Love story: new photography of love and intimacy

Giving single-use cameras to people living with dementia, The Photobook Project reveals moments of honesty, beauty and connection, challenging stereotypes and proving that every perspective matters. Peter Dench finds out more

£35, Anastasia Publishing, hardcover, 176 pages, ISBN: 9781739116606

‘The unmistakable look of love between two people,” says Hugh Nini, is the common thread among the 4,000+image archive of pre-Stonewall male same-sex couples that he and his husband Neal Treadwell hav

After her brother died, photographer Jo Ritchie found herself unable to pick up a camera. But with a portrait series, she has built a community that turns loss into light, resilience and hope, writes Peter Dench

The best new books you’ll love

HEART THE LOVER BY LILY KING This year marks 250 years since Jane Austen was born so it’s fitting that love stories are having an epic moment. The current fiction boom (sales are up 18% on last year)