SOURCE

Archived since Summer 1992
121 issues
Complete Archive Quarterly
SOURCE is the essential magazine for intelligent and independent discussion of contemporary photography. Each issue brings you the latest news, portfolios by emerging and established photographers, well researched feature articles, reviews of the most important exhibitions and books, and specialist columns offering deep analysis on various photography related subjects.

Published since 1992, Source is a quality quarterly magazine that provides readers with a critical discussion of photographic practice and an appreciation of the importance of photography in the wider culture. Your subscription will include access to over a dozen back issues of the magazine.

Photographers recently featured in Source include: Victor Burgin, Hannah Collins, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Sarah Dobai, Richard Gilligan, Emma Hart, Anthony Haughey, John Hilliard, Karen Knorr, Sirkka-Liisa Knottinen, Hew Locke, Mari Mahr, Trish Morrissey, Suzanne Mooney, Wendy McMurdo, Mark Neville, Roger Palmer, Steven Pippin, Paul Seawright, Simon Starling, John Stezaker, Jane and Louise Wilson and Donovan Wylie.

Our regular contributors include leading writers on contemporary photography such as David Campany, David Bate, David Brittain, Pavel Buchler, Stephen Bull, Justin Carville, Mark Durden, David Evans, Colin Graham, Alison Green, Roger Hargreaves, Rebecca Hopkinson, Daniel Jewesbury, Martha Langford, Anthony Luvera, Mary Warner Marien, Alicia Miller, Matt Packer, Eugenie Shinkle, Lucy Soutter, Ian Walker, Edward Welch and Judith Williamson.

Latest issue
Malaise: Emma Aars takes a guided tour of Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan mansion courtesy of the photographs released by the US government as part of the Epstein Files.

PORTFOLIOS: Thomas Haywood’s Weeping Rocks shows a contemporary Denmark where in discrete ways discontent hides behind the ordered appearance of things. Julia Tanner introduces the work noting ‘the images draw on cinematic iconographies of disaster as well as photographic traditions exploring sociopolitical realities from Walker Evans to Robert Frank.’
Christopher Stewart’s work The Colony was initially two bodies of work, one showing a colony of bats and the other, regular military exercises designed to counter China’s influence. After working on the two parallel series for some years he began to understand their inter-relationship. ‘The protection of borders; the annexation of territory; the forced displacement of populations: these themes began to emerge as the images were considered side by side’.
Mark Walsh’s work Towards an Empty Sea started with a visit to an old derelict house by a river. ‘It was if the river was growing up through the house, absorbing all that human experience into itself’. Walsh is interested in the idea of following a river to the sea as an exercise in escape and enlightenment in contemporary culture.

REVIEWS: Exhibitions of the work of Boris Mikhailov, Rodney Graham and Samuel Laurence Cunnane. Book reviews: Joan Fontcuberta Against Barthes, Yan Wang Preston, The Erasure of Palestine and Sally Mann's Art Work and much more 

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  • First Issue: Summer 1992
  • Latest Issue: Spring 2026
  • Issue Count: 121
  • Published: Quarterly
  • ISSN: 2059-6790