Weekly Round Up of the Week of the March 6

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the February 16

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


All About Love From a Black Medieval Angel


A rare manuscript illustration casts Blackness not as a mirror of sin, but the ground from which love itself might take shape.

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Defying Trump’s Orders, NYC Re-Raises Pride Flag at Stonewall


Activists and officials returned the rainbow flag to Christopher Park after it was removed at the federal administration’s directive.

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‘He is a hero to me’: artist speaks out after Ukrainian athlete barred from Winter Olympics for commemorative helmet


Iryna Prots, who created the imagery on Vladyslav Heraskevych’s helmet—which honours Ukraine’s war dead—says she feels the decision to disqualify him violates the Olympic spirit.

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Photo Vogue Festival: Women by Women


The PhotoVogue Festival, the first conscious fashion photography festival to bridge ethics and aesthetics, returns to Milan for its tenth anniversary in 2026.

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In Florida Boys, Josh Aronson finds magic in the encounter between young men and nature


Travelling in Florida with his sitters, the photographer builds Arcadian portraits that recast masculinity as fluid, gentle, and communal.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the February 9

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


Seydou Keïta Captured a Nation on the Cusp of Independence


At the Brooklyn Museum, the Malian photographer’s elaborately patterned studio portraits picture a society in flux.

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A Minneapolis Winter Like No Other


A new series of photographs documents residents’ evolving resistance to the surge of ICE agents in their city.

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The Unruly Politics of Glitter


In the visual arts, glitter has been used to make the presence of such marginalized identities impossible to overlook.

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Unmapping the image: Elsa Leydier distorts photography’s authority


The French-born artist unmakes images, intervening in their materiality to expose racist, sexist, and capitalist tropes and challenge dominant Western aesthetics – all while questioning her own gaze.

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International Photography Contest Celebrating Women’s Strength and Beauty


Since the earliest days of photography, women have played a vital role in shaping visual culture—not only as subjects, but as authors of powerful narratives that define eras, challenge norms, and expand artistic boundaries.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the February 2

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


Beyond the Silence: Fight and Adaption


Beyond the Silence is a collaborative photography project by Magnum Photos and Odesa Photo Days Festival that brings together international photographers to explore themes of occupation, censorship, colonialism, and resistance. Initiated after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it uses visual storytelling to highlight shared global struggles and human responses to crisis.

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Textile Alchemy: Nicolás Garrido and letting materials speak


Through light leaks, natural dyes and ancestral Andean knowledge, the artist’s Alquimia Textil becomes a meditation on chance, craft and the quiet resistance embedded in traditional textile practices.

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Ania Moussawel Wins Oscar Cintas Photography Fellowship


Last week, Cuban-Lebanese American artist and educator Ania Moussawel was awarded the highly prestigious Photography Fellowship from the Oscar Cintas Foundation. Her work centers on memory, family, ritual, and personal histories, captured through intimate photographic and video narratives.

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UNESCO and Onewater Announce Winners of the Global Walk of Water Photography Contest


UNESCO’s World Water Assessment Programme and Onewater have announced the winners of the Global Walk of Water Photography Contest, showcasing powerful visual stories about water, identity, and human connection from photographers in 114 countries.

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What happens to the art market when humanity stops mattering?


The article argues that if wealth and power become the dominant drivers of society, the traditional cultural value of art risks being sidelined in favor of commodified “proven brands,” reducing art to a luxury asset rather than a meaningful expression of humanity.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the January 26

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


Photos of Minneapolis Protests As City Erupts in Anger Over Killing By Federal Agent


Minutes after federal agents killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday morning, the second fatal shooting by immigration authorities in the city in as many weeks, dozens of protesters arrived at the scene.

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Best Modern Photographers of January 2026


Each month, All About Photo curates a selection of modern photographers whose work stands out for its vision, creativity, and storytelling. Below are our featured photographers for January 2026.

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Singapore Art Week puts women artists from the region to the fore


A new book and a major exhibition are highlighting contemporary female artists from Singapore, the Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries.

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The Gordon Parks Foundation Celebrates 20 Years


The Gordon Parks Foundation marks its 20th anniversary with a yearlong program of exhibitions, publications, fellowships, and events celebrating how Parks’ legacy continues to shape contemporary art. Founded in 2006, the Foundation supports artists across disciplines, reflecting Parks’ belief in art as a force for social change.

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William Eggleston’s Lonely South


In his show “The Last Dyes,” the photographer presents a world that feels fictional but fact-based.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the January 19

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


An Indigenous Community’s Spiritual Haunting


In “Jaidë,” or “House of Spirits,” the Colombian photographer Santiago Mesa documents a remote people facing a rash of youth suicides.

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John Wilson’s Relentlessly Humane Vision of Black Life


He portrayed the gamut of the Black experience, making visible a sense of deep isolation as well as pride, family, and community.

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Brooklyn Academy of Music Celebrates MLK Day Through Art, Film, and Music


BAM's Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is a free event series that remembers the momentous civil rights leader and recognizes the contributions of historic and contemporary Black figures.

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 Hand-Printed Photography as Inheritance: Jurga Ramonaite on Arctic Landscapes and Memory-Keeping


In Beneath the Surface Skin, chemigrams made with Arctic seawater and glacial portraits become letters across loss.

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The Portrait of Britain


With Portrait of Britain Vol. 8, photography moves beyond galleries into everyday public spaces across the UK, from high streets to bus shelters. Featuring 100 winning portraits, it presents a complex, intimate, and deeply human portrait of the nation today.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the January 12

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


Artists React to the ICE Shooting of Renee Nicole Good


Online and on the streets, protesters are expressing their rage and grief through art.

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Lagos is a Vortex of energy.


In a recent book, “Èkó,” the photographer Ollie Babajide Tikare captures the messiness and hope of the Nigerian city.

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Taboos and the trans community are at the heart of Ditte Haarløv Johnsen’s photographic diary from Mozambique


Published by Disko Bay, the 25-year-long project sits at the intersection of resolution and conclusion with striking honesty.

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Art News pick of the shows to see in the world's great art cities in 2026


The exhibitions to visit in London, New York, Tokyo, Paris, and Madrid.

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Storm over closure of South Africa’s much-loved Irma Stern Museum


The closure last year of the Cape Town museum has “left people angry and deeply suspicious.”

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the 5 January

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


The MoMA considers “The Idea of Africa” in an expansive new show


How did portraiture shape a vision of pan-African possibility? A new show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art explores the ways images of everyday citizens informed political ideology.

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By Her Hand by Ellen Konar & Steve Goldband


A Holocaust survivor reclaimed dignity through a blouse sewn from salvaged fabric, a garment that carried her from liberation to a new life in America. By Her Hand weaves photographs, documents, and maps around that blouse to honor resilience, memory, and the enduring strength of human life amid atrocity.

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The most exciting museum openings in 2026


From the idyllic Slovenian countryside to the heart of Los Angeles, here are ten of the biggest new and expanded museums opening this year.

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Art World Insiders Make Their New Year’s Predictions for 2026


Despite the instability of 2025, the art world showed signs of resilience and renewal toward the year’s end.
With major fairs expanding to the Gulf and landmark biennials returning, 2026 promises a revealing and potentially revitalizing chapter for the global art market.

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In 2026, Democracy Needs Museums


As the United States marks its 250th, institutions must resist the pull to simply commemorate and instead communicate the relevance of history.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the December 29

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


TIME’s Top 10 Photos of 2025


In a world flooded with images, even powerful photographs can be easily overlooked. To counter this, TIME’s photo department selects ten images each year that made us pause and look deeper—exploring not just their impact, but the stories, emotions, and lived experiences of the photographers behind the camera.

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Displacement and Migration through the Magnum Archive


On the 75th anniversary of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), we take a look at Magnum's coverage of refugee and displacement crises around the world, from the 1940s to the present day.

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MoMA explores how African studio portraits offered a new vision of freedom


The show proposes that West and Central African photographers may have helped shape Black identities across the globe.

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10 Artworks That Spoke Truth to Power in 2025


From public murals to museum walls, artists mobilized their practices to call out injustices, expose wrongdoing, and advocate for a better world.

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Best Rising Photographers of December 2025


Best Rising Photographers of December 2025 highlights a curated group of emerging image-makers redefining contemporary photography. Spanning street, travel, portraiture, documentary, and fine art, the selection showcases distinct voices with strong visual identities and growing international presence.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the December 22

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


Tyler Mitchell’s Art-Historical Mood Board


The thirty-year-old star photographer became famous for his reference-rich images of Black beauty, but his strongest work suggests a tender eye for imperfection.

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An exhibition on the legacy of immigrant portraiture at Marseille’s Studio Rex comes to Paris


Images of North African and African migrants to France from Ne M’oublie Pas resist forgetting in a new edition of the show – BJP speaks to curator Jean-Marie Donat

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The Best Art Shows Around the World in 2025


Nan Goldin’s fearless photos, Noah Davis’s enchantments of ordinary life, Stan Douglas’s historical visions, and Yoko Ono’s musical mind were just some of our favorites.

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Davide Sorrenti’s work journals uncover a world of troubling beauty


This is where the late photographer collected ideas, drawings, writing, tear and contact sheets, test prints, and flyers – here, Sorrenti’s mother elaborates on the new IDEA publication.

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2025 Comedy Wild Life Photo Awards


From a red-throated loon landing on water, to good and bad hair days and an airborne squirrel, here is a selection of the finalists in this year’s Nikon Comedy Wildlife awards.

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From Wicked to KPop Demon Hunters, see the Concept Art Awards 2025 winners


The Concept Art Awards 2025 celebrate the creatives who pushed the craft forward this year, honoring standout work across live action, animation, games, and emerging talent.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the December 15

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


South Sudan’s Worsening Humanitarian Crisis


In September 2025, Alex Majoli travelled to South Sudan with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to document one of the world’s longest humanitarian crises — often overlooked by the international community.

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TIME’s Top 100 Photos of 2025


Photographs resonate most when they center on people, whose faces carry fear, grief, and humanity in ways machines cannot. TIME’s Top 100 images of 2025 capture a world where human presence stands in stark contrast to an increasingly impersonal future.

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Embrace Unusual Conditions for Compelling Photographs


The most compelling photos are those that break away from the mundane. Therefore, you can achieve better results by photographing at atypical times of day and weather conditions. Here are some hints for doing that and avoiding some risks.

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Teen Rebellion Immortalized, Through the Eyes of Chris Steele-Perkins


The late British photographer was drawn to outsider subcultures, among them the working-class youths known as Teds.

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Jerwood/Photoworks Award Winners


Photoworks has announced Roman Manfredi and Sayuri Ichida as recipients of the fifth Jerwood/Photoworks Awards. Their expanded photography projects will be presented as two solo exhibitions combining still and moving image, sound, and installation.

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Weekly Round of the Week of the December 8th

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


A Greenlandic Photographer’s Tender Portraits of Daily Life


Inuuteq Storch set out to rediscover Inuit culture that was suppressed by Danish colonizers, by finding its traces in the everyday.

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Your 2025 Art World Wrapped


Hyperallergic's year in art, remembering architect Frank Gehry, and Tewa Pueblo artists on the myth of "O'Keeffe Country."

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Martin Parr and the legacy that shaped contemporary photography


Martin Parr, one of the most influential documentary photographers of his generation, passed away on December 6, 2025, at age 73. Known for transforming everyday moments into vivid, satirical studies of modern life, he leaves behind a legacy that shaped global photographic culture for over five decades.

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From the archive | Martin Parr's Miami


With Art Basel week in full swing, they sent the Magnum photographer on a tour of the city’s fairs and museums to see what caught his eye.

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The Indigenous Histories That Georgia O’Keeffe Forgot


An exhibition at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum includes works by Tewa Pueblo artists, helping dispel the problematic “O’Keeffe Country” narrative.

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Niyū Yūrk: The Big Apple seen through the lens of its earliest Middle Eastern immigrants


Curator Hiba Abid stresses the importance of rectifying inaccurately archived photographic materials about MENA communities to resist erasure or oversimplification.

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Weekly Round of the Week of the December 1st

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


“Broken promises”: Jono Terry investigates a ‘colonial hangover’ at Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe


The Zimbabwean-born, London-based artist problematises his memories of childhood, speaking through his self-published book, They Still Owe Him a Boat.

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A vocabulary of touch: exhibition of sculpture by blind and partially blind artists opens in Leeds


The Henry Moore Institute's new show, ‘Beyond the Visual’, unpacks the value of the haptic and how perception involves all the senses.

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Jennifer Packer Confronts Grief Through Paintings That Cut Deep


The painter mines an iconographical language of grief through delicate, translucent paintings imbued with a sense of intimacy and intensity.

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The 25 winners of AAP Magazine 52: Street


From bustling city streets to quiet sidewalks around the world, the 25 winning photographers of AAP Magazine 52: Street, representing 15 countries across 5 continents, highlight the vibrant diversity and creative vision of contemporary street photography.

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25 Things We're Grateful for in the Art World


Here’s to celebrating what brings us joy, great and small.

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Weekly Round Up of the Week of the November 24

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


Nine Central Saint Martins students and alumni reshape the forms and purposes of fashion photography


In the Lightboxes at King’s Cross, Violet Conroy curates imagery which presents fashion as less a materialistic choice and more about “an attitude, a mood”

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Ayan Abdi’s contemporary portrait of kinship across the Global African Diaspora


The Somali-Norwegian photographer’s project Family in Focus was developed across several countries and continents, asking what a family constitutes.

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10 Chinese Photographers You Should Know


This article explores how photography first arrived in China, spread across the country, and became part of its cultural history. All About Photo builds on that legacy by highlighting 10 contemporary Chinese photographers shaping the nation’s visual landscape today.

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How Did We Get Here?


We’re in a time where the act of imagining a better world is considered a threat to society.

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Penn Museum opens Native North America Gallery after two-year overhaul


The Philadelphia museum, located on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, has completely rethought the 2,000 sq.-ft gallery in collaboration with eight Indigenous curators

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