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Our Selection of Photobooks to Gift This Christmas
Christmas is fast approaching, bringing with it the timeless search for the perfect gift — one that moves, surprises, or simply delights the …
Jamel Shabazz Returns to His Roots With “Prospect Park”
In the following essay, Jamel Shabazz takes us inside “My Oasis in Brooklyn,” where he honed his expansive photography practice over half a …
Invisible Sun: Fragile Beauty and Trauma
Published by Dust Collective, Invisible Sun by Amani Willett weaves together archives, AI, and intimate images to give form to a trauma dating …
Martin Parr, Satirical Chronicler of Everyday Life, Dies at 73
Acerbic observer of the ordinary, the British photographer died on 6 December 2025. A leading figure of contemporary documentary photography, he transformed the …
Forced IDs
A book by research-based visual artist Lukas Birk, MUG SHOT explores photographs preserved in historic archives. Images captured at the instant of an …
Richard Schroeder: “Making the Instant a Perfect Moment”
His name may mean nothing to you. Yet Richard Schroeder ranks among the greatest contemporary portrait photographers. Against the grain of flashy rock …

News

Black America as Told by Those Who Lived It

The exhibition “Black Photojournalism” on view at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, presents work by nearly 60 photographers chronicling historic events and daily life in the United States from the conclusion of World War II in 1945 to the presidential campaigns of 1984.

Lily Gavin, Silver Illusionist

Until December 13, Kearsey & Gold gallery in London is exhibiting ten black and white prints by the American photographer who crafts miniature worlds where scale wavers and the everyday tips into the marvelous.

Stories

Richard Schroeder: “Making the Instant a Perfect Moment”

His name may mean nothing to you. Yet Richard Schroeder ranks among the greatest contemporary portrait photographers. Against the grain of flashy rock imagery, his sophisticated black and white reveals the secret side of our icons.

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.