‘The cat in the coffin almost steals the show’ … the Deutsche Börse photography prize
Landscapes at night, a hallucinatory road trip, ghetto life after the LA riots and a dead pet … our critic weighs the contenders
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Negative humanity: the birth of the digital death mask
The same facial recognition technology that monitors unsuspecting Russian citizens was used to produce this eerie portrait of a Pussy Riot member
Deutsche Börse photography prize shortlist: drones v the women of Tahrir
The murky state of global surveillance and a moving account of the Arab spring, plus refugee activists and a pulled-apart Fiat 500, make up a surprising list
REVIEW: Deutsche Börse 2015 – shadowy burqas v epic towerblocks
Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse spent six years photographing every door and window of a 54-storey tower in Johannesburg, while Viviane Sassen proves herself a sculptor of light. Set beside heartbreaking portraits of LGBTI South Africans and Russians letting loose on the beach, this year’s shortlist is full of intrigue
David Armstrong: photographer of outsiders lately embraced by fashion
Armstrong, who has died aged 60, had a contrasting style to his great friend Nan Goldin, but their subjects were intertwined
Gary Hume: ‘I couldn’t hold down a job. That’s why I became an artist’
A fully paid-up member of the rowdy YBA generation in the 90s, the artist made his name with his household gloss-painted life-size door paintings. On the eve of a solo show at Tate Britain, he talks about his agent Jay Jopling, his farm in upstate New York – and why he now confines his excesses to the studio
Andrea Gjestvang wins L’Iris d’Or at Sony world photography awards
Norwegian photographer, 32, holds off competition with poignant portraits of Anders Behring Breivik massacre survivors
The 10 best … photographic self-portraits
From Andy Warhol in drag and Giles Duley’s ‘broken statue’, to John Coplans’s back and Gillian Wearing as her father
Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature by Paul Martineau – review
The late photographer Eliot Porter has left a stunning record of the shrinking American wilderness
Double exposure: the two faces of Viviane Sassen’s photography
The worlds of fashion and fine art are often mutually exclusive – Sassen’s variety of approach enables her to straddle both
New photography from the Middle East comes to London
An exhibition at the V&A in London this November offers a long-overdue opportunity to admire the sophistication of contemporary Middle Eastern photographic artists
Stan Douglas: Midcentury Studio; Alex Prager: Compulsion – review
Victoria Miro, London; Michael Hoppen, London
Luc Delahaye turns war photography into an uncomfortable art
Hanging on the walls at Tate Modern, Luc Delahaye’s giant, painterly photographs of real-life conflicts wield unsettling power
Scott King Answers FAD’s Questions
9 What are the three big ideas that you would like your work to express?
Subject/Medium/Context and a genius interplay of the three – I’ve never managed it.