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Portraits of
Human Connection

A new exhibition at Pace Gallery spotlights Emmet Gowin’s family portraits, taken of his wife and her extended relatives across a thirty year period.

Photographic Encounters

Photo Elysée pays tribute to writer, photographer and traveller Ella Maillart with an exhibition that reflects on her time in Central Asia in the 1930s.

Zanele Muholi:
2026 Hasselblad Award

The artist is recognised for paving new ground by using the camera for visual activism, claiming visibility for Black queer people in South Africa.

Exhibitions and Events for
International Women’s Day 2026

We select 10 shows and events to attend this March, celebrating the remarkable contribution of women and girls to the field of contemporary art.

An Eye on the Landscape:
Sony World Photography Awards

Selecting five standout images from one of the most anticipated photography announcements of the year, the 2026 Professional competition of the SWPA.

Collective Empowerment

Getty Center spotlights the photographers who used the lens to celebrate a distinctly Black culture and community, and advance the struggle for civil rights.

Can Love Be A Photograph:
Forty Years of Inez & Vinoodh

Kunstmuseum Den Haag presents a major show celebrating the career of legendary photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.

Contemporary Portraiture
from the Aesthetica Art Prize

These five photographers from the 2025 Aesthetica Art Prize longlist create images that explore modern ideas of representation, visibility and identity.

Expansive Dialogues

Phoenix Art Museum presents a major exhibition of photographer Cara Romero, who shines a light on Indigenous culture, history and knowledge.

Julian Charrière:
Fragile Oceans

Julian Charrière’s impressive multimedia works, on display at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, combine art, nature and science to explore the world of water.

Nick Brandt:
Portraits of Precarity

The artist’s latest exhibition in Turin focuses on animals, environments and people devastated by climate change, photographed in striking tableaux.

Faithe Yang:
Migration & Belonging

Faithe Yang explores queer intimacy and cross-cultural exchange, reinterpreting everyday gestures and relaxed scenes from an “othering” perspective.

Women by Women:
PhotoVogue Festival 2026

The event returns to Milan for its 10th anniversary in March, presenting a programme dedicated to the many perspectives that womanhood can encompass.

Unseen Communities

A new exhibition spotlights the previously unseen work of Joyce Edwards, whose compelling portraits captured life for people in 1970s London squats.

Dana Lixenberg:
Quiet Observation

MEP’s exhibition weaves together a portrait of the USA, in which celebrities and lesser-known people are approached with equal levels of care and dignity.

Catherine Opie:
Redefining Portraiture

National Portrait Gallery presents a retrospective of Catherine Opie, an artist whose career has redefined the social and political potential of the medium.

Martin Parr:
An Inimitable Figure

Isaac Blease, curator at the Martin Parr Foundation, discusses the gallery’s latest exhibition, which honours the remarkable legacy of its founder.

Time on Earth

At Fruitmarket in Edinburgh, Ilana Halperin seeks to make the vastness of geological time visible through sculpture, drawing and analogue photography.

Five Images from the
Sony World Photography Awards

The shortlists for the Sony World Photography Award Open Competition has been announced, spanning architecture, portraiture, travel and nature.

Gordon Parks:
We Shall Not Be Moved

Alison Jacques Gallery presents a celebration of the Gordon Parks Foundation’s 20th anniversary, showcasing the artist’s socially conscious images.

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