistance and considers how photography can help – and how it can be part of the problem. Wolfgang Tillmans discusses his upcoming exhibition at the Pompidou centre in Paris with BJP Editor Diane Smyth. Titled Rien ne nous y préparait − Tout nous y préparait [Nothing could have prepared us - everything could have prepared us] it will take place in the vacated Public Information Library, and Tillmans will use photography and installation to consider knowledge and its dissemination, and how we might look at the present to see into the future. We also speak with groundbreaking artist Linder about her new show at the Hayward Gallery. Bought up in working-class Liverpool, she came of age during punk and applied its anarchic creativity to a lifetime of questioning images and social stereotypes. Sakir Khader makes powerful yet undeniably controversial images of Palestinian resistance fighters. Following the release of his latest book, Dying to Exist, he speaks to Online Editor Dalia Al-Dujaili about the camera as a weapon, fighting censorship by authorities and social media shadowbanning. Thaddé Comar’s work graces this issue’s cover, with a feature on questioning the power of images and resisting surveillance, in which he cites “the war of images between police forces, demonstrators, and the media”. Elsewhere, Hélène Amouzou presents a series of self-portraits that refuse both erasure and the documentation of bureaucracy, and we catch up with the curator of an exhibition about iconic style magazine The Face at the National Portrait Gallery. This issue features a special and major section on Polish and Hungarian image-making, in collaboration with the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in Budapest and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, marking the exhibition European Kinship – Eastern European Perspective which is taking place at the Capa Center, in collaboration with Adam Mickiewicz Institute, until 30 March. All this and much more, including new books and exciting projects, in the Resist issue of British Journal of Photography.