Weekly Round Up of the Week of the October 5

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


Gerald Cyrus’s Magnificent Images of Black Life


Cyrus began consistently documenting New York City in the nineties. His images of Harlem—its streets, its jazz clubs, its dark, soulful nights evoke the place like nothing else.

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The Last Butterflies


Inside the secret cave settlements of the all-female Kurdish fighters of the Women’s Protection Forces (HPJ), solidarity, care and daily ritual sit alongside the stark reality of revolution.

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Take These Pictures and Run


Why Deana Lawson, one of photography’s greatest contemporary portraitists, suddenly found herself drawn to the “wall of shame.”

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Londoni Memoirs: A Bangladeshi Generation in Britain


Realising that the experiences of a whole generation of British-Bangladeshis will soon be lost – and motivated by celebrating the community in the midst of a rising far right – Seema Khalique built a multi-faceted piece of history now on show in London’s Bethnal Green

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The Quiet Rise


Turning the lens on his adopted country, Ashkan Shabani embarks on a long-term investigation into the rise and normalization of far-right extremism in Germany.

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