Photography

Errol Morris’s new documentary is a touching portrait of photographer Elsa Dorfman

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

Personal politics, labelling and the body: an interview with South African artist Mohau Modisakeng to coincide with his first UK solo exhibition

A report from the 47th edition of the annual photography festival

From the poetry of the late Geoffrey Hill to the new literary genre of the 'ultra-unreal': what to read this weekend

Where else can you find HBO sitcoms, Paul Simon, the industrial history of colour photography and the legacy of Euro ’96?

Race, sexuality and portraiture

‘The photographer was born in Jamaica in 1960 and grew up in Dalston, east London; he was given a Leica camera and taught darkroom techniques by a patron of his local church’

From the fall of Cecil Rhodes to the return of Pee-wee Herman: what we’ve been reading this week

How a photography course in Dhaka is challenging religious and artistic prejudices

Various venues, Shanghai, China

Galleria Raffaela Cortese, Milan, Italy

Galerie Sultana, Paris, France

A. Kasteev Museum of Arts, Almaty, Kazakhstan

The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK

Shanghai Center of Photography, China

Musée de l'Orangerie & Musée d'Orsay, Paris

On the life and work of photographer Germaine Krull, currently the subject of a retrospective at Berlin’s Martin-Gropius-Bau

In her book, Photographs of British Algae, Victorian botanist Anna Atkins reveals the beautiful process of cyanotype

David Campany talks about his latest exhibition at Le Bal, Paris and traces photography's inherently analytical nature