Charlotte Cotton

Ezra Petronio: Visual Thinking and Image Making (Phaidon 2023)

Interview with Juergen Teller, Muse magazine, September 2023

555: Revisiting The Fashion Archive of Francisco Costa (Rizzoli 2023)

Self Service #55 Cover Story, On Kate by Charlotte Cotton

Self Service #55 Cover Story, On Kate by Charlotte Cotton

Imperfect Beauty: The Making of Contemporary Fashion Photographs (2000)

‘SEE KNOW EVIL: Photography and journals by Davide Sorrenti’, Let’s Panic magazine, Fall 2016

‘SEE KNOW EVIL: Photography and journals by Davide Sorrenti’, Let’s Panic magazine, Fall 2016

‘SEE KNOW EVIL: Photography and journals by Davide Sorrenti’, Let’s Panic magazine, Fall 2016

‘SEE KNOW EVIL: Photography and journals by Davide Sorrenti’, Let’s Panic magazine, Fall 2016

Fashion Image Revolution (2018)

Nick Knight, Fashion Image Revolution (2018)

Nick Knight, Fashion Image Revolution (2018)

Nick Knight, Fashion Image Revolution (2018)

Sølve Sundsbø, Fashion Image Revolution (2018)

Glen Luchford, Fashion Image Revolution (2018)

Brigitte Niedermair: Me and Fashion (2019)

Brigitte Niedermair: Me and Fashion installation, Palazzo Mocenigo, Venice Biennale, 2019

Brigitte Niedermair: Me and Fashion installation, Palazzo Mocenigo, Venice Biennale, 2019

Brigitte Niedermair: Me and Fashion installation, Palazzo Mocenigo, Venice Biennale, 2019

Louis Vuitton Fashion Photography (2014)

Nick Knight (2009)

Guy Bourdin (2003)

Public, Private, Secret installation, International Center of Photography, NY, 2016-17

Public, Private, Secret is an exhibition and book that considers the ways in which our shared visual culture is implicated in the boundaries between and boundarylessness of our public, private, (and sometimes secret) versions of self. The exhibition considered the militating factors such as state surveillance, corporate data mining, celebrity culture, and pornography that shape contemporary image culture, the historical precedents for our present day condition and artists’ resistances and counterarguments. Shown at the International Center of Photography, NY in 2016-17, this exhibition was curated with Pauline Vermare and Marina Chao, designed with Common Field and Geoff Han.

Public, Private, Secret: On Photography and the Configuration of Self (2018)

Public, Private, Secret: On Photography and the Configuration of Self (2018)

Public, Private, Secret: On Photography and the Configuration of Self (2018)

Public, Private, Secret installation (Martine Syms), International Center of Photography, NY, 2016-17

Public, Private, Secret: On Photography and the Configuration of Self (2018)

Public, Private, Secret installation (Lyle Ashton Harris), International Center of Photography, NY, 2016-17

Public, Private, Secret installation (Rashid Johnson and Vik Muniz), International Center of Photography, NY, 2016-17

THE PHOTOGRAPH AS CONTEMPORARY ART, now in its 4th edition, was first published in 2004 and is a key textbook for art schools and universities across the globe. Published in over 14 languages, the book charts the broad range of contemporary art photography of the 21st century.

THE PHOTOGRAPH AS CONTEMPORARY ART, now in its 4th edition, was first published in 2004 and is a key textbook for art schools and universities across the globe. Published in over 14 languages, the book charts the broad range of contemporary art photography of the 21st century.

The Photograph As Contemporary Art (4th edition, 2020)

The Photograph As Contemporary Art (4th edition, 2020)

The Photograph As Contemporary Art (4th edition, 2020)

The Photograph As Contemporary Art (4th edition, 2020)

Viviane Sassen: In And Out Of Fashion (2012)

Photography Is Magic (2015)

Asha Schechter, Photography Is Magic (2015)

Stefan Burger, Photography Is Magic (2015)

Taisuke Koyama, Photography Is Magic (2015)

Photography Is Magic! installation (Carter Mull), Daegu Photo Biennale 2012, S Korea

Words Without Pictures (2010)

The 2023 Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar (15 March - 20 May) is the second biennial programme of exhibitions, awards, commissions, collaborations, presentations and workshops that amplify diverse practices and dialogues of photographers and photographic communities in Qatar and the Western Asia and North Africa (WANA) region.

Doha Fashion Fridays is a unique collaborative project, initiated in 2017 by artists Khalid Albaih and Aparna Jayakumar, in which migrant workers living in Qatar are photographed and interviewed on Fridays, their day of rest. Using fashion as a lens and Instagram as its public platform, the project’s hundreds of images and interviews tell narratives about the diverse migrant population, who have come to Qatar with dreams and aspirations.

A Chance To Breathe presents the remarkable photographs of Omal Khair, Dil Kayas and Azimul Hasson, who have been documenting their lives and those in their Rohingya refugee community living in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh since 2018.

This exhibition was conceived to be a 3-person photography exhibition hosted by a major cultural venue in Doha, Qatar – a direct call to viewers to recognize Omal Khair, Dil Kayas and Azimul Hasson true chroniclers of the lived experiences of Rohingya people within this traumatic and violent period of Rohingya and Mayanmar’s history.

Hadeer Omar’s installation And Thereafter at the historic Al Koot Fort draws upon Souq Waqif as source of inspiration, weaving together traditional and contemporary aspects of daily life, translating and transforming them into surreal immersive environments.

Hadeer Omar: And Thereafter The video projections and soundscapes play in an asynchronous loop creating a constantly-renewing, generative experience that evolves over time, celebrating contemporary Qatari heritage, wrapped in Omar’s immersive media dreamscape.

I Am The Traveler And Also The Road is a journey that interconnects the visions of eleven remarkable photographers working in the WANA region today. It honors the photographic practices of Fatema bint Ahmad Al-Doh, Hayat Al-Sharif, Shaima Al-Tamimi, Samar Sayed Baiomy, Salih Basheer, Mohammed Elshamy, Reem Falaknaz, Rula Halawani, Mona Hassan, Fethi Sahraoui, and Abdo Shanan.

I Am The Traveler And Also The Road. In 2021 and 2022, each of the photographers was a recipient of Tasweer’s annual grant award, created to enable the development or completion of photographic projects by photographers living in the WANA region.

I Am The Traveler And Also The Road. Through its awards and this exhibition, Tasweer manifests its core aim of participating meaningfully in the forward momentum of exceptional photographers who are creating articulate stories from the region.

Close Enough: New Perspectives From 12 Women Photographers From Magnum was initiated and staged at the International Center For Photography, New York, September 2022 – January 2023. The exhibition explores the practices of twelve emerging and established women photographers and the relationality they create within global situations, local communities and with individual subjects. This exhibition was made in collaboration with Sara Ickow, Dillon Goldschlag and an installation team at ICP; graphic designer Sarah Gephart; and collaborations with the participating artists.

Sabiha Çimen, “I was struck by the girls who didn’t seem to care about how they looked in comparison to the so-called beauty standards set by social media. It says something about their agency and the resolute rebelliousness of their generation, which I wanted to be resoundingly clear to the viewer of Hâfız. The media has a very cartoonish way of portraying Muslim women, and as insiders—as Muslim women and girls—I hope we can change perception through true observations of our lives.”

Close Enough: Newsha Tavakolian “For the Sake of Calmness is perhaps my most personal project to date. One Winter morning in 2016, I was sitting in my home and enduring Premenstrual Syndrome while I faced towards Mount Damavand, the highest volcanic peak in Iran. I had this realization that in front of me was a glorious albeit inactive volcano that held this unending possibility that it might erupt at any moment. I was starting to work out how to visualize the deep bodily intensity of PMS in an abstracted way. The film is about the state of PMS but it is equally an analogy of the state of a country.”

Carolyn Drake “I think my work with the women members of ‘Knit Club’ is a defining moment in my shift towards collaboration and in my journey to address problems of representation. Like many artists, I struggle with and challenge the power balance between the author and the subject.”

Close Enough: Myriam Boulos“I am realizing more and more that photography is the answer to my failures. Before anything else, photography responds to my need to get closer to people, to understand what is real, and to be present. The act of taking photographs triggers intense moments of reality for me, and a way of literally putting a light onto what is oppressed and normalized. Photography can be an abuse of power, but we also need it to be an essential tool for telling our personal, collective, and local stories.”

Lua Ribeira “My work almost always start with something that I am really close to. I listen to Trap and Drill music, observing how these cultural movements articulate the precarity of living through crisis-after-crisis combined with the euphoria of making everything in your own way and sharing it directly and without any censorship from intermediary platforms or global corporations. The “DNA” of this frenetic and raw expression of hedonism versus nihilism, the darkness versus joy, the glorification of wealth and banalization of violence is resonating globally for a reason.”