Photographer David Levene gets an exclusive backstage look at English National Opera’s season-opener – Rossini’s version of Cinderella – complete with white mice, a sprinkle of magic … and men in drag

Jill Furmanovsky has been photographing – and mothering! – Oasis from the start of their career. She looks back on her best images, while Noel Gallagher explains her magic

Kourtney Roy’s filmic photo series The Tourist exposes the loneliness and desperation behind even the most glamorous looking vacation snapshots

From moving family reunions to voguing drag stars, this year’s Recontres d’Arles is promising a host of ‘disobedient’ images

Aware that social media paints an unrealistic picture of ‘perfect’ parenting, Kirsten Lewis spent 15 years capturing the raw reality of life with kids. Her message? Your children love you!

During a period of deep personal turmoil, Marjolein Martinot took her camera down to the riverside in southern France – and began to feel connected again

Female boxers, revolutionary icons and fascinating early works by Martin Parr all feature in the 10th edition of the celebrated festival

From Tower Bridge bathers to moody night bus portraits, these photographs from David Bailey, Mary McCartney and more reinvent the way we see the city

From mambo dancers to Marilyn Monroe’s dress strap, from strip shows to knocked-out boxers, the theme of Magnum’s Square Print Sale is spectacle. Step this way for the unusual and the unbelievable

Artists on the moon, gods in the sea, and guns at the ready in America … here are photographs from the overall winners of this year’s professional competition

The disco mecca was arguably the most famous nightclub of all time – and certainly the most decadent. Between 1978 and 1980, Tod Papageorge captured its glamorous dancers and drinkers

Founded with a $10,000 loan from a dentist, the label has had an extraordinary array of groundbreakers from Aretha Franklin to the Drifters, from Abba to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

Flying lobsters, cuttlefish ink and stargazy pie … Jon Tonks got on his kayak to spend 18 months photographing the incredible fishing communities around England’s south-west coast

In the mid-70s, Hugh Holland stumbled on a group of kids skating in a drainage bowl. His images captured the scene at its rebellious peak – just before it went mainstream

Through the 80s and 90s, the British style glossy defined pop and magazine culture – as a dazzling new exhibition shows

The latest issue of Eyeshot magazine celebrates the serendipity of everyday life – where construction site sunbathers and hovering cemetery angels defy logic

Guardian photographer Sarah Lee enjoyed a night with the stars at the Bafta ceremony at London’s Royal Festival Hall on Sunday

The photographer was a key figure on New York’s downtown scene – but, as a new exhibition shows, his later works dealt with the great losses of the Aids crisis