Weekly Round Up of the Week of the July 6

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

Hasselblad Masters 2026 Photography Competition Announces Its Winners

The Hasselblad Masters 2026 winners have been announced, with seven photographers earning the prestigious title for their exceptional artistry, technical excellence, and innovative vision.

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National Gallery in London adds to its collection of women artists with Angelica Kauffman donation

A painting by the 18th-century artist was given to the museum by Dallas-based collectors Richard and Luba Barrett, alongside two other works

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The Most Loved Photo Stories of June 2026

This month, your favourite photo stories explore the ‘crazy’ streets of New York at night, the spiritual ceremonies of Mexico City, the world of Mumbai’s beauty influencers, and much more...

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United States of America: 250 Years

To mark the 250th anniversary of the United States, we spotlight a selection of projects by Magnum photographers over the past 20 years, exploring America today

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Potent Art Lets ‘We, the People’ Reflect on America’s Past and Present

The New York Public Library has filled its top floor with a bold account of contemporary artists coming to terms with the state of our nation.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the June 29

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

Youth in revolt: Powerful portraits of London's 2026 anti-war protest

23 years after documenting the record-breaking protest against the Iraq war, photographer Gareth McConnell captures the faces of dissent fighting back against the US-Israeli assault on Iran

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Sasha Kurmaz’s Red Horse Wins the 2026 Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award

Red Horse by Ukrainian artist Sasha Kurmaz is a thought-provoking, diaristic journey into war and its representation

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5 Photographs That Shine in National Geographic’s New Museum

Visual storytelling is at the core of the National Geographic Museum of Exploration, which opens on Friday in downtown Washington, D.C.

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Every Dog Has Its Artist

A compassionate new book explores how canine companions across Western art history break down the emotional boundaries between species.

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Best Rising Photographers of June 2026

This June 2026 edition presents a curated selection of emerging and established photographers whose original and compelling work highlights the diversity of contemporary photography.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the June 22

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

Generation Z: Salih Basheer and Sudan

For the second edition of Magnum Chronicles, the cooperative’s photographers work collaboratively with young people around the world to paint a global portrait of Generation Z

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Camille Vivier’s fierce, fantastical photographs of the female form

As a major retrospective of her work opens in Paris, the French image-maker talks horror films, voodoo candles, and her first female fantasy

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The Inner Worlds of Black Quilters

She is often reminded of the warmth of a quilt at her great-grandmother’s house, the weight of wool and polyester patchwork that dared you to try to break free.

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A Photographer’s View From a Magical Basketball Ride in New York

While fans watched their team, José A. Alvarado Jr. watched the crowd.

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Biennale de la Photographie de Mulhouse 2026 travels through landscape and mental geographies

Themed Sédimentation(s), the seventh edition of the biennial festival in Mulhouse takes a layered approach to images and the land in exhibitions throughout the French city.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the June 15

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

Painter David Hockney, Who Made the Everyday Otherworldly, Passed at 88

His work over a prolific six decades ranged from psychologically precise portraits to luminous depictions of California pool sides.

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The Long Road to Margaret Thatcher’s Britain

In Paul Graham’s book “A1: The Great North Road,” life along a major British thoroughfare reveals fissures in the nation’s identity.

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Performing Photography

The new issue of BJP features a portrait of Harriet Logan and Tristan Lund, made by Jillian Edelstein in a public photo shoot arranged by Dr David Moore at the University of Westminster. Here Moore explains how this event came about – and why he wanted to do it

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7 Art Books You Should Read This Pride Month

This month, delve into new books that highlight queer and trans artists — past and present — who have always shaped the realms of visual art and culture.

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This Magazine Celebrates the Best of Diasporic Culture

As they speak to Dalia Al-Dujaili, the founder of Road to Nowhere, about the fourth volume of the magazine and why supporting migrant artists is more important than ever

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the May 8

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

Body as Resistance

The role of women’s bodies and the colonial history of photography inform the photographer's debut.

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The Black Photographers Who Exposed My Own Brainwashing

An exhibition at The Getty gave artists the peculiar feeling of peeking behind a curtain in their own house and discovering new things about a topic I thought I knew well. 

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Photo Basel 2026 Celebrates the Expanding Language of Photography

Photo Basel 2026 returns as Switzerland’s premier photography art fair, reaffirming its position as the country’s first and only international fair dedicated exclusively to photographic art.

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Polycentric histories of photography at Museum Rietberg

The Museum Rietberg’s first curator of photography and head of the photo archive, Nanina Guyer, is helping the institution rethink its approach to images from the colonial era and beyond.

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Reflecting New York - A Brilliant Twist on Street Photography

Using a hand-held mirror and his very sharp eyes, photographer Stefan Falke allows us to see street scenes from New York we’ve never seen before.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the June 1

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

The Expansive Joy of Mao Ishikawa

The photographer doesn’t sentimentalize her subjects; she pays attention to them.

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Nancy Sheung, Whose Camera Captured Women on Their Own Terms

In 1960s Hong Kong, she used photography to portray women as bold, self-possessed and unconstrained by traditional expectations.

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Photographs that Document the Journey to Womanhood

The beloved photographer’s recent exhibition in Claire de Rouen brought together tender pictures of girlhood and womanhood from her vast archive.

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The Waves Came in Like Horses

Through layered composites of landscapes, negatives, and organic forms, Stephanie O’Connor creates chimeric images that blur boundaries between self and other — capturing the uncanny sensations of pregnancy, where cellular exchange creates lasting biological connections.

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Artist-brothers’ Kennedy Center project aims to unite the US in divisive times

National Scrollathon, an exhibition by Steven and William Ladd, represents 10,000 Americans of “every age, background, political affiliation, orientation, race”

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the May 25

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

How Raghu Rai Captured an India in Transition

The photographer, who died last month, at the age of eighty-three, spent his life chronicling the highs and lows of the country’s post-colonial evolution.

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Authorities in New York return more than 650 looted antiquities, valued at nearly $14m, to India

The objects were recovered through investigations into trafficking networks, including those linked to convicted smuggler Subhash Kapoor and trafficker Nancy Wiener.

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Generation Z: Antoine d’Agata in Georgia and the U.S.

For the second edition of Magnum Chronicles, the cooperative’s photographers are working with youth around the world to paint a global portrait of Generation Z.

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Karla Knight’s Cosmic Conspiracies

The artist’s game-like paintings and tapestries suggest an overactive imagination fueled by generations of crackpot supernatural lore.

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Gabrielle Goliath Sounds a Call to Action in Venice

With “Elegy,” the South African artist proposes that grief is a necessary tool for building solidarity.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the May 18

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

Sex, Clubs, Dissent: This photo book presents a history of queer nightlife.

As they speak to author Amelia Abraham about her new book, which celebrates queer nightlife from the 1960s to the present day, as a site of resistance and self-expression.

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Finnish museum creates a new and radical support model for artists

A Finnish museum is launching an ambitious new model of artist support that goes far beyond the standard exhibition schedule to encompass financial, practical and institutional backing.

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The Joy of Discovery at 1-54 Art Fair

Though smaller than previous editions, the contemporary African art fair draws our attention to works that are tactile, surprising, and alive with material expression.

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21st Century Street Photography: 250 New Examples

Street photography connects us with humanity in all its forms, and in turn, allows us to be and feel more human in our day to day lives—here are many, many inspiring examples from cultures around the world. Enjoy!

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Best Rising Photographers of May 2026

Explore this curated selection of 10 emerging photographers who are redefining visual storytelling in May 2026. Sourced from across the globe, this month’s spotlight celebrates bold new voices in contemporary photography—each bringing a distinct perspective on culture, identity, and the human experience.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the May 11

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

The Grandmothers Who Become Mothers Again

In “Mawmaw,” the photographer Anthony Wilson pays tribute to West Virginia women who, after one tragedy or another, care for their children’s children.

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Dozens of Venice Biennale Artists Withdraw From Awards En Masse

Almost half of the artists in the international exhibition, plus 16 national pavilions, signed onto a statement of withdrawal in solidarity with the jury’s resignation.

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The Future of Cuba

Moises Saman documents Cuba’s worsening humanitarian crisis since the Trump administration’s energy embargo in January 2026

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Art shows to leave the house for in May 2026

Dreamy New York scenes, an ode to the friends and lovers of Peter Hujar, a glimpse of Cindy Sherman and much more...

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The most loved photo stories of April 2026

This month, your favourite photo stories take you behind the locked doors of Tokyo’s love hotels, to the hardcore rave parties in Barcelona, the sun-kissed, glittering beaches of the Mediterranean and beyond...

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the May 4

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

An Art Fair for the “Global Majority” Debuts in Brooklyn

Conductor Art Fair at Powerhouse Arts seeks to represent the underrepresented, with some notable overlap with next week’s Venice Biennale.

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Paul McCarthy: ‘The world is now an extreme absurdity. The work is a reaction to that’

The veteran provocateur talks about his return to the enduring motif of Santa Claus, and his ongoing collaboration with the German actress Lilith Stangenberg, as an exhibition of his taboo-busting work opens in Paris.

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The Nature of Hope: A Photo Project Supporting Roots & Shoots and Vital Impacts

A global photographic project developed through Vital Impacts, the non-profit Vitale founded. At a time when climate anxiety dominates headlines, this initiative offers something rare and necessary: a perspective grounded not in despair, but in hope, legacy, and the enduring resilience of the natural world.

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Pittsburgh’s burgeoning gallery community readies for its moment in art world spotlight

As the latest Carnegie International arrives, Pittsburgh’s long-running and newer commercial art spaces make the case for a more supportive, sustainable and slower-paced scene

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15 Art Shows to See in NYC This May

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye captures quietude, Seydou Keïta documents a revolution, Renée Green compiles an autoethnography, and much more.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the April 27

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

Image of Family Torn by ICE Wins World Press Photo of the Year

I hope it stirs people out of any sense of complacency,” said photojournalist Carol Guzy.

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The Photography Show fair’s 45th edition explores medium’s full history from its origins to AI

Aipad’s annual fair brings nearly 80 exhibitors to the Park Avenue Armory, seeking to be both an approachable entry point for new collectors and a place of discovery for connoisseurs

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Towering homage to Bamiyan Buddhas rises over Manhattan’s High Line

For the fifth High Line Plinth commission, the Vietnamese American artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen has created a 27ft-tall version of the 6th-century Buddhas that were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001

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The Witching Hour

In a series of cinematic images made with her aging father and young son, Anastasia Sierra creates a space for the conflicting emotions and different phases of motherhood.

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All About Photo Awards 2026: Winners Selected by Steve McCurry

As they unveil the winners of the 2026 All About Photo Awards – The Mind’s Eye, He find himself reflecting not only on the extraordinary images selected this year, but also on the remarkable collective effort behind them.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the April 20

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

Dismantling Orbán’s 16-Year Grip on Hungary’s Art World

As a Hungarian curator living in the United States, she cannot help but see her country as both a cautionary tale and a source of hope for artistic freedom.

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Tania El Khoury’s Soothing “Revenge Art.”

The Lebanese artist and Bard College professor spoke with Hyperallergic about her recent projects and precarious life under bombardment in Beirut.

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Ecstatic Time: The Alchemy of Photography

The Phoenix Art Museum opens Ecstatic Time: The Alchemy of Photography on July 29, 2026.
Organized with the Center for Creative Photography, it features nearly 100 works exploring perception and time.

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Grassroots advice and community at Offspring Photo Meet

Set up by industry insiders, Offspring Photo Meet is a world-class portfolio review – and a way to enrich the photo-community.

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Pyramiden by Damien Aubin

In the high Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, where human presence feels provisional and time itself seems suspended, Pyramiden emerges as a rare and contemplative photographic work.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the April 13

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

World Press Photo Reveals 2026 Contest Winners

The World Press Photo organization has announced the winners of the 2026 World Press Photo Contest, continuing its long-standing mission to showcase the most impactful photojournalism and documentary photography from around the world

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Artists respond to the continuing toll of colonialism in the Americas

A landmark show at Wrightwood 659 features works by more than 35 contemporary Latin American artists.

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Ideas of social justice at this year’s Kyotographie International Photography Festival

Established in a picture-perfect historical city, Kyotographie photofestival pushes the boundaries on what can be shown, and for its 14th edition, spotlights work made in South Africa.

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Stories Behind Revolutions

The BBC podcast The Rest is History turned to the Magnum archive to explore the stories behind revolutions around the world, captured by Magnum photographers.

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Remembering Agosto Machado, Keeper of Queer Histories

The late performer and archivist spent decades as the quiet holder of our secrets, always behind the scenes, always a connector.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the March 6

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

How Robert Rauschenberg Made the Real Realer

The artist bent the medium of photography to suit his creations.

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Patterns: Art of the Natural World

Photographer Jon McCormack's meditation on the geometric patterns that define our planet's most breathtaking landscapes and ecosystems.

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Monumental 37ft-long Indian scroll goes on public view for the first time at Yale Center for British Art

After two years of conservation, the 19th-century Lucknow scroll is on show in New Haven, Connecticut.

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A Kind of Paradise is overwriting hierarchical colonial visuals

The new exhibition at Zurich’s Museum Rietberg highlights artists working with historic images.

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10 Exhibitions to See in Upstate New York This April

As spring arrives with shifting moods, Upstate New York’s vibrant exhibitions mirror the season’s energy through diverse and dynamic art. From abstraction to sculpture and cultural traditions, April’s shows invite you to embrace creativity and renewal.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the March 30

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

How to Survive AI

The documentaries “Ghost in the Machine” and “The AI Doc” both end in calls to action, but arrive there in different ways.

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Meet the keepers of Black photography’s archives

In Accra, artists, archivists, collectors, and scholars gathered for an inaugural symposium that asked how to preserve Black photographic history and what care truly looks like.

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Torbjørn Rødland Touches the Romantic and the Profane

In a new exhibit, the Norwegian photographer finds divergent ways to break through and touch an audience numbed by visual glut.

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The Powerful Winning Images of AAP Magazine 55 Women

With its 55th edition, AAP Magazine celebrates the strength, resilience, and creative power of women through the work of 25 selected photographers.

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Sicily Photo Masterclass brings community and creativity to a once-shattered region

Hosted by Mimi Mollica in the scenic Belíce Valley, a group of photographers gathers each year to celebrate life and make work inspired by a landscape decimated by a devastating earthquake half a century ago.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the March 23

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

China’s Shifting Relationship to the Countryside

Catherine Hyland’s images show what happened after the giant migration to the cities.

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Climate change is forcing tough choices—how much heritage can we save before it is too late?

As increasingly extreme weather threatens cultural sites, archaeologists are turning to technology to try and record them before they are lost forever.

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Time for a rethink: women artists were never meant to merely be canon fodder

Exhibitions pairing Munch with Paula Modersohn-Becker and Maria Lassnig provide opportunities to subvert the established order.

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Gullah artist Sam Doyle’s narrative portraits shine at Outsider Art Fair in New York

His works, painted on found wood and discarded tin, illuminate culture on the remote Saint Helena Island.

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Mothering beyond performativity at Mucem Marseille

Bonnes Mères blends film, photo, painting and sculpture to offer an honest and generous look at motherhood.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the March 16

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

What a Movie Set Looks Like When No One’s Performing

Atsushi Nishijima, known as Jima, has photographed some of the biggest films of the last decade, capturing actors and crew members in between takes, sometimes at sensitive, stressful moments.

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Women Shaping Photography Today — 19 Artists to Discover

To celebrate Women’s History Month, we are highlighting a selection of women who inspire us through their photography and artistic vision.

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A Visual Journey Through 150 Years of the Legal Aid Society

A new display at the NY Historical traces the impact of the largest legal organization for low-income individuals in the United States.

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AIPAD’s The Photography Show returns with a new emphasis on Latin America

The Photography Show will once again bring together exhibitors from around the world at the Park Avenue Armory, offering historically significant and formally innovative work while continuing the fair’s longstanding commitment to deepening the collective understanding of photography’s history and spotlighting some of the most dynamic examples of contemporary experimentation.

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South African photographer Zanele Muholi: ‘My mother worked for a white family. I remember the pools I wasn’t allowed to swim in.’

The artist has spent three decades changing the face of African art, and has just won the prestigious Hasselblad award. But they say the win isn’t about them – it’s for under-represented people still living with the echoes of Apartheid.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the March 9

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

How Women Photographers Access Worlds Hidden From Men

National Geographic asked photographers to reflect on how gender influences their work.

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 Why This Photographer Loves Capturing Women at Their Fiercest

“Just look at me for a moment like you don’t like me.” It’s an unusual approach, but after more than a decade of photographing women, it’s one Suzanne Phoenix finds works well.

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28 Women Photographers Celebrate Women’s Day

In honor of International Women’s Day, we invited our talented photographers to showcase their images capturing the essence of womanhood and the spirit of IWD. Here are their remarkable submissions!

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Women Behind the Lens

International Women’s Day is a moment to celebrate the visionaries who shape how we see the world. This year, spotlighting female creators – Sony Artisans and Alpha Collective members – whose images, films, and ideas ignite action and open doors.

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Women Artists Take Centre Stage at Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2026

“In Interludes and Transitions” explores global movement—not only migration but also the flow of ideas, stories, languages, and traditions. The event features more than 65 artists from over 35 countries.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the March 2

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

The Jazz Pictures the FBI Silenced

Fearing for her safety, Lisette Model buried her photos of artists like Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong, but a new book reveals them to the world.

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David Driskell’s Gifts to Black Art

The artist and scholar spent decades championing Black artists through collecting, creating, and providing financial support through the Driskell Prize.

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A Tour Through Central Park’s Cruising Grounds

Arthur Tress’s new book, “The Ramble, NYC 1969,” provides a view into a world otherwise all but invisible to passersby.

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Power and fragility in the Leipzig Photobook Festival

A boutique event in an arty, post-industrial city, the Leipzig Photobook Festival takes a punky approach to publishing.

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“Dislocated Presences” Rethinks Street Photography

Training his camera on in-between moments and gestures, David Masoko’s tender take on street photography explores the tensions between visibility and privacy in an image-saturated world.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the February 23

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

How White Elites Drained Ancient Art of Its Color

The publication of “Chroma” represents an important shift by museums toward recognizing polychromy and its entanglement with white supremacy.

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The Inner Passage: An Untold Story of Black Resistance Along a Southern Waterway

An Untold Story of Black Resistance Along a Southern Waterway is a groundbreaking photographic and historical project by Charleston-based photographer Virginia McGee Richards. These waterways, built through immense labour and environmental transformation, later became covert routes to freedom.

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A Global Portrait of Generation Z

This year’s edition of Magnum Chronicles, an independent publication of collective storytelling, sees Magnum photographers working around the world to make a lasting portrait of the rising generation.

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10 Art Shows to See in DC This Spring

Nick Cave links landscapes and race, Mary Cassatt in Paris, Joan Danzinger’s sculpted universe, America through the eyes of its artists, and more.

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The First Exhibition in Italy to Focus on the HIV-AIDS Crisis

VIVONO brings together a range of artists to examine the campaigns and communities of an overlooked era, from the 80s and 90s.

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