The Brazilian documentarian was internationally known for his panoramic photographs of humanity surviving on the edge and for his work as a campaigning environmentalist

New fair director Sophie Parker's plan to “reward galleries that take risks” was seen in action

The decision follows a report from Associated Press and a documentary calling into question the long-held belief that photographer Nick Ut took the shot

The Johannesburg-based Magnum Photos member Lindokuhle Sobekwa claimed contemporary photography's biggest prize in London last night

The promised gift from Walther and the Walther Family Foundation includes photographs, albums and time-based works by artists including Malick Sibidé, Ai Weiwei, Thomas Struth, Stephen Shore and others

Opening later this week with new leadership, the photography fair is determined to move away from the clichés of supermodels, artful murmurations of birds and majestic beasts

Acquired by Art Rotterdam in 2020, Unseen's new director says transparency and consistency have been key to rebuilding the fair

Our round-up of the latest art publications

In addition to destroying more than 30 works by the artist Kamille Lévêque Jégo, one or more vandals tagged the gallery walls with phalluses and other ‘immature’ imagery

Zélie Hallosserie, who documents the stories of migrants in Calais, receives $10,000

Nearly 15,000 visitors attended the fair last week, organisers said

The exhibition, entitled Pairs Skating, is due to open later today at the Yermilov Centre

The subject of the photograph taken for “The New York Times” is nine-year-old Mahmoud Ajjour, who lost both his arms in an Israeli attack on Gaza a year ago

Inspired by religious figuration, the Canadian artist’s latest series uses images of people sourced online that he has enlarged to create painterly canvases exploring the vulnerability and universality of sleep

A comprehensive overview explores the “paradox” of Weegee’s work and how he went from taking tabloid photos of murder to making distorted celebrity portraits

Art Basel’s director of fairs, Vincenzo Bellis, on his pick of the fair’s curated Insights section

The selling exhibition will open in London on 28 March, alongside Perry's Wallace Collection show, ‘Delusions of Grandeur’

Denied recognition and even credit for their work until recent times, Japan’s women photographers are challenging and subverting traditional assumptions about the female body

Ala Ebtekar’s new cyanotypes for Arion Press were exposed using moon and starlight during a partial lunar eclipse

The new exhibition space, Austria’s first centre for photographic images and lens-based media, will open on 21 March

A recent documentary claimed that a local freelancer, not photographer Nick Ut, took the famous shot of a naked Vietnamese girl. Ut—and his legal team—say different

The 15 works, on the market for the first time since they were bought by an anonymous collector, will be on show this week before being sold in March

How have recent US executive orders affected the mood on the ground at the leading Mexican fair? Plus a report from India Art Fair as it opens amid state elections, plus a chat about one of the earliest portrait photographs

The revered photojournalist has turned his focus to ancient statues for a new photography book

The new film “Peter Hujar’s Day”, which recently premiered at Sundance, is based on the transcript of a 1974 conversation between Hujar and his friend Linda Rosenkrantz

The Amsterdam museum’s sweeping survey will look beyond the usual suspects to explore ways that photography has both infiltrated and reflected society

A special episode on three artists dealing with the crisis in different ways

Karimeh Abbud, one of the earliest female Palestinian photographers, comes into greater focus in her biggest show to date in Israel

The co-founder and director of Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film on her upcoming exhibitions and the best place to see the city's skyline

This pioneer in conservation photography combines her passion and skill to capture our planet’s fragility