Photography

Remembering Sebastião Salgado, world builder, photographer of collective humanity and prophet of possibility

The Brazilian artist captured whole societies in his teeming, panoramic images, and used multimedia storytelling as environmental activism

Art Gallery of Ontario acquires more than 200 Peter Hujar photographs

The acquisition comes as the museum’s photography department prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary

US billionaire Howard Buffett and Ukrainian Railways team up to create ‘art train’ exploring war-time resilience

The train—which is due to travel across Ukraine—features photographs Buffett took during his 19 trips to the country between 2022 and 2025

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Nick Hedges, photographer who changed the way we see homelessness, has died aged 81

Hedges was known for his conviction that photography can be a powerful tool for social change, and for his campaigns with the homelessness charity Shelter

Italy’s leading archaeological museum uses young creatives’ press shots without payment

National Archaeological Museum of Naples accused of “marketing with unpaid photos”

Edward Burtynsky’s photographs convey the force of mankind’s reordering of the environment

A retrospective at the International Center of Photography in New York chronicles more than 40 years of the artist’s work

To help preserve her works, Cindy Sherman is offering to destroy and reprint old photographs

The new initiative aims to stabilise fragile media and could serve as a model for other artists

Newly opened Photography Museum of Seoul plans to become a ‘cultural anchor’ for the region

The new space in Dobong-gu district has been billed as country's first public museum dedicated to photography

London Gallery Weekend 2025: the best shows for photography lovers

This year's city-wide event is emphasising London as a location in which to experience non-traditional image-making

Amid a wave of political hostility, the Getty Center uses photography to tell stories of queer resistance and love

This double exhibition shows how LGBTQ+ people have used the camera to record their lives since the invention of photography

Sebastião Salgado, photographer of the planet’s margins, dies at 81

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

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Tentatively, Photo London's tenth edition moves away from traditional content and crowds

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

Philippa Kelly. With additional reporting by Mairi Alice Dun

Debate over author of ‘Napalm Girl’ image deepens as World Press Photo suspends attribution

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

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A personal story of loss in post-apartheid South Africa wins the 2025 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize

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

Metropolitan Museum receives 6,500 works from photography collector Artur Walther

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

For its 10th edition Photo London aims to look beyond the notorious ‘Kate Moss Index’

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

Five years on from bankruptcy, Unseen photo fair returns to Amsterdam

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

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Feminist art show vandalised at French photography centre

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

The Photography Show fair in New York sets new attendance record

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

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Palestinian photojournalist Samar Abu Elouf wins World Press Photo with image of young Gazan amputee

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

Steven Shearer: ‘I started to think of the internet as a kind of sarcophagus’

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

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Publication reveals there was more to photographer Weegee than his grim crime scene images

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

In pictures: spotlight on Asian artists at Art Basel Hong Kong

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

‘If necessary, I will shout at him!’: Richard Ansett's images of Grayson Perry go on show at Sotheby's

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

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Japan is opening its eyes to women photographers—and to the female gaze

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

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On a San Francisco roof, an artist’s work is birthed by the night sky

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

‘We will not be a traditional institution’: Foto Arsenal Wien takes up the mantle of Vienna’s radical art roots

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