Photography

Comment | Sunil Gupta’s intimate photographs show how art and activism can work together

The images in the British-Indian artist’s retrospective at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge, England, are both tender and powerful

Estorick Collection celebrates trailblazing avant-garde photography duo from Trieste

The London institution’s forthcoming exhibition reveals the life and work of the Wulz sisters from northern Italy, who began taking photographs in the 1920s

An exhibition imagines Emmett Till’s life if it hadn’t been brutally cut short

“If Emmett Till Lived”, curated by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, draws from the collection of Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Photography to visualise a possible narrative of Till’s life had he not been murdered at age 14

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‘It was a calling’: 25 years after the 11 September attacks, Joel Meyerowitz reflects on his photos of Ground Zero

The legendary photographer spent nine months documenting the cleanup in Lower Manhattan to complete his series “Aftermath”, which is currently on view at Florida’s NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale

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Why I launched a new photobook imprint—veteran bookseller and publisher reveals next career move

Foxed Editions co-founded by Rudi Thoemmes focuses on overlooked parts of photographic history

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Photographer Melonie Bennett’s debut monograph captures the ‘stupendousness‘ of family life

The photobook captures two decades of often hilarious, sometimes tragic moments

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Music, Fashion, Film—Photography? Charli xcx image acquired by London's National Portrait Gallery

The portrait of the pop star, who released her latest album earlier this month, can be found in the museum's History Makers space

Former Nederlands Fotomuseum director awarded €400,000 after unfair dismissal ruling

A judge in Rotterdam has ruled that the institution must compensate Birgit Donker after failing to substantiate claims she created an "unsafe" working environment

Lee Miller and Roland Penrose's Sussex home handed over to newly formed charity

The farmhouse, which was visited by artists including Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Dorothea Tanning, was previously run by the pair’s family as a private company

Zooming in on the Dutch street photographer Ed van der Elsken

The artist chronicled Amsterdam life in the 1970s

Paris exhibition explores the vanishing worlds of photographer Madeleine de Sinéty

Survey at the Jeu de Paume shows the prolific photographer's images of rural life and urban gentrification in France and the US

New photography museum in Cincinnati foregrounds the medium’s democratic power

The new FotoFocus Center gives the city’s popular photography biennial a permanent presence and an inclusive mandate

Photographs of Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson’s shared studio go on show in London

Black-and-white images taken by Paul Laib are being exhibited at the Courtauld Gallery

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Comment | Furore over ‘colourised’ Ansel Adams photo reflects problems with the art market, not AI

The issues raised by the dealer James Danziger’s AI-generated photo are profoundly and irrevocably human

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts gifted collection of nearly 2,000 photographs

The gift, from the foundation established by the late collector Howard Stein and his wife Janet, boosts the museum’s photography holdings as it plans to open new galleries dedicated to the medium in 2027

Bad moon rising: AI debate erupts over ‘colourised’ version of a classic Ansel Adams photo

The photographer’s estate has accused the dealer James Danziger of leveraging an unauthorised AI-generated piece to push a commercial venture to colourise other artists' works

Flash back: The artists creating new stories from archival photos

Museum Rietberg exhibition showcases more than a dozen artists from around the world whose work reimagines mostly colonial-era images

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New Richard Avedon documentary chronicles how he shaped the evolution of photography

Ron Howard's documentary, which recently premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, is enjoyable even as it treads well-worn ground and repeats familiar anecdotes

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In a new home, Photo London gets down to business

The navigable Olympia in west London is a welcome change from Somerset House for the fair's exhibitors hoping to maximise exposure and get deals done

Photographer Giles Duley brings images of historic and current wars into dialogue in Manhattan pop-up show

For a pop-up exhibition in a penthouse apartment high above Midtown, the British photographer is showing archival materials, his own photos and three room-sized installations

Rene Matić wins 2026 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize

One of the youngest winners, Matić is also the first British recipient of the £30,000 prize in more than a decade

Sophie Rivera's first survey focuses on experimentation

The show at El Museo del Barrio seeks to introduce audiences to a more playful and exploratory side of her work

Pioneering British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron honoured with a blue plaque in London

Descendants of the 19th-century photographer, who captured Tennyson and Darwin, celebrated her life and work at the unveiling

New Zealand's Venice Biennale pavilion explores the secret life of birds

Fiona Pardington is showing her towering portraits of the country's endangered and extinct bird life

Rare early photographs reveal lost sites featured in Van Gogh’s paintings

Photographic albums assembled by the artist’s early biographer Gustave Coquiot provide a glimpse into his Arles scenes

The Photography Show fair’s 45th edition explores medium’s full history from its origins to AI

Aipad’s annual fair brings nearly 80 exhibitors to the Park Avenue Armory, seeking to be both an approachable entrypoint for new collectors and a place of discovery for connoisseurs

US National Gallery of Art gifted more than 1,200 Mitch Epstein photographs

The career-spanning donation from the American photographer and his wife, Susan Bell, makes the Washington, DC, museum the leading institutional home for Epstein’s work

Berlin exhibition focuses in on women photographers of the Bauhaus

“New Woman, New Vision” explores lesser-known works from the Bauhaus archive

Comment | Catherine Opie shows us that in dark times, looking for joy can be radical

The artist's new show at the National Portrait Gallery offers plenty of reasons to be cheerful