Lola Alvarez Bravo, an oft-overlooked female artist, created profoundly personal works, which combined a radical humanism with experiments with the uncanny.
Lola Álvarez Bravo: Picturing Mexico
Syria, I Went Back
“And now, one year later, I would walk into an arrivals hall at Damascus airport filled with Syrian families crying and hugging separated sons, now-married daughters, and children that have never seen their homeland. So many tears.”
February Issue, 2026
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
John Heartfield, photomontage as a political weapon
“He inscribed the slogan ‘use photography as a weapon,’ which underlines his faith in the impact of this new medium and its ability to denounce the perversities of the modern world: fascism, war and its atrocities, Nazism or capitalism.”
January Issue, 2026
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
The Emotional Shades of Ifeoluwapo’s Self-Portraits
“Ifeoluwapo applies this method because her work goes to the heart of what it means to be a woman in a world in which a woman has to conform to different roles within and outside the confines of what she calls home.”
Seeing
“It delved into photographs’ potential as a way to arrive at a photographic vision and a photographic philosophy of seeing.”
December Issue, 2025
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
On the Verge of Surprise: The Wildly Strange Photography of Ralph Eugene Meatyard
The remarkable photography of Ralph Eugene Meatyard.
Stalin’s Toilet
“That brief meeting aroused my curiosity to such an extent that now, a year later, I find myself staring into the porcelain bowl of Stalin’s toilet.” – John Wreford
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