Artists, clowns, runaways: a stay at the Chelsea Hotel – in pictures
Patti Smith lived there in ‘creative chaos’, while others paid their bills with paintings. Fellow guest Albert Scopin unpacked his camera to capture the iconic New York hotel and its clientele
‘These flowers have witnessed horrific things’: Steve McQueen’s bountiful Grenada – in pictures
The artist and film-maker spent a summer on the island making poetic images of the local flora – and exploring their connections to Grenada’s historical trauma
Space: the ultimate wardrobe challenge – in pictures
As the Artemis II astronauts return from the moon, we celebrate the science, suits and spirit of endeavour that took them there, all brought together in a colourful new book called Space Journal
He shoots, he scores! Basketball as you’ve never seen it before – in pictures
In 2019, Austin Bell embarked on a wild quest to photograph all 2,549 of Hong Kong’s outdoor basketball courts using drone cameras and Google Maps. The results offer a fresh perspective on the city
Tourist photography subverted: Luigi Ghirri was a master of composition
An exhibition of rare photographs by the Italian photographer highlights the abstraction and poetry of his lesser-known works. Captions by Tosia Leniarska
‘Beauty in the everyday’: A butterfly’s-eye view of the world – in pictures
US photographer Jeff Mermelstein has been likened to the winged insect due to his passion for flitting from one attractive subject to the next, as shown in his new book of work
Smoking guns and swamp creatures: America’s fringes – in pictures
Guided by instinct, Curran Hatleberg travels the US looking for images that tell their own short stories – from a boat full of dead alligators to teenagers diving 40ft off a bridge
‘A country pulled in opposite directions’: destruction and hope in Ukraine – in pictures
Photographer Robin Hinsch insists that Lonely Are All the Bridges is not a war book – it’s a portrait of a society being torn apart and the human threads trying to hold it together
The distance between us: are these people together or apart? – in pictures
Intriguing images abound in Yolanda del Amo’s new book Archipelago, which explores how our longing for closeness coexists with a desire for individuality
‘They’d rarely seen television’: childhood magic in rural Colombia – in pictures
Wendy Ewald’s novel Magic Eyes is interspersed with photographs of the children she taught in a village outside Bogotá – and the stunning pictures she taught them to take
‘She thought it was too sexy!’: portraits of Kate Moss, Grace Jones and a tea-drinking chimp – in pictures
From a gold-covered Dennis Rodman to Jack Nicholson sitting in the snow, Albert Watson has spent a career shooting the stars – as well as the occasional giant coffee spoon
Abandoned houses! Cows stuck in trees! The place full of secrets – in pictures
Pia Paulina Guilmoth and Jesse Bull Saffire spent seven years sniffing around discarded boxes and junk shops in order to paint this peculiar portrait of their home
‘Of course I’m scared’: people confront their final days – in pictures
Sibylle Fendt’s intimate photographs of terminally ill patients and their carers were inspired by the death of her own husband – a period in which she experienced pain, tenderness and love
