Roland Ramanan spent more than 10 years documenting the evolution of a new public space in Hackney and its many and varied users

T​he German photographe​r, who died earlier this month, ​moved to New York in 1976 where he took many celebrated images including this shot of Gus the polar bear

​Chilean photographer Sergio Purtell captures a girl trying out a toy monkey in his wry 1980s series exploring his adopted home

The American photographer’s connection with his countrymen shines through in portraits of people going about their daily lives

Kircher’s seemingly innocent shot of his father’s girlfriend having her hair dyed in an Istanbul salon belies the truth about the couple’s reason for visiting

The photographer was commissioned to capture Héliopolis, an early naturist resort created on an island off the French riviera by two doctors

With his groundbreaking use of colour, the New York photographer captured a sense of freedom with flamenco artists living under General Franco’s rule

After years working for fashion magazines, the Dutch photographer set off on an adventure to Budapest in 1975

The photographer’s shot of girls at the Highland Games was taken during five years visiting traditional gatherings

The Indian photographer’s nocturnal studies capture the otherworldly feel of the small hours

The pioneering ​photographer, who would have been 100 next month, showcases her eye for the uncanny​ with this image of a newspaper stand

Pioneering Black photographer Ming Smith captures four boys creating rafts from rubbish in New Jersey

The celebrated ​writer, who died last week, is captured​ by Arnold Newman in his study ​in 1993​ with his trusty Olympia manual typewriter​

Taken over several years, the British photographer’s latest series shows her world narrowing as loss, and lockdown, strike

The Russian Magnum photographer’s work celebrates the abstract side of vision, with a vivid exchange of form, light and pattern

Claire Douglass’s giant vista of ‘late-stage capitalism in frightening times’ features many city notables, including Joe Lycett clutching a carrier bag

Phil Loach photographed the streets he’d known since childhood in the West Midlands for 50 years, capturing moments of everyday drama and quiet humour

James Rokop’s photography reveals the extreme athleticism of a sport that has struggled for recognition

The Middlesbrough-born photographer’s 1981 portrait has intimations of the gruelling working life endured by his father and of Britain’s lost industrial past

Seemingly shot on the French Riviera, the grand make-believe and glamour of this famous image is characteristic of the photographer’s work for French Vogue’s golden age