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Jacques Lowe, the Eye Behind the Kennedy Myth
Capturing Kennedy, by director Steele Burrow, revives the work of Jacques Lowe, a Holocaust survivor who became JFK’s personal photographer.
The Fullness of the Long-Distance Reader
The Reader gathers nineteen photographers' gazes upon a single gesture: that of a human being absorbed in the pages of a book.
Catherine Opie: Queer as Folk
The American photographer takes over the National Portrait Gallery in London with "To Be Seen," a thirty-year retrospective of LGBT community portraits where …
David Lynch: Last Show in Berlin
Before a major retrospective planned for autumn 2026 in Los Angeles, Berlin offers a final encounter with the visual art of David Lynch, …
Seydou Keïta: When Photography Becomes Tactile
In the courtyard of his home in Bamako, Seydou Keïta photographed an entire people in the process of reinventing itself. The Brooklyn Museum …
Olga Ignatovich, The Soviet War Photographer Whose Archive Fell Into Oblivion
Long before the invention of photography, archives have languished for years, sometimes decades, in closets and attics—neglected, misattributed, or overshadowed by more famous …

News

No Vacancy for Nostalgia

In Viewing Hours, Ben Geier roams the remnants of mid-century America — faded motels, darkened signs, spectral facades — and composes a chromatic requiem of unexpected tenderness.

Nick Brandt: Shared Fate

The exhibition “Nick Brandt: The Day May Break”, curated by Arianna Rinaldo at Gallerie d’Italia in Turin, Italy, brings together for the first time all four chapters of the photographer’s project, confronting the human and ecological cost of the climate crisis.

Stories

The Iranian Images That Refuse to Disappear

From erased protest footage to ultraviolet photographs, an Iranian photographer documents what remains of the Women, Life, Freedom uprising when images themselves become targets.

From the archives

Joel Meyerowitz, New York City, 1975 © Joel Meyerowitz. Photo © Tate Madeleine Buddo_3

Joel Meyerowitz: A Year of Consecration

For the past six decades, the American photographer Joel Meyerowitz has roamed the streets of the world, countrysides and beaches in search of life in blue, green, yellow and red. In the 1970s, his sense of modernism contributed to the acceptance of color photographs as works of art. In 2024, five major exhibitions celebrate his work.