Sean O’Hagan writes about photography for the Guardian and the Observer, and is also a general feature writer
July 2024
Travelling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell by Ann Powers review – the myriad faces of a musical maverick
‘My flash kept blinding everyone on the dancefloor’: Elaine Constantine on capturing 90s northern soul all-nighters
June 2024
‘Hip-hop is the new avant garde’: John Cale on Lou Reed, anger and continual reinvention
Daniel Kramer obituary
May 2024
‘Biggie, Tupac, Ghostface – those guys saved my life’: Alvaro Barrington on hip-hop, carnival and his Tate show
‘My role was to be a truthful witness’: photographer Jack Lueders-Booth’s Polaroids of American female prisoners
April 2024
‘These people matter’: why Diana Matar photographs the sites where US police have killed civilians
‘The surreal dislocation of the everyday’: how Japanese photographer Akihiko Okamura captured the Troubles as never before
March 2024
‘I was always an uncertain and confused observer’: war photographer Peter van Agtmael on decades on the frontline
‘I wanted to humanise those lost in the statistics’: four directors on their new movies depicting refugee journeys
Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In review – an intriguing double act
The enigma of Rose Dugdale: what drove a former debutante to become Britain and Ireland’s most wanted terrorist?
February 2024
‘Total immersive obsession’: meet the man on a mission to record every bird in Ireland
The ornithologist’s all-consuming quest has made him an unlikely celebrity, and his passion for nature is raising awareness about the seriousness of Ireland’s ecological crisis
‘All my films deal with how to live’: Wim Wenders on Herzog, spirituality and shooting a movie in 16 days
The veteran auteur on how film-making has shaped him, the brutal lesson he learned from teacher Werner Herzog, and why his Oscar-nominated Perfect Days will make you yearn for a simpler life
‘An enigma, an artist who walked to his own beat’: the everyday sublime of photographer Saul Leiter
The late American photographer, who quietly captured small, luminous details of life on the streets of New York, is celebrated in the biggest UK show of his work
January 2024
Book of the day
Josef Koudelka: Next by Melissa Harris review – in praise of a wandering star
A visual biography of the restless and revered Czech photographer reveals his affinity with the Roma people and his eye for haunting, unforgiving landscapes
December 2023
Jonathan Glazer on his Holocaust film The Zone of Interest: ‘This is not about the past, it’s about now’
‘Chaos? This is natural living!’ The genius of Shane MacGowan
Sean O’Hagan
October 2023
‘The band, the scene… I put it all in there’: Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore on his memoir of a rock’n’roll life
‘I am the witness and the subject’: Magnum photographer Jim Goldberg on telling his own story