Gathering images from 1865 to the present day, a new charity show focuses on children at play – from baking bread to playing on demolition sites

In November 1948, the great photographer went to shoot ‘the last days of Beijing’. He returned to China in 1958 to capture the results of the Maoist revolution. Images from both visits are brought together for the first time in an exhibition in Paris

The French humanist movement of the 1930s changed photography for good. A new exhibition at Paris Photo showcases the greats, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Willy Ronis, and Martine Franck

Vanessa Winship has travelled the world exploring rifts, erasures and people at the edges. The winner of the prestigious Henri Cartier-Bresson award is now the subject of a new show at London’s Barbican

US photojournalist Marilyn Stafford worked for fashion houses, and documented the lives of slum children and refugees fleeing Algeria’s war of independence

Tatty washing lines on backstreet terraces, natty Oxford students on bikes, and a man blowing bubbles for the joy of it – foreign photographers best capture British idiosyncrasies on the evidence of a new exhibition curated by Martin Parr

Its ambition was astonishing: to showcase the beautiful universality of human experience. Its mastermind, Edward Steichen, honed 2m pictures down to 503, capturing life in 69 countries. It started out at MoMA in 1955 then toured the world. Now, it’s back