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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more

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.

Read more


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.

Read more


‘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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more

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.

Read more


A Minneapolis Winter Like No Other


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

Read more


The Unruly Politics of Glitter


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

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more

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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more

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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more


William Eggleston’s Lonely South


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

Read more

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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more


 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.

Read more


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.

Read more

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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.”

Read more

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.

Read more 


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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more

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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more

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.

Read more


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

Learn more


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.

Read more


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.

Raed more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more

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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more

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.

Read more


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."

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more

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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more


25 Things We're Grateful for in the Art World


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

Read more

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”

Read more


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.

Read more


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.

Read more


How Did We Get Here?


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

Read more


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

Read more

Weekly Round Up of the Week of the November 17

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


Battling the Sea on the Outer Banks


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

Read more


Meet the women in Iraq using photography to create solidarity


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

Read more


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


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

Read more


Best Rising Photo-graphers of November 2025


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

Read more


In a risk-averse market, Paris Photo offers diversity


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

Read more

Weekly Round Up of the Week of the November 10

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


A Master of Fashion Photography Who Embraces Accidents


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

Learn more


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


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

Learn more


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


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

Learn more


10 Exhibitions to See in Upstate New York This November


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

Learn more


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


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

Learn more

Weekly Round Up of the Week of the November 3rd

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


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


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

Learn more


Storm–four takes on photography’s leading sustainability prize


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

Learn more


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


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

Learn more


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


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

Learn more


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


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

Learn more

Weekly Round Up of the Week of the October 27

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


Facets of truth as Photo Oxford opens


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

Read more

From the series 90 Miles © Michael Christopher Brown


Contemporary artists face off with decommissioned Confederate statues in Los Angeles


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

Read more

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


The Eaton Fire by William Karl Valentine


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

Read more

Untitled – Jane’ Village, Altadena © William Karl Valentine


Jane Lombard Looks Back at 30 Years of Art and Politics


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

Read more

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


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


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

Read more

© Diana Guerra

Weekly Round Up of the Week of the October 20

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


Artists Nationwide Unite Against the Trump Administration


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

Learn more


Photos Capture Millions Marching in Epic “No Kings” Protests


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

Learn more


The Art at the Heart of the Nationwide No Kings Protests


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

Learn more


Protest art draws from a powerful legacy of subversion and expression


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

Learn more


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


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

Learn more


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


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

Learn more

Weekly Round Up of the Week of the October 13

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


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


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

Learn more


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


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

Learn more


What does Paris Photo 2025 have in store?


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

Learn more


The Erotics of Coreen Simpson


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

Learn more


The Guts and Glory of “Indian Rodeo”


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

Learn more