Weekly Round Up of the Week of the November 17

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The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries

Battling the Sea on the Outer Banks

Daniel Pullen offers beautifully composed and striking images of the destruction that climate change has brought to his lifelong home.

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Meet the women in Iraq using photography to create solidarity

Iraqi Female Photographers is a collective addressing systemic sexism, a lack of women’s stories, and institutional support in the country.

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Children curate an exhibition of Clyfford Still works inspired by their reservation

As many US museums scale back DEI efforts, the Clyfford Still Museum has taken the opposite approach by giving curatorial control to 100 children from the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation.

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Best Rising Photo-graphers of November 2025

This November 2025 showcase highlights fresh talent from around the world—artists whose work embodies creativity, innovation, and bold new perspectives.

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In a risk-averse market, Paris Photo offers diversity

Japanese galleries return in full force this year, while the percentage of women photographers shown has increased.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the November 10

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The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries

A Master of Fashion Photography Who Embraces Accidents

Paolo Roversi’s studio portraits push the Polaroid process to its limits.

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Bound Narratives is the new festival providing a decolonial approach to the photo book world

Organiser Souheila Ghorbel tells us how the roving project has expanded to include workshops, book signings, talks, and concerts in Tunis.

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All aboard! Legendary hotel and trains company Belmond supports new photography

The luxury brand is working with image-makers to create a new approach to travel photography that conveys subjective experiences over commercial work.

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10 Exhibitions to See in Upstate New York This November

Corrine May Botz’s feast for the psyche, Larissa Tokmakova’s futuristic wrestling matches, Jody Isaacson’s ode to Artemis, and so much more.

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Marlene Dumas becomes the first contemporary woman artist to join Louvre's permanent collection

Nine new works by the South African-born artist were unveiled at the Paris museum last Thursday.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the October 3rd

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The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries

Asia Now Is a Paris Art Fair, Festival, and Incubator

The view of the Seine from the windows warded off the fair numbness that so often sets in amid endless rows of booths in enclosed spaces.

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Storm–four takes on photography’s leading sustainability prize

Discover the world through the lenses of Takashi Arai, Marina Caneve, Tom Fecht, and Laetitia Vançon – finalists of this year’s Prix Pictet award, each offering a distinct interpretation of the theme Storm.

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In historic move, MFA Boston returns works by 19th-century enslaved artist David Drake to his heirs

In a rare, precedent-setting move, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts will return two 1857 works by enslaved Black potter David Drake (c.1800–c.1870) to his descendants.

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A new show at Autograph examines the power and legacy of collage as a creative act

I Still Dream of Lost Vocabularies invites new perspectives on social histories through mixed-media image making, finds Phin Jennings.

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‘Proof that life goes on’: meet some of the people working to rescue—and re-energize—Ukrainian culture

As Russian attacks continue, art is being made, commissioned, and saved by citizens and organisations.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the October 27

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The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries

Facets of truth as Photo Oxford opens

Founded in 2013 and with new director Katy Barron in charge, the biennial international photography festival Photo Oxford returns with a theme that aims for both inclusivity and depth.

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From the series 90 Miles © Michael Christopher Brown

Contemporary artists face off with decommissioned Confederate statues in Los Angeles

The show at the Brick and the Museum of Contemporary Art addresses the US’s fraught racial history—featuring decommissioned Confederate monuments alongside works by Kara Walker, Leonardo Drew, Torkwase Dyson, and others.

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Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Baltimore, Maryland, splashed with red paint. The monument was removed in 2017

The Eaton Fire by William Karl Valentine

The photographer was in Pasadena, caring for my 99-year-old mom, when the Eaton Fire erupted, forcing late-night evacuations and a night spent watching homes burn around us. By morning, the scale of destruction was overwhelming, with beloved places from my childhood reduced to ash.

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Untitled – Jane’ Village, Altadena © William Karl Valentine

Jane Lombard Looks Back at 30 Years of Art and Politics

The New York gallerist’s exhibition 30 X 30 reflects the works she has enjoyed the most — and their incisive and sometimes bracing sociopolitical message.

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Crowds near works by Margarita Cabrera at the opening of 30 X 30 (photo courtesy Kevin Czopek/BFA)

What does being American look like? This platform investigates the nation’s aesthetics

Exploring identity, responsibility, and resistance, Apparently in America uses photography to interrogate what it means to be “American” today.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the October 20

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The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries

Artists Nationwide Unite Against the Trump Administration

Fall of Freedom is a new initiative mobilizing the cultural community to lead acts of “creative resistance” against authoritarian forces.

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Photos Capture Millions Marching in Epic “No Kings” Protests

Artists and photographers immortalized the moment, countering the normalization of state violence with a clear picture of dissent.

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The Art at the Heart of the Nationwide No Kings Protests

Demonstrators nationwide joined No Kings rallies protesting President Trump, carrying handmade signs and artist-designed visuals that defined the movement’s stand against alleged authoritarianism.

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Protest art draws from a powerful legacy of subversion and expression

Art as protest takes many forms, from public art installations and underground zines to parody — all created to make sense of the world and share a message.

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Learning from the past: how historical tariffs have impacted the art market

As data from the last 150 years show, a market that thrives on free trade will have to diversify to survive.

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Aliens, turkeys, astronauts, and more: The costumes of the CT 'No Kings' protests

Several attendees could be spotted wearing costumes at Connecticut protests, inspired by Portland protestors who made national news. Their efforts, dubbed "Operation Inflation," were meant to "deflate the tensions surrounding the protests."

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the October 13

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The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries

This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Let’s Support Native Art

Acknowledging Indigenous survivance is a start, but there’s a critical need to turn recognition into tangible action.

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For Duane Linklater, It’s a Buffalo’s World

The Omaskêko Cree artist ties the well-being of the animals to that of the Indigenous people with whom they have long lived symbiotically — not in nostalgic terms, but in futurist ones.

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What does Paris Photo 2025 have in store?

As Paris Photo returns for its 28th edition, artistic director Anna Planas explains how the photofair is taking an expanded approach and offering alternative perspectives on landscapes.

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The Erotics of Coreen Simpson

The photographer presents the Black woman as an icon of withholding.

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The Guts and Glory of “Indian Rodeo”

For more than a decade, Jeremiah M. Murphy has been trying to capture the beauty of a deeply American sport.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the October 6

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The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries

Five Artists Share Their Work in This Year’s Made in LA Biennial

Ahead of the opening at the Hammer Museum, Hyperallergic spoke to participants whose practices embrace the show’s threads of history and dissonance.

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Widline Cadet, "Shifting Skies"

Immigrant and Protest Imagery Shine at NYC’s Photobook Fest 

The International Center of Photography’s annual showcase captures and quells the anxieties of the present political moment.

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Nicole Motta at the Photobook Fest

10 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This October

Radical nun Corita Kent’s photos, Ofelia Esparza’s transformative Día de los Muertos altars, Cameron Harvey’s biomorphic abstraction, Suchitra Mattai’s syncretic storytelling, and more.

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Corita Kent, "Sister Magdalen Mary, Morris Gallery" (1959)

Lines of Engagement with Contemporary Photojournalism

Lines of Engagement, How Technology, Ethics and Trust Shape Photojournalism Today, provided an urgent insight into the contemporary construction of visual narratives, hosted at the London College of Communication, but open to all in person and online

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From No Woman’s Land © Kiana Hayeri for Fondation Carmignac

During Guadalajara Art Week, exhibitions and fairs raise the city’s profile

The fourth edition of the citywide art event included fairs, pop-up exhibitions and more, attracting new levels of institutional attention.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the September 29

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The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries

Carte Blanche Students 2025: Emerging European photographers take the spotlight

This year’s laureates explore absence, migration, and material presence, while gaining visibility at Paris Photo and Gare de Lyon this November

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The New York Film Festival Dives Into the Art Scene

From feature films to experimental shorts, several highlights of this year’s lineup explore what it takes to live and work as an artist.

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Picasso’s ‘Three Dancers’ sparked my love of art. Let's give others the chance to find their own way in

The arts education crisis in the UK risks holding the young back from discovering what visual culture can teach us about self-expression, empathy, open-mindedness, and more.

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Detroit’s first fair, Season, revs up for inaugural edition

The new fair, which has grown out of Detroit Art Week, will bring 11 galleries, a pop-up exhibition and site-specific installations to the former Michigan Central train station.

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Anonymous Citizens by Mike Ruggiero

“Anonymous Citizens” portrays everyday people in fleeting, contemplative moments—whether in motion, in pause, or in quiet connection. Through scenes of strangers on streets, subways, and parks, the work captures the timeless poetry of ordinary life.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the September 22

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The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries

Picturing a Chinatown Family Across Twenty-two Years

More than two decades ago, the Lams invited Thomas Holton, a photographer, to their apartment for dinner. He’s been part of the family ever since.

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10 Exhibitions to See in Chicago This Fall

From Theaster Gates’s first solo museum exhibition in the city to Destyni Swoope’s ode to community, these shows affirm that creativity is always worth the endeavor.

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For Lygia Clark, Art Was a Means of Survival

The pioneering Brazilian artist and therapist used interactive works to show that art, therapy, and politics are more connected than we may think.

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Wahter Studio and Peter Halley discuss the legacy of INDEX Magazine

The discontinued magazine receives a retrospective exhibition as part of Paris Design Week

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Rodney Smith: Photography between real and surreal

The Rodney Smith Estate marks its 10th anniversary with a new book and global retrospectives. Smith’s 45-year career produced iconic fashion, portrait, and campaign work, celebrated for its cinematic style and technical mastery.

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Past. Present. Seen.

Professional Women Photographers (PWP) marks its 50th anniversary with Past. Present. Seen. Founded in 1975, PWP has long championed women’s visibility and creativity in a male-dominated field. The show celebrates the organization’s legacy and ongoing mission to amplify women’s stories through photography.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the September 15

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The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries

The Photographer Who Looked Past the Idea of Italy

Gianni Berengo Gardin spent a lifetime revealing the real people, real ironies, and real beauty of a country that people only think they know.

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Stephen Shore’s Precocious Adolescent Eye

A new book titled “Early Work” reveals that the acclaimed American photographer barrelled into the medium fully formed.

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Passports, Prints, and Protest at the NY Art Book Fair

The indie presses exhibiting at Printed Matter’s annual fair, now back at MoMA PS1, put an irreverent twist on the subversive histories of radical publishing.

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Beverly Semmes’s Feminist Palimpsests

Women’s bodies are a locus for corrosive stereotypes and ebullient individuality in the artist’s sculpture, painting, fashion, and more.

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The sixth Aichi Triennale seeks to encompass destruction and renewal

The exhibition’s artistic director Hoor Al Qasimi says this edition does not shy away from traumatic events, but also finds strength in tales of survival.

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A photo festival in Istanbul boasts a female-led festival team and a dynamic discovery approach

Rapidly expanding across the city’s historic venues since its 2018 inception, 212 Photography Istanbul puts the focus on discovery with an enticing mix of local and international artists.

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Round Up of the Week of the September 8

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The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries

“It is time for image-makers to get organised to protect themselves”: Fight for your copyright

The UK government is consulting on changes to copyright legislation that will help AI companies at the expense of photographers and other creatives. Isabelle Doran – CEO of the Association of Photographers (AOP), vice chair of the Creators’ Rights Alliance, and board member of the British Copyright Council – reports for BJP

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Over fifty women photographers use collage as a feminist form at CPW, Kingston

Cutting up the canon of photographic images gave Justine Kurland an interest in collage that has blossomed into The Rose, a celebrated exhibition on show and in print this summer.

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Twentieth Century Portrait Photography at the National Arts Club

Influence and Identity: Twentieth Century Portrait Photography from the Bank of America Collection is on view at the historic Gramercy Park arts institution this fall.

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A Chicago Artist-Run Gallery’s Last Hurrah Before Forced Closure

Roman Susan will host its last projects this month ahead of the demolition of its historic building by owner Loyola University Chicago. 

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Carmignac Photojournalism Award – 15th Edition Winner

Nicole Tung has been named the laureate of the 15th Carmignac Photojournalism Award, dedicated to Southeast Asia and the human and environmental toll of illegal fishing. Over nine months, she investigated the hidden world of industrial fishing in Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia—uncovering its impact on marine life, coastal communities, and migrant workers.

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Round Up of the Week of the September 1

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The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries

Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985

Never-before-seen photographs alongside images of cultural icons reveal the medium’s central role during a pivotal era of creative expression


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Announcing the 2025 Inge Morath Award

Magnum Foundation, Magnum Photos, and the Inge Morath Estate have announced Somaya Abdelrahman as the 2025 Inge Morath Award winner, receiving $7,500 for her project Tired Souls Seeking Home.

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Months After LA Fires, Altadena’s Black History Endures

An exhibition at the California African American Museum is both an exercise in reverence and a declaration of resilience for the neighborhood’s artistic community.

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Magnum Photos agency’s first exhibition, lost for a half-century, to make its North American debut

Materials from the 1955-56 exhibition, including 83 photographs, were rediscovered in Austria in 2006.

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The Surreal Images of Erick and Elliot Jiménez

In “El Monte,” the Cuban American photographers construct a dizzying world inspired by a seminal work of ethnography.

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Round Up of the Week of the August 26

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The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries

The Vibrant, Disappearing World of India’s Photo Studios

The photographer Ketaki Sheth stumbled upon one of the dying businesses, which have been rendered obsolete in the smartphone era—then made it her mission to commemorate them in style.

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The heart of the matter: Carrie Mae Weems on show at Gallerie d’Italia

Carrie Mae Weems is an iconic figure and yet, argues a new retrospective in Turin, there is still much more to say about the universality and magic of her extensive body of work.

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Pérez Art Museum Miami explores the evolution of photography, from Marina Abramović and Zanele Muholi to Wolfgang Tillmans

Co-curator Fabiana Sotillo explains how the show has been structured and the importance of considering photography as a medium of fine-arts.

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“We know about war photography, but what about peace photography?”: In conversation with Dr Tiffany Fairey

The academic is based in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London but, she explains, her work centres around peace photography, what it looks like, and how it can contribute to harmony.

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37th International Festival of Photojournalism Visa pour l'Image

Visa pour l’Image, curated by Jean-François Leroy, showcases the courage of photojournalists who reveal global crises while reminding us of the fragility of press freedom. Blending truth with beauty and hope, the free festival in Perpignan features new guest exhibitions and Spotify soundtracks, offering visitors a powerful and moving experience.

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Round Up of the Week of the August 18

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The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries

What Have We Done? Unpacking 7 decades of World Press Photo

World Press Photo will mark its 70th anniversary in 2025 with a major exhibition curated by artist and photographer Cristina de Middel. Titled What Have We Done? Unpacking Seven Decades of World Press Photo, the show reflects on the organization’s history and the global impact of its award-winning images.

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Standing Still in a Constant State of Departure by Landry Major and Cash Kasper

A mother and son’s shared language of photography becomes a bridge between worlds. Created after the loss of her son Cash, this series blends their images into a vision of light, love, and connection beyond grief.

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Agnès Varda’s Photographic Odes to Queer Paris

Varda spent much of her 20s photographing the queer community of Montparnasse, where she shared a life, home, and creative practice with sculptor Valentine Schlegel.

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Art and Resilience Aligned at This Year’s BlackStar Film Festival

The festival’s 92 films from around the globe showcased cinema as a tool for experimentation, liberation, and resistance.

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Balam Magazine N11 pays tribute to archives as spaces of resistance, memory and collective identity

A conversation with Luis Juárez, editor of LATAM’s first queer photography magazine, on its latest issue and collaboration with Nan Goldin.

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Some of Hip Hop’s biggest stars grace the walls London’s Saatchi Gallery

Galerie Bene Taschen exhibit the works of Jamel Shabazz, Joseph Rodriguez and Gregory Bojorquez throughout the 1980s and 90s, documenting the genre’s rise to popularity

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Round Up of the Week of the August 4

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The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries

At the Edge of Life and Death in Ukraine

A new photo book by Eddy van Wessel, with nearly two hundred images taken over the course of three years, offers a visual history of the war’s devastation.

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Landscape and Alchemy

Landscape and Alchemy showcases Katja Liebmann and Nadezda Nikolova’s use of historic photo processes to transform landscapes into emotional, atmospheric meditations.

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How Do You Remember a Home Reduced to Rubble?

Through interviews with survivors and satellite imagery, data journalist Mona Chalabi and SITU Research created models of razed houses in Gaza, Iraq, and Syria.

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Mohammad Tariq intervenes in found imagery to reveal colonial complicity

With a simple glass device, the London-based Pakistani-Bengali artist turns archival photo books into sinister revelations on British colonial histories

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Even late in life, recognition is possible’: photographer Paz Errázuriz opens long overdue UK retrospective

The 81-year-old image maker, known for documenting marginalised communities in Chile, recently opened a show at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes.

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Round Up of the Week of the July 28

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The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries

Teen-Agers in Their Bedrooms, Before the Age of Selfies

Adrienne Salinger’s cult photography book from the nineties makes a comeback.

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“I’m tethered to my mother, and she’s tethered to my queerness”: Nimie Li charts migration, sexuality and family

The photographer’s graduate project, which explores his Chinese-British adolescence through his relationship with his mother, poses questions about how movement affects intimacy.

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BlackStar Festival Returns With 92 Films From Around the World

A biography of Black writer and activist Toni Cade Bambara is among this year’s highlights, and a documentary filmed in Gaza tells the story of a teenager afraid of getting “cancelled.”

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New York’s Market Gallery evolves from Chinatown apartment to Soho pop-up

The buzzy gallery, run out of founder Adam Zhu’s renovated storage shed, launched an inaugural group show on Mercer Street.

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The Echo of Our Voices: The Day May Break, Chapter Four

Nick Brandt’s new book The Echo of Our Voices, launching with a solo exhibition in Brussels, portrays displaced Syrian families in Jordan facing climate change. The series highlights their resilience and forms part of his global project on environmental degradation.

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Round Up of the Week of the July 21

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The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries

Earth’s Poet of Scale

Edward Burtynsky’s monumental chronicle of the human impact on the planet.

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Les Rencontres d’Arles returns with an expanse of shows across territories

From themes of mythologised memories and ancestral resistance to decolonial archives, this year’s edition of the world’s biggest photography festival centres global narratives

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Ruth Asawa Showed Us the Way to an Artistic Life

Asawa gracefully wove together many sides — an innovative and singular artist, a tireless advocate for arts education, a community builder, and a loving wife and mother. 

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Art Comes Naturally in Upstate New York

When no cultural divide is as great as urban versus rural, where are the true boundaries located?

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Discover the 50 Award-Winning Images from All About Photo Awards 2025! (Part II)

The All About Photo Awards 2025 drew powerful submissions from around the world. Part 2 of the winners showcase features standout images that capture the depth and diversity of contemporary photography.

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Round Up of the Week of the July 14

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The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries

Sink or Swim

In Tod Papageorge’s photographs of L.A. beachgoers in the nineteen-seventies and eighties, he transforms formally challenging scrums into theatrical vignettes or semi-abstractions.

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the photo journal documenting the joy of African life

Started as a vehicle for his own work, Arinzechukwu Patrick’s Random Photo Journal has grown into a lively magazine on Africa and beyond.

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Why Take a Selfie in 2025?

It’s been a decade since selfies took over the internet, and while they remain a staple of online culture, the way people take and share them has evolved significantly.

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Street Photography At The End Of The 80s

Halle an der Saale, once veiled in smoke and spirit, lives on in a box of old negatives kept for decades. Shot before the fall of the Wall, the images reflect a city on the brink of transformation—its texture, people, and quiet strength frozen in time.

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Betty Yu: Family Amnesia

Family Amnesia is a visual tribute by Betty Yu that explores her Chinese American family’s resilience across generations. Through mixed media and archival materials, the book connects personal stories to broader Asian American struggles, from the Chinese Exclusion Act to COVID-era racism. It’s both a love letter and a powerful act of historical reclamation.

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Round Up of the Week of the July 7

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The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries

An Enduring Archive of Queer Writers’ Portraits

Robert Giard spent his career photographing hundreds of cultural luminaries and niche literary figures in the hopes of “recording something of note” about the gay experience.

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AAP Magazine 48: Portrait Photography Competition Winners Announced

AAP Magazine’s 48th issue celebrates 25 portrait photographers whose work captures raw emotion and human depth. From candid moments to studio shots, the winners reflect diverse styles and powerful stories across cultures.

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Belfast Photo Festival returns to explore place and personhood

Now in its fifteenth year, the UK and Ireland’s largest photographic festival is back. Belfast Photo Festival’s theme ‘Biosphere’ asks what we owe the land and what we owe each other.

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Joe Overstreet’s Activism Through Abstraction

A fundamental part of Overstreet’s mission was to break free of the flat, rectangular picture plane and the Eurocentric view of painting that dominated American art.

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Key player in Norval Morrisseau forgery ring pleads guilty

James White, a prominent member in the vast network, pleaded guilty to forgery and trafficking.

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Round Up of the Week of the June 23

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The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries

The Magic of Daylight in a Land of Sun Worship

With “P’unchaw,” the photographer Victor Zea captures the light falling on Cuzco, Peru, where people have mixed Catholic and Indigenous Andean beliefs.

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When NYC’s Piers Were a Sanctuary for Gay Gathering

In the 1960s, amid the shipping industry’s decline, the empty piers became a site for cruising and creativity for gay men in particular.

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Reëxamining Victimhood in Guatemala

The photographer Luis Corzo returns to the scene of his own kidnapping.

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Welcome to Photofusion, a legacy photo co-operative in Brixton

Set up in 1990, the space remains committed to image-making and image-makers, and now has a handsome new London home, Tom Seymour and Diane Smyth report

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Hannah Darabi wins the Prix Elysée


In the pages of The Secrets of Sexual Fulfilment, Mahvash – a popular figure among the working class of 1950s Tehran – presented playfully risqué images of herself alongside the fictionalised story of her life.

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