In 2008, The Guardian commissioned John McHugh to produce an online project called “Six months in Afghanistan.” The project was to include photography, short films, audio slideshows, and blogging.  McHugh will present his work and speak to Guardian head of photography Roger Tooth at the Frontline Club on Friday April 3 at 7pm.

Fri 3 Apr, Live Webcast on Foto8.

This year's PhotoEspana Festival, opening in Madrid in June, will host more than 30 exhibitions featuring work by photographers as diverse as Larry Sultan, Dorothea Lange, Hans-Peter Feldman, Malick Sidibie, Walid Raad and Sophie Calle. A further 35 exhibitions will comprise an Off Festival selection. In all 248 photographers from over 40 different countries will take part. Curator Sergio Mah spoke to Guy Lane about the theme for the Official Selection - The Everyday

Guy Tillim's latest body of work, Avenue Patrice Lumumba, collates photographs of modernist architecture taken in Angola, Mozambique, Madagascar and the Congo. The buildings recall the bombast of an earlier colonial era, and in their decay they suggest its fate.

Tillim spoke to Guy Lane about the pictures' engagement with history, African identity, and forms of photojournalism.

This year's Format festival in Derby takes as its theme Photocinema and undertakes to suggest and demonstrate many of the points of contact between film and photography, including the influence that each has exerted on the other; photographic and filmic stillness; photographers on screen; photographs in film; and photographers as filmmakers. Curator Louise Clements spoke to Guy Lane about the show.