Photography

Photography

The 12th International Landscape Photography Awards has unveiled its 2025 winners, and the collection is nothing short of breathtaking. At the forefront is J. Fritz Rumpf from the United States, whose portfolio earned the top honor with images that radiate patience, precision, and passion. Strict contest rules ensured authenticity - every shot had to be captured by the photographer, with no AI or machine-made shortcuts, and all editing done by hand to enhance the natural drama.

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Undeniably, this body of work greets the viewer with the intimacy of a whispered secret and the force of an unexpected confession, a kind of aesthetic breathlessness that lingers in the mind long after the first encounter. In an instant, one realizes they are facing far more than a collection of paintingswhat stands before them is an excavation. Wright cuts through the collective sediment of imagespublic, private, ephemeral, sacredand exposes the psychological bedrock that binds them.

Wildlife photography already carries immense power, but in monochrome it transforms into something raw and dramatic. The 2024 Monochrome Photography Awards showcased 37 breathtaking wildlife shots, proving black-and-white can rival or even surpass color. From roaring lions to towering elephants, sharp-winged birds, and tiny creatures full of attitude, each image tells a vivid story through light and shadow. Stripped of color, every texture and detail stands out with striking clarity, deepening the mood and amplifying the drama.

In a penal system that legalises slavery, who is the real criminal? That question lies at the heart of Danny Lyon's landmark 1971 monograph, Conversations with the Dead, a masterwork of New Journalism chronicling crime and punishment in the United States. After his work in the Civil Rights Movement and with the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle club , Lyon gained unprecedented access to seven penitentiaries inside the Texas Department of Corrections over 14 months in 1967-68 to create a Dostoevskyian journey into the belly of the beast.

Norway has never looked as wet as in the photographs of the late Tom Sandberg. There are shots of drizzle and puddles, of asphalt slick with mizzle. A ripple of water appears to have a hole in it, a figure looms behind a rain-dappled window, a gutter glows after a downpour. Shot in either bold chiaroscuro or gentle orchestrations of greys, these are pictures with the power to make the everyday seem dreamlike.

In the first days of November, the Zum Festival took place - an annual event dedicated to contemporary photography that features talks, workshops, exhibitions, and a photobook fair at the Moreira Salles Institute. The festival is organised by Zum, the institute's outstanding semi-annual photography magazine coordinated by Thyago Nogueira, which has become my compass for what is most interesting and innovative in contemporary visual culture in Brazil and beyond.

"I pair a photograph of a Palestinian girl from the 1950s, displaced and waiting for food aid from UNRWA, with a looping GIF sent to me by one of my best friends in Gaza. It shows the last meal she has left, and her desperation to feed ten family members with what little remains," says Glorianna. Next to the image, a WhatsApp message reads '[12:36, Gaza/2025] Yousef: I'm okay but losing weight because of famine and starvation.'

Poised on a steel cable a quarter of a mile above Manhattan, a weather-beaten man in work dungarees reaches up to tighten a bolt. Below, though you hardly dare to look down, lies the Hudson River, the sprawling cityscape of New York and the US itself, rolling out on to the far horizon. If you fell from this rarefied spot, it would take about 11 seconds to hit the ground.

IN 2025, fascism is rapidly being consolidated in America. Along with gutting the rule of law, the military occupation of cities, unbridled violence and cruelty, the support of Palestinian genocide, overt racism, the suppression of dissent, and the shameless substitution of propaganda for truth, this US fascism relies on nationalism (including the division of society into those who belong as Americans and those who do not) and unquestioning patriotism.

Dictators like to move people around. Stalin, for instance. From the summer of 1941 through the fall of 1942, with the Russian front facing massive bombardment and Nazi troops on the ground, he decided to relocate civilians, and entire industries, to safer regions in the eastern Soviet Union. The Urals, Siberia, the middle Volga, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan eventually received sixteen million evacuees, perhaps the most ever moved across land by a single directive.

Fujifilm's unusual X Half elicited a lot of feelings from photographers when it came out earlier this year - from "That looks like so much fun," to "Wait, it costs how much?" Its $849.95 list price felt way too high for what is, by all accounts, a fun, unserious little point-and-shoot. But its $649 sale price? Much easier to stomach.

I was in Liverpool with my wife and friends for a weekend away, and Sunday was an arty day, Tooth says. We began at Walker Art Gallery, and ended with a Guinness in the Philharmonic Dining Rooms. In between we headed the two miles outside the city to the statues. Seeing the rusting figures, all facing the sea amid the moving sands, was stunning.

I'm drawn to the depth and strangeness of things,

For more than three decades, Liz Johnson Artur has photographed the people I'm with a characteristically modest expression that belies the radiance, intimacy and unshowy brilliance of her pictures, an extraordinary archive numbering thousands of images that celebrate beauty, resilience, community and resistance. Intimate and alive, her photographs often shot on the fly, in streets, nightclubs and living rooms pull you right into the moment, just before it disappears for good.

Tu grew up near the Jialing River and often swam there as a child. After studying in other cities in his youth, Tu returned to Chongqing for university. The Chongqing of today is different from the Chongqing of Tu's childhood and these images are an effort to record those changes-to tell the story of the riverside from his perspective and memory. While initially noting the distinct shift in urban architecture, Tu began to notice other things like increased congestion, environmental pollution, and poverty:

The Royal Photographic Society has announced its 2025 award recipients, and the lineup is nothing short of extraordinary. With these honorees, the RPS Awards spotlight creators who are shaping visual culture through both still and moving imagery.

Where some photos show familiar dusty green carpets and smoke stained curtains, the next presents another type of common American interior - a room stacked with rifles. Nadia's confronting approach is no better represented than through weaponry; one standout image shows a handsome knife decorated with an American flag grip - cultural history and the implication of violence all in one.

On Friday 14 November, amid the electric energy of Paris Photo 2025, Another Man and Tatras invited friends, collaborators and cultural luminaries to gather for an evening of cocktails at Dover Street Market Paris. The occasion marked the opening of a new exhibition showcasing work from Another Man Volume II, Issue IV, including Paul Kooiker's striking cover story created in collaboration with Tatras, alongside special commissions by JH Engström, Thomas Mailaender and Chardchakaj Waikawee.

The scale of the estate is felt in the sweeping view of its terrace blocks rising over the central green. Narrow balconies wrap the long facades, filled with red flowers, potted plants, and the everyday objects of residents. Below, a lawn dotted with picnics and a small playground softens the geometry, revealing the original intention of the architects to merge high-density housing with generous public space.

A few people were doing it at the time. Jean Pagliuso and Benno Friedman were doing it a little bit differently. I had a boyfriend, and we went on a cross-country trip. One of the places we went was Las Vegas. I loved the Las Vegas pictures, so I decided to put some color in them, and then in some other pictures, pictures I'd done of some cows.

A dual exhibition of works by New York-based artist Jesse Zuo and Los Angeles-based artist Sarah Cotton. The title of the show is based on the term for the adjustable resistance of knobs on a microscope. In referencing the delicate balance between concentration and strain, both artists can be seen as similarly navigating viewers' focus as they control the the amount of detail revealed or emphasized when it comes to their subjects' physique and emotional life.

Last Saturday, the gallery hosted an impromptu one-day preview of Marcus Brutus: En Focus, which formally opened November 13 at Harper's Chelsea 512. The day before, we had arranged the paintings along the floor for a special client, one of Marcus's most dedicated supporters. The works, still in their shadowboxes, were placed by size beneath our current exhibition by Iria Leino.

If you've ever given even half a damn about skateboarding, you recognize the Vaillancourt Fountain at Embarcadero as a silent witness to some of the coolest street skating in history. It is an iconic structure at an iconic plaza, just steps from an iconic waterfront. And it's about to be torn down. At the beginning of November, the San Francisco Arts Commission voted to dismantle the Vaillancourt. The vote followed a removal request from the San Francisco Parks Department, which cited health and safety concerns.

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. Matryoshka dolls are a Russian folk art tradition dating back over a century. These hollow wooden figurines, shaped like squat bowling pins and painted ornately, come in sets that nest neatly one inside another. On a recent visit to northeastern China, I learned that many nesting dolls are made in one small township here Yimianpo.