Term: Visual Arts
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Echoes of Silence
Echoes of Silence is a visual exploration composed of nine photographs and one video that examines stillness, memory, and emotional presence through a restrained and...
Reflect
A pool and a reflection. Held down below the gentle, rippling surface. Hidden between the stabbing and persistent pulse of falling rain. Waiting to resurface.
Behind Veiled Eyes
For years, I admired and attempted to emulate deliberate street photographers. I walked circuits on the same blocks of New York, Paris, and Tokyo, waiting...
Tracey Emin: A Second Life
Bringing together over a hundred works, this exhibition celebrates Emin’s 40 years practice, you walk through Emin’s journalised, confessional life. Her very distinctive mark making...
Samurai
The word samurai comes from the Japanese verb ‘to serve’. This exhibition, bringing together 280 exhibits, traces the evolution of the samurai image and myths....
Lucien Freud: Drawing into Painting
After Freud’s death in 2011, the National Portrait Gallery was in receipt of his ‘works on paper’ in lieu of government taxes. One hundred and...
David Hockney: A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting
The key piece in this show is the vast ninety metre digital frieze documenting the Normandie seasons of Hockney’s own garden. A series of iPad...
Telling Tomorrow's Stories
Derived from the Bemba word meaning “a collective of storytellers” or “these stories will be told in the future,” Bakashimika International Photography Festival is more...
Ottuk
In the Tien Shan mountains, the temperatures can swiftly drop to –35° Celsius. If the sheep are out overnight, they will all die. An entire...
AI CAN
In this interview, Panorama’s Director, Matthew Webb, speaks with noted illustrator Allen Shaw about AI and his new collaborative Short Film AI CAN.
John Singer Sargent in Paris: The Limits of Liminality
The transformative exhibition John Singer Sargent in Paris at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (27 April-3 August 2025) demonstrates Sargent’s dramatic...
The Genesis Exhibition by Do Ho Suh
The Genesis Exhibition: Do Ho Suh: Walk The House, Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG 1 May 2025 – 19 October 2025, ‘Walk The House’,...
Edward Burra and Ithell Colquhoun
Edward Burra (1905-1976) and Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988), 13 June – 19 October 2025, Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG. Two for the price of one,...
Issue 15: Paris
Paris has long been the site of opulence, resistance, rebellion, and style. It has inspired great writing and writers, philosophy and philosophers. In this collection,...
Paris: City of Monuments
We retraced old haunts, ate ice cream, dined on the Eiffel Tower, joined the crowds at Montmartre. It was the first time we had paid...
Electric Dreams Art and Technology Before the Internet
Electric Dreams is a large and complex show looking at the work of more than seventy artists who were at the beginning of the computer...
Leigh Bowery!
Leigh Bowery arrived in the UK from Australia in 1980. He grew up in a conservative family in Sunshine, a suburb of Melbourne. He was...
Linder Danger Came Smiling
A retrospective exhibition of Linder Sterling, who has been provocatively pushing boundaries since the late 1970s in the Manchester punk scene, with her collage, performance,...
Mickalene Thomas: All About Love
Mickalene Thomas is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist. All About Love includes paintings, collage, photographs, installations and films. Her mixed media portraits are vivid and glamorous...
Noah Davis
This exhibition is beautifully curated, chronologically arranged, each piece has room to breathe, a very illuminating and contemplative experience. Davis painted something like 400 works...
Issue 14: Survival
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 14th edition, on the theme of ‘survival.’ Many thanks to all contributors and the editors...
Infinite scroll
Scroll through all work published by Panorama in one long infinitely scrolling page.
In Conversation with Arturo Rodríguez
Being in front of a volcanic eruption, from the perspective of someone who hasn’t been there, might seem like standing on an alien planet. But,...
Tavares Strachan: There is a Light Somewhere
Tavares Strachan’s There is a Light Somewhere show at the Hayward finished at the end of September. It was a stunning show exhibiting the Bahamian’s...
Silk Roads: British Museum
This magnificent exhibition celebrates and expands the concept of the ‘Silk Road’. The derivation of the Silk Road began in the 18th century reflecting on...
Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit
This exhaustive survey of Mike Kelley (1954-2021) is frightening, intriguing, loud, funny and very American. It’s packed with his sculptures, videos, models, photographs, and multi-disciplinary...
Hew Locke: what have we here?
‘This is like walking round my head, there is no direct route, choose your own route’, says Hew Locke after two years of collaboration, delving...
Issue 13: Fire
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 13th edition, on the theme of ‘fire.’ Fire: /ˈfʌɪə/ origin: Old English fȳr (noun), fȳrian...
Edinburgh
Edinburgh feels like a moody melancholic gentleman filled with more talent than he can use. And when the sun shines, you feel like the only...
My Shadows and I
My sculptural and digital images are a reflection of my past and present, projecting my life stories across a range of urbanscapes. I call them...
Nights in the Suburb
Two years ago I moved to a new community in a very remote suburb, which blends in with the surrounding rural areas forming a unique...
Yinka Shonibare CBE
British Nigerian Yinka Shonibare returns after two decades to the Serpentine Gallery with a compact greatest hits exhibition plus bonus tracks. A constant is his...
Judy Chicago
This retrospective is titled Revelations after the unpublished manuscript Judy Chicago wrote and illustrated while making the Dinner Party. The manuscript has been updated with...
Issue 12: Cities
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 12th edition. In this issue, we present work on the theme of ‘cities,’ whether in...
In Conversation with Mike Challis
My family moved from small town environment in Essex to a Suffolk village when I was 7 and I spent much of my time after...
Greenwood
A handsome, fresh-faced young man in the uniform of a British Tommy stands framed within the front doorway of a beautiful, upper-middle-class country house. He...
Juma
In the last days of December 2006, news that gold had been found in the Juma basin quickly spread throughout the Amazon, attracting men and...
Backlight
Visual artist and photographic reporter, Guilherme Bergamini is Brazilian and graduated in Journalism. For more than two decades, he has developed projects with photography and...
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art brings together over one hundred artworks by fifty international practitioners, covering the period from the 1960s...
Legion: Life in the Roman Army
The exquisite head of Augustus, Rome’s first Emperor, welcomes you to Legion. It is a wonderful, comprehensive exhibition, which tells the story of the men,...
When Forms Come Alive
When Forms Come Alive, curated by gallery director, Ralph Rugoff, spans over sixty years of contemporary art, featuring twenty-one international artists. Direct representation is mostly...
North Carolina Critters up Close
At the foundation of my work is a respect for nature and the playground it affords us. This respect was instilled at a young age....
Infinite Healing of Nature
The “Infinite Healing of Nature” series is inspired by spending time in nature to rest and rejuvenate from the world’s stresses. After experiencing multiple anxiety...
Issue 11: Ecology
Welcome to Panorama’s 11th edition. In this issue we turn our attention to ecology—from the word’s earliest roots to present-day ecologies which span people, organisms,...
Solace
Throughout my practice, I explore relationships, loneliness, longing, intimacy and the human urge for physical proximity. Intimacy between people (in friendship, family relationships as well...
Contemporary Film Directors: Kore-eda Hirokazu
This book provides an intervention in the English-language criticism on one of the most acclaimed international auteurs working today, Kore-eda Hirokazu (b. 1962). During his...
The Automata Chronicles: The Age of Ghostwriters
MacDonaldStrand’s latest project – a self-published photobook ‘The Automata Chronicles: The Age of Ghostwriters’ – is a contemporary AI-generated fable telling the rise of artificially...
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine
Leaving the polychromatic Southbank and entering through the doors of the Hayward Gallery I was gently propelled into Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Time Machine. This retrospective exhibition...
Morocco: An Expression of Enchantment
While delving into my archives recently for a series of photomontages entitled A Sense of Place, I discovered a great many pictures I’d taken in...
My Brother's War
My Brother’s War tells the story of a soldier, Gary Hines, and his younger sister’s search to understand the circumstances surrounding his life with Post...
Issue 10: Intimacy
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 10th edition. This issue focuses on INTIMACY in all its forms from a closeness and...
Maps of the Mind
My studio in Osaka is in an area which has been undergoing rapid transformation. Invitations to local events or exhibitions often take the form of postcards...
Artworks
Artworks available on Panorama include paintings by Steve Russell and many other fabulous artists.
Painting on Printed Matter
Russell has long painted on printed matter. Here follows a selection of works—made between 2002 and 2023—that use postcards, maps, and various flight and travel...
Design for Migration
Design for Migration is a platform that highlights design projects that deal with migrant issues. Here we speak with the organiser — Matteo Moretti.
Things that went with the water
In these images I focus on climate change, displacement, identity, women, and culture through a series of portraits made with a shallow depth of field...
Creating space for histories
Amsterdam’s Museum Van Loon, a mansion built in 1672 and previously inhabited by descendants of one of the Dutch East India Tea Company founders, was...
Mr Tashi
In June 2015, Thida Nathalie visited Ladakh, ’The Land of High Passes,’ in northern India. The first interview with Mr Tashi was accidental, spurred by...
Tribe
Longwa sits on the ridge of an east Indian hill bordering Myanmar. The path is trailed with potholes and unreliable rides. Without strong conviction, constitution...
Issue 9: Borders
In this issue we have work from India, Nigeria, Philippines, Israel, Netherlands, UK, USA, Brazil, South Korea, Thailand, Germany, Italy, and more. In many ways...
Dark Matter
Dark Matter by Granville Carroll is an artist’s book about darkness and light, the infinity of the cosmos and the divine, big bangs and subtle...
Postcards Home
My mother and I live in a state of space — both physically, and emotionally. This is a travel series dedicated to her.
Foreign Puzzle
Foreign Puzzle is an intimate documentary that explores interior space and its external manifestation through movement [in space] to communicate that which cannot be expressed...
Ocean Rage
Since the start of my career in 2000, I’ve worked and travelled all over the world. In Europe, the Middle East, South and Central Asia,...
NASA STS-72 Mission
America’s fleet of space shuttle orbiters were in service for 30 years, but after 135 missions the era of the NASA space shuttle has now...
Memory Scrubbing
As Russia continues to lay siege to the offices, archives, and staff of human rights organisation Memorial, we share this documentary that explores the origins...
I’m Not Invisible
Those of us who can afford our own personal space find ourselves in a relatively privileged position. We enjoy the privilege of being able to...
Extinction Beckons
Mike Nelson, is an internationally acclaimed British artist, born 1967 in Loughborough, he works in London. Extinction Beckons is a major exhibition, which includes sculptural...
Where Have you Been?
I had to get out – to get some air. I’ve been lost inside something, inside something strange, inside myself, in the small rooms that...
Issue 8: Space
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s SPACE issue. From the very small to the enormity of our imaginations, essays grow from...
select important things
For select important things (2022), I have created my own knowledge system to navigate the shifting landscape of meaning and meaning-making in the 21st century....
The Train Rolls On
Whenever the freight trains comes through Grady, Arkansas, where my maternal family originates, the windows, tables and kitchen tops shake as the locomotive makes it...
Fire in the Mind
Imagine, for a moment, a Cézanne who, rather than attempting to picture the structure of Mont Saint-Victoire and of every part of the natural world...
Rise
The shutters rise on a high-end fashion store, the ground in front is liquid, gently rippling as it obscures the entrance. Cutting to a second...
The Information Front
The Information Front is a new publication that highlights the work of Ukrainian photographers currently active covering the war. Here we speak with one of...
Issue 7: Dawn
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s DAWN issue. This bright, awakening, and challenging composition comprises a multitude of world views, places,...
Photo Essay: The War is Still Alive
Three decades have passed since the end of the Iran-Iraq war, but many mothers are still waiting for the return of the remains of lost...
Photo Essay: Brave Hearts
As a Yemeni woman, I’m fascinated by the beautiful spirit of my fellow countrywomen. For eleven years I have travelled throughout Yemen and photographed Yemeni...
Yan Wang Preston: Interview and Images
The Yangtze River begins in Tibet and runs the length of China, dissecting the nation into North and South. At 6380 km long, it is...
Issue 6: War & Peace
Welcome to Panorama’s WAR & PEACE issue. This collection, months in the making, deeply explores the themes of war and peace, with a special emphasis...
Going the Way of the Qivittoq
I sat alone in a cosy cabin perched atop a small hill on the banks of Nuuk fjord. Locals called it Ghost City because the...
In Conversation with Max Sher
I first met Max Sher at the Calvert 22 Gallery in London. He had been invited to share images from his long-term ongoing photography project,...
Issue 5: Lost
Welcome to Panorama‘s long-awaited LOST, our fifth issue, which we are dedicating to the great traveller, Anthony Bourdain, whose recent passing has affected us all....
On Filmmaking and Travel
I don’t remember when I developed the urge to travel. Did it start when I took my first film job in 2008, which saw me...
Issue 4: Seen
Perhaps more than any other time in recent history, how we see places and one another will determine what happens next to our human family....
The Meek Family Ed-venture
Tim and Kerry Meek were both full-time teachers in Nottingham, England but felt that their jobs were too life-consuming and they needed to redress their...
Issue 3: Open
We present our panoramic vision of travel literature in our Spring ‘Open’ issue. A carefully curated collection of travel poetry, fiction, and memoir, the selections...
The Colour of Guanabara Bay
The starting point of my photo series was the image of Rio de Janeiro and one of its most iconic vistas: Guanabara Bay and Sugar...
Issue 2: Treasures
Welcome to Panorama’s second issue. Panorama exists not only to publish extraordinary, diverse travel literature and imagery, but to widen the definition of what travel...
Trekking in the Pamir and Zarafshan Mountains
They say that to be from Tajikistan is to know Tajikistan. But while I thought I knew my country well, it was not until I...
Weekend Reading
Read all articles, essays, poems, and stories published on Panorama on the weekends in between issues.
I am a place
Careful observation can bridge the gap between seeing something virtually and witnessing the same thing in person. Although I’m no different to any other inquisitive...
Issue 1: Firsts
Welcome to Panorama‘s first issue. Our purpose is to shift the perspective of travel literature and imagery towards a more panoramic, modern worldview, and we...
Slideshow: Intimacy
I first noticed this whenever I talk to someone who is taller than me or is physically standing or sitting in a position where they...
Pearl of Iran
When I was 10, my father was hospitalised due to kidney disease in a hospital in Urmia. At home, in Tabriz city, my mother, my...