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

Art marketanalysis

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

Prizesnews

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

Crime news

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

Prizesnews

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

Booksreview

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’

Booksreview

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

Bookspreview

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

Who was the real photographer behind the image that defined the Vietnam war?

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

Wolfgang Tillmans collection to be sold at Christie's

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

Trump tariffs and Zona Maco in Mexico, India Art Fair, and American photography at the Rijksmuseum—podcast

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

Book Clubfeature

Don McCullin on swapping war zones for museums and why his ‘printing days are over’

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

Filmreview

A day in the life of Peter Hujar in understated portrait of renowned photographer

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

Through the lens of Robert Frank, the Rijksmuseum presents a wide-angle view of the US

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

Peter Hujar, Gregg Bordowitz and Rotimi Fani-Kayode: art and the Aids struggle— podcast

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

Early Palestinian photographer's exhibition at Tel Aviv museum follows renewed study of her work

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

An insider's guide to Singapore Art Week: Emmeline Yong

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

In partnership withNational Arts Council Singapore for Singapore Art Week
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Cristina Mittermeier: ‘It is now or never’ to address climate change

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