Weekly Round Up of the Week of the September 29

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Round Up of the Week of the June 16

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


Iran’s Daughters of the Sea


Forough Alaei’s stunning photographs of a community of fisherwomen on a remote island in the Persian Gulf.

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Photo Basel June 2025


Photo Basel, Switzerland’s premier photography art fair, celebrates its 10th edition with 39 galleries from 15 countries, showcasing 450+ works by 150 artists. Newcomers include top galleries from Miami, Paris, Seoul, Sydney, and more.

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GETXOPHOTO International Image Festival


The Getxophoto International Image Festival 2025 runs from May 29 to June 22, exploring the theme “REC” and our compulsive urge to record. Curated by María Ptqk, this edition questions the future of visual memory in a world of infinite, manipulable images.

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Asian Diasporic Artists Ask How We Create Our Self-Images


A group exhibition focuses on the fragmented nature of identity and the circular loop of external and internal feedback involved in self-image creation.

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The Dark Side of Education


An exhibition at Amant reflects on the complexities of the system by which we teach and are taught, primarily through the lens of those who’ve suffered under it.

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Apocalypse Art Has Never Been More Relevant


A Paris exhibition traces artists’ obsession with the Apocalypse, from rare Medieval illuminated manuscripts to Blake, Kandinsky, and Kiki Smith.

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Round Up of the Week of the June 2

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


An Archive of Lesbian History Right in the Heart of Brooklyn


Nestled between brownstones near Prospect Park, the Lesbian Herstory Archives houses the world’s largest selection of materials by and for anyone who identifies with the word.

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8 Art Books to Read This Pride Month


Dig into new and upcoming tomes on the long lineage of LGBTQ+ art, from Beauford Delaney’s bond with James Baldwin to iconic lesbian photographer JEB and Alice Austen.

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Sebastião Salgado’s View of Humanity


The photojournalist documented some of the greatest human horrors of the past century, but he said, “I never, I never, photograph the misery”

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How American Photography Came Into Its Own


“The New Art” at the Met traces photography’s early evolution, highlighting how 19th-century pioneers transformed it into a creative and popular art form.

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Elizar Veerman: Challenging Stereotypes and Uniting Diasporas Through a Post-Colonial Lens


The Dutch-born Moluccan artist is interested in how class, rather than race, creates solidarity among immigrant communities through tender images of young men in Europe.

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Round Up of the Week of the May 19

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


The Everyday Dramas of Manhattan Rush Hour


In 1998, Matthew Salacuse took hundreds of pictures of New York commuters. Then he forgot about them for more than twenty years.

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“Queer Identity and African Roots”: Growing pains and joys with Ron Timehin


The photographer reflects on his journey from street musician to photographer, the emotional power of fog, and his latest project The Black Rainbow.

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Tasweer Photo Festival turns migration into aesthetic reality.


Tasweer Photo Festival spotlights West Asian and North African photographers, celebrating local stories beyond Western narratives, which depicts identity as a fluid process.

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Celebrating the messy richness of London life


London Lives gathers work by 30 artists to laud and emulate one of the most multicultural cities on earth, at the Photo London fair. Curator Francis Hodgson explains more.

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The winners of All About Photo Awards 2025


The All About Photo Awards 2025 has unveiled its 50 winning images, showcasing exceptional creativity and vision. In its 10th year, the contest received thousands of entries from over 40 countries, reaffirming its global reach and inclusivity.

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Round Up of the Week of the May 12

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


Anticipatory Obedience: The Precarious State of Trans Photography in the U.S.


Trans people have historically been on the margins – threatened by healthcare policies and ostracised by social norms. The arts have been a place to find communal solace, a space to express concerns safely whilst finding joy.

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A Bronze Tribute to Motherhood Rises in Prospect Park


The new sculpture by artist Molly Gochman channels abstraction to honor and memorialize caregivers of all forms.

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Reframing power and rethinking insurrection with Thaddé Comar


One degree removed from the media, the French-Swiss photographer is making work questioning the power of images

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TEFAF New York Is a Cabinet of Curiosities


From lesser-known Meret Oppenheim works to Anna Weyant’s jewel-box paintings, this over-the-top New York fair is rich with gems waiting to be discovered.

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A Late Feminist Sculptor Who Plumbed the History of Human Migration


Mary Ann Unger’s massive biomorphic artworks, now on view in New York City, are shockingly prescient and powerful now more than ever.

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Round Up of the Week of the May 5

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


A Thousand Small Stories Eileen Perrier’s humanist vision


“There’s always been this pull back to family,” Eileen Perrier says. “To people I know, or people who remind me of people I know.” Sitting with Perrier, it feels like each portrait begins and ends with the intimacy of kinship, tradition, and quiet sartorial rituals.

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“It Matters” by Jan Janssen


It Matters’ or ‘Pieces of Europe’ is a photography project begun in 2016, exploring universal human experiences love, play, growth, loss, and connection shared across people and places.

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“A Breathtaking” by Julien Chatelin's


A Breathtaking holds a peculiar power in its incompleteness—evoking both awe at the sublime and a sudden gasp at life’s fragility. The unfinished phrase becomes a lens into emotional terrain, suspending us between beauty and uncertainty.

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Chris Hunt’s Testament to community, migration and memory


The photographer tells BJP about Beeton Grove, a tender photobook documenting the rhythms of a neighbourhood, published by Bluecoat Press.

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LACMA Acquires Overlooked Old Female Master Self-Portrait


Virginia Vezzi's "Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria" is one of the 112 pieces acquired during the museum's annual Collectors Committee Weekend.

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Round Up of the Week of the April 28

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


Best Photos Celebrating Women – AAP Magazine 46 Winners


The 46th edition of AAP Magazine celebrates women who shape the photographic landscape as both subjects and visionaries, featuring artists of all genders united by a shared commitment to portraying womanhood in all its forms.

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Artists Push Back Against Unethical AI


In late 2022, artists discovered their work had been used without consent to train AI image generators, sparking a swift activist response. Within weeks, artists began organizing and questioning how to stop generative AI, and lawsuits soon followed.

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For Bertien van Manen, Photography Was All About the Heart


In her unvarnished portraits of strangers and family, the late photographer extolled the beauty and mysteries of everyday life.

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The Magic of Ballet Captured by a Master’s Camera


Alexey Brodovitch, the transformative art director of Harper’s Bazaar, made one book, “Ballet,” a photographic landmark that has been reprinted for its 80th anniversary.

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Clara Peeters’s Still Lifes Are Even Better Than the Real Thing


In her paintings, the 17th-century Dutch painter captured a pure, crystalline moment of time with unnerving verisimilitude.

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Round Up to the Week of the April 22

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


2025 World Press Photo of the Year revealed


World Press Photo today announces the Photo of the Year and two finalists of the 2025 World Press Photo Contest, showcasing a selection of the world’s best photojournalism and documentary photography.

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The week around the world in 20 pictures


The week around the world in 20 pictures. A visual journey through the past seven days, captured by the world’s leading photojournalists.

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Your Low-Stress Guide to Spring Art Fairs and Events in NYC


A quick and easy lowdown on what to expect at the more than a dozen fairs opening soon, plus programs and other happenings coinciding with the frenzy.

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How Photography Influenced Duro Olowu’s Life in Fashion


From album covers to Yves Saint Laurent, the London-based designer’s curiosity is limitless—and his deep knowledge of photography has informed his way of seeing the world.

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Pictures from Where the Senses Encounter the World


Cig Harvey’s “Emerald Drifters” is a rallying cry to exist in our bodies.

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