Weekly Round Up of the Week of the June 1

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


The Expansive Joy of Mao Ishikawa


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

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Nancy Sheung, Whose Camera Captured Women on Their Own Terms


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

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Photographs that Document the Journey to Womanhood


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

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The Waves Came in Like Horses


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

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


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

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