Most popular photo stories for March 2026

This month, the best-loved photo series published on Dazed takes us from the sunny shores of the Danube to the backwaters of the Mojave Desert with Nadia Lee Cohen and Scarlett Carlos Clarke. Neck Whispering it is shot very early it’s the dog days of the Deep South summer, when Brianna Capozzi’s pictures of fierce women are hot. Water Above the Thunder invites us to delve deeper into Larry Sultan’s views on art and the art of photography, while Catherine Opie It seems invites us to think about the right to be seen while advocating for communities and people whose visibility is suppressed or endangered. Chanel Victor and Alice Mann both turn their lenses to nightlife and the dreams it offers – Victor shoots portraits of Parisian celebrities; Mann documents prom nights across South African schools. Domino Leaha’s Imperfect is a meditation on grief, when Nan Goldin a Sisters, Saints and Sibyls it faces imaginable sorrow and loss.

Brianna Capozzi’s photographs of women are delightful. The New Jersey-born photographer has an eye for a unique style and aesthetic, “with a twist”. In a recent interview, she told Dazed, “I like to be sexy and I like to do provocative work.” His new photo book, Womanizer (published by Rizzoli) collects some amazing images, including his unforgettable Dazed cover. Selena Gomez with oversized Mickey Mouse gloves, her famous image of Gwyneth Paltrow looking delicious with a large spoon and Chloë Sevigny slapped on top of the kitchen counter and wearing a well-placed lobster.

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Water Is Louder Than Thunder (published by MACK) presents selected writings by the late, great American photographer, Larry Sultan. Combining images from his most popular photo series (Pictures from Home and Valley) with his personal writing, this book covers everything from his thoughts on the work of photography to his views on creativity and the principle that guides his need to take pictures, inviting us into the inner workings of his creative ideas and methods with facsimiles of newspaper clippings, lists from books, family photographs, articles from other papers of postcards, educational cards.

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Mostly shot in South America, Marisa Chafetz and Morganne BouldenThe photo book covers the strange contradictions and turmoil of youth – the uncertainty and insecurity of growing up as well as the many dangers and dangerous influences. “I think aging in today’s world is scary. There’s a lot of uncertainty and confusion, but we’re getting along,” Boulden told Dazed in a recent interview. Smoking cigarettes, wrestling in mud pits, fumbling with sheets or standing with handguns, Neck Whispering it revolves around the beauty, pleasures, dangers and irresponsibility of ageing.

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A brand new exhibition by a popular photographer, It seems at London’s National Portrait Gallery, highlights the best works from his career, from his 1990s portraits of Los Angeles’ skinheads to American high school athletes. Although most of his paintings are expansive, the thread that unites them is Opie’s intention to challenge who will be seen. Through his camera, he bears witness to vulnerable communities, individuals and stories. “They keep trying to take away our right to speak and freedom in different ways,” said Opie in a recent interview with Dazed. “The best thing about being an artist is embracing your power and living your life as honestly as you can with the forces that try to suppress you.”

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In awe of Helmut Newton’s terrible vanity, photographer Chanel Victor learned this lesson: “Be brave.” From Nan Goldin’s portraits of her friends and loved ones, Victor took a certain tenderness. He brings both of these qualities to his ongoing series of portraits that capture the fascinating characters of Parisian nightlife. His work combines intimate portraits of cabaret groups, nude artists, singers, dancers and entertainers on stage, backstage, at home and on the city streets.

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“[Prom night is] this is one night where you can show people exactly who you want to be. You can be anyone. They feel like celebrities,” photographer Alice Mann told Dazed for the magazine’s Culture Clash Spring 2026 Issue. Mann’s latest photo book, New Night (published by IDEA) presents haunting, life-affirming images from graduation balls – or “matric dances” – at high schools in Johannesburg, Pretoria, and his birthplace of Cape Town. “It’s still an area with a lot of divisions and gaps in terms of wealth, but this was an easy way to explore that,” he explained. “The students feel that anything is possible these nights; it’s great. The general feeling is one of hope and happiness – they all feel better and all their families are there to celebrate them. Capturing that energy was something I wanted to do, in terms of exploring South African images and other good organizations.”

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“I took pictures of the people I love the most,” Domino Leaha he told Dazed recently, reflecting on his photo series, Imperfect. “Some of them I still talk to, some were old lovers, and a few of them are old friends I don’t talk to anymore.” Following the paths of the singer’s closest friends, lovers and maps across London, Los Angeles, Milan and New York, Imperfect it presents a multitude of stories, which are conveyed in interesting fragments. “These pictures tell about the private and personal stories of loss, heartache, and addiction that we can all find ourselves in. Stories of longing, emptiness, contempt, joy, and surrender are all part of the tragedy and grace of life, in their form that cannot be fulfilled,” Leaha in the introduction of the project. He says: “All the people in the book are broken, and I was broken too.”

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Perhaps his origin story, Nan Goldin‘s Sisters, Saints and Sibyls (published by Thames & Hudson) is a series of personal and poignant photographs. Collected from hospital records, family photos and Goldin’s own paintings, it tells the tragic story of Goldin’s beloved sister, Barbara, who was institutionalized when she entered puberty and died by suicide at the age of 18. The artist dedicates this work to “all the sisters who committed suicide or were organized because of their rebellion”.

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Shot in a one-horse town in the Mojave Desert, Podunkpublished by IDEA Books, is the latest project of friends and colleagues Nadia Lee Cohen and Scarlett Carlos Clarke. Carlos Clarke’s photographs of Cohen see him moving mysteriously through a backdrop of front porches, one-story houses and farmland. Made up of images taken from black and white images taken on Super 8 film – since Carlos Clarke – the project has a timeless, mysterious quality, not captured at any time. “The footage from this movie felt like one of those dark and beautiful black and white movies that you have to show that you’re watching,” Cohen told Dazed in a recent interview. “Mostly Onibababecause of the grass, the place, the people involved. It is a Japanese film about women fighting to survive while men are at war. There was a similar matriarchal theme – so that’s the core of it.”

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Last summer, photographers Guillaume Bihan and Daria Svertilova they travel in a van with their cameras following the Danube across Europe, taking photos along the way of the young people on its banks. Following a large river, flowing through it in ten countries, the two had no fixed plan or journey, except to go where the river led them and see who they met along the way. They shot what would change Of Streams and Lights, and Between in natural light – usually in the evening because it was when the youth seemed to emerge, and the project captures that pleasant feeling of long summer days and warm nights, yet in an increasingly political environment. Now that the tour is over, Bihan wants to invite local photographers to collaborate and create a “think tank” focused on understanding the European situation through the lens of art. “The continent is in a critical situation,” he said, underscoring the importance of projects that “fight fascism through social ideology.”