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Charlotte Jansen

Charlotte Jansen is a journalist and author who writes about photography for the Guardian

June 2026

  • Marilyn Monroe in a dark coat smiles broadly while looking upward, her hair windswept against a pale sky

    Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait review – the radiant, uncontainable star she always wanted to be

  • Roni Horn, photographed in front of her new show at Hauser & Wirth gallery in London, 20 May 2026. Titled: Roni Horn – Seizure of Hope, opening 21 May 2026 - 1 August 2026

    ‘An endless silent scream feeling’: artist Roni Horn on horror, hope and landing in a lake in Iceland

May 2026

  • the spread at Martin Parr's funeral.

    Cupcakes, bunting and a bus stuck in the mud: the funeral of Martin Parr – in pictures

    The photographer loved to record the small details of life, so it was only fitting that his family should organise a send-off inspired by his work. ‘Funerals can be really beautiful,’ says the person tasked with recording the event
  • A shirtless and barefoot young man carries a shirtless boy on his shoulders while surrounded by palm trees.

    My best shot
    Two Venezuelan boys in a forest full of vultures: Silvana Trevale’s best photograph

    ‘I left Venezuela after someone held a gun to my head. But I returned to show what beauty it has – like these two boys coming back from a fishing trip at an amazing beach’

    • Phyllida Barlow: Disruptor review – sexy latex and gobs of gum as a stately home gets trashed

    • double quotation markMounting Rene Matić’s snapshots in glass isn’t really enough to make them interesting

      Charlotte Jansen

    • ‘Of course I accepted!’ Angel Otero on Bad Bunny – and bringing some Puerto Rican flair to Somerset

April 2026

  • Waltraud talks with Emma, a social robot, at a German care home.

    My best shot
    Emma the joke-telling robot cracks up the care home: Paula Hornickel’s best photograph

  • Great Dorset Steam Fair, 2022, by Martin Parr.

    Martin Parr: Global Warning review – the great photographer in all his gluttonous, giddy glory

March 2026

  • Dean Sameshima, Untitled (12 stalls, 1 leather bunk bed, outdoor garden, 1 water fountain, 1 barber's chair, glory-hole platform, Chinese décor, 1995), 1995-97

    Dean Sameshima review – did the neighbours really not know? The extreme LA sex clubs hidden in plain sight

  • Sergeant Jackson rests in a living room during a house search in Rawa, Iraq

    My best shot
    The shot that shows the absurdity of war: Peter van Agtmael’s best photograph

  • Donna Gottschalk A Self-portrait during a GLF meeting, E. 9th Street, New York, 1970 Courtesy of the artist and Marcelle Alix, Paris © Donna Gottschalk

    Donna Gottschalk and Hélène Giannecchini / Deutsche Börse prize review – images to enrage, bamboozle and deeply move you

  • Chloe, 1993, Catherine Opie.

    Catherine Opie: To Be Seen review – a queer carousel of tattoos, fake moustaches and toddlers in tutus

February 2026

  • A man in a white robe and white head wrap is surrounded by satellites on his motorbike as he rides through the desert.

    My best shot
    A bike with 21 satellite dishes struggles through a desert: Hiba Baddou’s best photograph

  • An image from The Valley series, featuring middle-class homes rented out for porn shoots. Valley, from Water Over Thunder: Selected Writings (MACK, 2026). © The Estate of Larry Sultan. Courtesy of MACK.

    Parents, porn sets and Bob’s Big Boy combos: how Larry Sultan photographed American domestic life

January 2026

  • Crowther’s Reclamation Yard, 1960, by Don McCullin.

    Don McCullin review – shattered stone heads and severed limbs echo the horrors he saw in war

  • Grisa Muntean in front of his house at the end of the day.

    My best shot
    The last man left in a Moldovan village: Laetitia Vançon’s best photograph

December 2025

  • David E Scherman dressed for war by Lee Miller, London 1942.

    2025 in culture
    The best art and photography of 2025 – from eye-boggling Bridget Riley to the Face’s riotous fashion

    Jenny Saville’s bruising paintings, Andy Goldsworthy’s immersive stones, Lee Miller’s surrealist shots and Diane Arbus’s unforgiving nudes – our critics highlight a spectacular year
  • Learned a Lesson Then Forgot It, 2021. Photograph: Brooke Didonato for My Best Shot

    My best shot
    Take that Santa! This is me upside-down and naked in a fireplace – Brooke DiDonato’s best photograph

    ‘I wanted to make a perfect square with my body. My back hurt for days afterwards. People often want to know if the kitten is real’
  • Iseult Timmermans, 10 Red Road Flats Scotland, Glasgow, Red Road Flats (place associated) aluminium, ink overall: 670 mm x 1000 mm Photographic print on aluminium. A view over Glasgow at night from one of the windows in the flats. 1 of 17 works entitled '10 Red Road Flats' by Iseult Timmermans.

    ‘The Red Road flats were spectacular – and terrifying’: striking photographs of Glasgow in flux

    From Franz Ferdinand fusing a basement pub’s lights to high-rise flats just days before their demolition, a new show captures the changing city. Its photographers talk us through their shots
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