The September 2026 edition of FRAMES Digital brings together eight distinctive features spanning personal photographic projects, alternative processes, contemporary exhibition writing, documentary work, architecture, family relationships, and the continuing life of analog photography.
Katarzyna Janikowska-Leett opens the issue with Comeback, Not Compost: A Perimenopausal Revolt Against Georgia O’Keeffe’s Flowers, a deeply personal, darkly humorous body of work in which decaying flowers, fruit, and everyday objects become metaphors for changing identity, aging, illness, and perimenopause.
Ashok Viswanathan takes us into the hands-on world of the Van Dyke Brown process, explaining the history, chemistry, materials, exposure, and printing techniques behind this beautiful nineteenth-century photographic process—and showing why alternative printing methods continue to attract photographers today.
In Beneath the Surface: What’s in a Photograph?, Gina Williams examines a major exhibition devoted to photography’s complicated relationship with mining and resource extraction: both as a medium dependent upon minerals and metals, and as one of the most important tools for documenting the environmental and human consequences of extracting them.
Dr. Ioannis Galanopoulos Papavasileiou presents Interiors, a visually precise study of ceilings, skylights, oculi and architectural fragments photographed in public interiors across the UAE. The series turns often anonymous, transitional spaces into quiet meditations on enclosure, memory, repetition and our relationship with the built environment.
In The Geometry of Silence: A Journey Through Time and Matter, Simone Zeffiro reflects on two decades of photography—from landscapes, storms and fashion to a deliberate withdrawal from image-making—and on his eventual return with a quieter philosophy centered on shadow, presence, reduction and photographic legacy.
Bob Neiman’s Truck Graveyard explores a collection of abandoned American trucks from the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. Rust, cracked glass, bullet holes and worn interiors transform these former farm workhorses into haunting studies of time, memory, decay and the traces left behind by use.
In this month’s Conversation, Alasdair Foster looks at Valery Poshtarov’s Sons and Fathers, an ongoing international series in which fathers and their adult sons are photographed holding hands. A deceptively simple gesture opens questions about masculinity, tenderness, inherited values, generational distance and human connection.
Finally, Stephen Smith marks the twentieth installment of his Analog Revolution series with A Natural Death? He looks back over the subjects explored since 2023—from film’s resurgence and hybrid workflows to new cameras, sustainability, AI and large-format photography—and asks readers whether the series has reached its natural conclusion or should continue.
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