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Photography

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A small yellow flower held between two hands, one hand gently passing it to the other, set against a blurred natural background.

When Seeing Isn’t Believing: Why Photography Needs Community More Than Ever

FotoFocus's executive director Katherine Ryckman Siegwarth reflects on the growing importance of in-person, community-centered engagement with photography at a moment when generative A.I. and digital mediation increasingly threaten the medium's power to document reality and stimulate public discourse.
By Katherine Ryckman Siegwarth

The Gordon Parks Foundation’s 20th Anniversary Gala Made the Argument for Art as Activism

The electric evening raised a record-breaking $3 million to fund the fellowships, prizes and scholarships that will carry Parks's ideals into the next generation.
By Christa Terry
A grid of torn black-and-white portraits is repaired with thin gold lines.

Don’t Miss: Giles Duley’s “Distortion / Memory / Resilience” at Sutton Tower

As a photographer and storyteller, Duley documents life during war, rather than war itself, in work that is powerful, thoughtful and full of love.
By Kinvara Balfour

Photo London, Like Its Host City, Is Outward-Facing and Ever-Changing

By Henry Roberts

At 88, Joel Meyerowitz Is Still Playing Games

By Henry Roberts
A silver Leica camera with a mounted lens rests on a teal surface beside a book titled “Tazio Secchiaroli: The Original Paparazzo,” featuring a black-and-white photograph on its cover.

The Vintage Leica Market Is Surging as Analog Photography Finds New Devotees

By Elisa Carollo
A strange Polaroid image of a human eye surrounded by swirls that seem like an angry, stormy sea

One Fine Show: “Lucas Samaras – Sitting, Standing, Walking, Looking” at the Art Institute of Chicago

By Dan Duray
A group of four young Native American women in colorful traditional dress stand on a white salt flat landscape under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds.

In an Age of Image Overload, AIPAD’s The Photography Show Reminds Us What a Photograph Can Do

By Elisa Carollo
A young girl in a sleeveless dress stands barefoot on grass at night, her head bowed and body illuminated against a dark wooded backdrop.

The World as Seen Through Yorgos Lanthimos’s Lens

By Jordan Riefe
A black-and-white street scene shows costumed figures holding hands, with others in theatrical outfits gathered around them in a lively urban setting.

One Fine Show: “Ming Smith: Jazz Requiem—Notations in Blue” at the Portland Museum of Art

By Dan Duray
A black-and-white photograph shows a woman in a fluffy hat and heels lying on a bed beside a man in a leopard-print jacket and sunglasses in a hotel room setting.

The Darkness and the Light in Photographer Sante D’Orazio

By Henry Roberts

One Fine Show: “Ann Hamilton, still and moving • the tactile image” at the Cleveland Museum of Art

By Dan Duray
A bearded man wearing a black baseball cap, black T-shirt and chain necklace looks down pensively while standing outdoors against a softly blurred urban skyline.

Dean Majd’s “Hard Feelings” Expands the Emotional Register of Masculinity

By Christa Terry
New York Observer: An image shows two drag performers in elaborate orange costumes and tall headdresses posing underwater among colorful coral and fish, referencing the exhibition’s playful reinterpretation of Darwin and queer marine life.

Don’t Miss: “Darwin in Paradise Camp” at the Whitworth in Manchester

By Henry Roberts
A photographer wearing a gas mask and round protective goggles holds a large camera on a tripod beneath an open umbrella, suggesting the conditions of wartime documentation.

Don’t Miss: “Lee Miller” at Tate Britain

By Henry Roberts
The museum’s central atrium reveals exposed steel beams, staircases and multiple gallery levels filled with photographic displays.

Rotterdam’s Reopened Photography Museum Celebrates the Medium’s Material Nature

By Sarah Moroz
A large figurative painting shows a mermaid with a green tail kneeling in shallow icy water and offering a pink cupcake to a cowboy standing with his back turned next to a saddled horse against a pastel sky.

How a Kansas City Mermaid Became Will Cotton’s Muse

By Adam Robb
A black and white photo of an asian woman sitting in a museum installation

One Fine Show: “Yoko Ono, Music of the Mind” at MCA Chicago

By Dan Duray
A man wearing a white conical hat stands with his forehead pressed against a blank wall while a video camera on a tripod records him from across an empty room, creating a scene of deliberate absurdity characteristic of Erwin Olaf’s April Fool images.

Hans van Manen Remembers Photographer Erwin Olaf

By Nicolas Vamvouklis
A color photograph shows a young man standing upright in floral swim trunks on a crowded beach, with sunbathers, umbrellas and mountains in the background.

LagosPhoto Festival Confronts the Historical Weight of Incarceration

By Gameli Hamelo
A black-and-white photograph from Sally Mann’s At Twelve series shows two young women in period-style clothing posed on the back of a car in a rural setting, capturing adolescence with a mix of nostalgia and tension.

Photography’s Past and Future Hung in Tense Harmony at Paris Photo

By Henry Roberts
A group of men and boys gather in and around a narrow water channel on a sunny day, bathing and swimming in the West Bank, as shown in Adam Rouhana’s Ein Aouja.

“Thirst” at The Wellcome Collection Dives Deep into the Politics of Water

By Henry Roberts
A gallery wall displays a grid of black-and-white photographs showing people in a park, including dancers, children jumping rope, and a man sitting with a boombox, with two wooden benches positioned in front.

Kathy Ryan On Curating Joy Through Different Artists’ Lenses

By Dan Duray
A gallery installation shows a large painting of terraced earth tones on the left and a smaller framed work depicting an industrial interior on the right.

In Edward Burtynsky and Alkan Avcıoğlu’s ‘Hypertopographics,’ Photography Meets A.I.

By Elisa Carollo
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