🇻🇪 born photographer @silvanatrevale photographed by moi @photolondonfair with her new 📘 Venezuelan Youth, published by @guesteditions (Booth J03 - Discovery).
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MAWMAW ( @bigtonewhippinwork
) is an intimate, long term exploration of West Virginia's grand families - households where children are being raised by their grandparents. Spanning all four seasons, the work moves beyond the usual narratives around the opioid crisis to examine the many reasons grandparents step into a caregiving role: incarceration, death, unpreparedness or neglect.
Through photographs made between 2021 and 2026, the book weaves together everyday life, from birthdays and play to exhaustion and resilience, to show both the triumph and the struggles of these families. At the heart of it all the grandparents themselves, who keep the children fed, happy, and most most importantly, deeply loved.
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Photo London 2026 returned from 14 to 17 May at Olympia in Kensington. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Photo London, the fair is bigger than ever this year, presenting a more expanded and highly curated selection of works compared to last year. There are five highlight sections: Public Programme, Sources, Discovery, Positions, Main Section, and Focus. ‘Sources’, curated by photography expert Tristan Lund, and ‘Focus’, featuring galleries from Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe, have been introduced this year.
Among a wide range of artworks, notable highlights include works by Master of Photography Steven Meisel, culturally significant artists such as Ute and Werner Mahler, and emerging and independent artists such as @agonyecstasygallery and @maurizioanzeri .
A2Z will also be on-site, capturing exclusive behind-the-scenes atmosphere content, so stay tuned for more. Swipe right to preview the exhibition before you go.
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Mawmaw by Anthony Wilson
Arriving soon! Available to order online now.
Mawmaw is an intimate, long-term exploration of West Virginia’s grandfamilies – households where children are being raised by their grandparents. Spanning all four seasons, the work moves beyond the usual narratives around the opioid crisis to examine the many reasons grandparents step into a caregiving role: incarceration, death, unpreparedness, or neglect.
Through photographs made between 2021 and 2026, the book weaves together everyday life — from birthdays and play to exhaustion and resilience — to show both the triumphs and the struggles of these families. At the heart of it all are the grandmothers themselves, who keep these children fed, happy, and most importantly, deeply loved.
@thomas.duffield@ft_weekend Poppy Promises will be showing with @guesteditions at @photolondonfair as part of Discoveries curated by @omfgnoway 🩷 “I didn’t think it would be easy, but nothing could have prepared me for how long and winding the project would become. I would cycle over to his house burdened with equipment, only for the camera to remain packed in its bag. It was four years before I worked up the courage to ask him to sit for a portrait.“
“The Grandmothers Who Become Mothers Again.” Photographs by Anthony Wilson (@bigtonewhippinwork ). Our @newyorkermag Photo Booth this #MothersDay weekend showcases Anthony’s new book, “Mawmaw,” with an accompanying essay by the great @caseycep . This book “pays tribute to West Virginia women who, after one tragedy or another, care for their children’s children.” Casey’s writing is a beautiful companion piece to Anthony’s very moving photographs, but this last paragraph is just beyond: “The women here seem to have made whatever peace they can with all that they cannot explain to their grandchildren, a hardscrabble happiness detailed in their written testimony and evidenced throughout these gorgeous pictures. And who can say for sure whether twilight is the arrival of some dark night or the coming of the dawn, or whether a scrawny boy’s shoulder blades might really be the nubs of angel wings, or where, if anywhere, any of us will find new life.” Thank you Anthony, @pomegranate_press , @guesteditions , and Casey. Link in bio.
Mawmaw by Anthony Wilson (2021–2026)
These photos are additional selections from a series we featured in February earlier this year.
In this documentary project, Wilson explores various “grandfamilies” throughout West Virginia, which are households in which grandparents have assumed primary caregiving responsibility for their grandchildren in the wake of parental neglect, incarceration, or death. These households are situated within a landscape that is partially affected by the ongoing opioid crisis that is prominent in the region, without characterizing an explicit correlation to the broader issues around epidemic as the result of these arrangements.
The photographs here continue the series’ focus on domestic rhythm, as well as the emotional and physical labor that sustains these homes. The work frames these environments not through the conditions that formed them, but through the life lived within them. The series is now in print as a full photobook with Pomegranate Press (@pomegranate_press ) and co-published with Guest Editions (@guesteditions ) and is now available for purchase on their respective sites.
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I contemplated my first poem in the moonlight, at the end of summer and the beginning of a friendship with Paulina that had come from afar. Forced to leave the clouds of Caracas, yet never the nostalgia that crosses the Caribbean Sea and the oceans of time, with the desire to rediscover land, culture, flavours and loved ones. Often, a balm for the pain claimed by joy. Rendered a vital form of resistance by Silvana Trevale’s ‘Venezuelan Youth’, photographing for years the young people forced to move from a state of playful naivety to the stoicism of harsh reality, during her travels outside Caracas and amidst the deep crisis in Venezuela, she left at the age of 17, along with most of her high school classmates.
Paulina has returned to Venezuela. The photographer uses visual metaphors for states of mind that are difficult to put into words, as a form of resistance to her nostalgia for her country and her frustration at the crisis afflicting it. A vibrant ode to vitality taking root amidst adversity, infused throughout the 192 pages of this self-published volume, released by the independent publisher Guest Editions. It will be launched on 7 May, alongside the photography exhibition, at the dynamic Guest Project Space in London’s creative Lower Clapton.
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📷 #repost @silvanatrevale Venezuelan Youth, photobook & exposiion, @guesteditions independent publishing house & @guestroomprojectspace London (7–30 May 2026)
Adding salvaged wood battens to the back of the frames. These battens are cut from larger beams of old but high quality timber collected over the years on the farm by my mum’s partner.
This adds rigidity to the frames and makes the float mount possible. As I worked away on these, the brilliant @freshaire_ltd produced a number of archival pigment prints from the series Poppy Promises.
For a sharp finish, Alec at Fresh Aire mounted each of the prints to Alu DiBond. The next step involves joining Aluminium mounted prints to the solid oak frames…
More insights coming soon…
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Photo London
14th - 17th May
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Discovery, J01 📍
