Source Magazine

source Each year as part of Graduate Photography Online we ask a number of professionals from the world of photography to review all the work submitted and choose their favourites. We chat to Peggy Sue Amison, Artistic Director, East Wing and Selector for the BA phase of Graduate Photography Online 2026.

A click, a whirr and magically an image begins to appear. Not all at once, but gradually, as if the world is revealing itself again. In my visual art practice, Polaroids aren’t nostalgic; they’re a way of paying attention—a way of walking with the city and sometimes, against it. For my relationship to the city is shaped by a gendered experience of space, moving through it with alertness, caution, and a persistent sense of being both visible and out of place.

Issue 120 — Winter  2025 View Contents ▸ If people are discontented and anxious then one solution that can be offered to them is to blame someone else for their problems. Asylum seekers – people at the bottom of the ladder of misfortune – are a readily available group for this blame, often under the catch-all term of ‘immigrants’. And so it is that immigrants become an object of hostility both in media representations and government policy.

My first memories of Iraq were built through the stories that accompanied our family archive. There were ones that my family told me and ones that I told myself. More than personal photos, I also saw them as historical documents that showed lives that were too often forgotten about in the news about Iraq. You can imagine what some of them look like. Multi generational families laughing together, birthdays and so on.

source Each year as part of Graduate Photography Online we ask a number of professionals from the world of photography to review all the MA/MFA work submitted and choose their favourites. We hope this makes an interesting introduction to the project as a whole. Jermaine Francis Photographer, Writer & Curator jermainefrancis.studio The selection process was not easy, but it was interesting to see the issues, topics and age ranges of the graduates.

Issue 119 — Autumn  2025 View Contents ▸ Israa Alrrayah and her family escaped from the war in Sudan. She has subsequently become a photographer and writes about the meaning of family photographs for people who have lost them. These photographs represent a continuity for people whose lives have been disrupted. The pictures are a physical connection with an inaccessible present (home in Sudan) and past (cultural heritage).

source Each year as part of Graduate Photography Online we ask a number of professionals from the world of photography to review all the MA/MFA work submitted and choose their favourites. We hope this makes an interesting introduction to the project as a whole.

Issue 118 — Spring  2025 View Contents ▸ "The charm of the simple solution is very understandable" says Jennifer Evans in our feature interview. Increasingly, those beguiling explanations for life’s difficulties are being offered by authoritarian politicians and part of the way they are selling them are through photographs. Jennifer Evans and Jonathan Long are scholars of Fascism in the 1930s and we have asked them to compare that period with today.

source Each year as part of Graduate Photography Online we ask a number of professionals from the world of photography to review all the BA work submitted and choose their favourites. We hope this makes an interesting introduction to the project as a whole. Raquel Villar-Pérez Academic, Curator & Writer raquelvillarperez.com It has been a refreshing journey to review this year’s BA photography graduates’ final projects.

source Each year as part of Graduate Photography Online we ask a number of professionals from the world of photography to review all the BA work submitted and choose their favourites. We hope this makes an interesting introduction to the project as a whole. Michael Itkoff Publisher, Daylight Books daylightbooks.org As an annual survey of young talent, Source's showcase is quite ambitious.