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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.

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.

Unseen Communities

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

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.

Salvatore Vitale: Art,
Activism and Social Reform

Photo Elysée presents the work of Salvatore Vitale, who explores the human cost behind the gig economy and how communities resist the system.

Photography, Power
and the Making of a Canon

The Museum of Contemporary Photography a marks its 50th anniversary, with a show that reflects on the shifting role of photography in modern society.

Documentary Photography in Focus

These documentary shows bring together legendary names and new talent, with exclusive exhibitions happening across Europe throughout 2026.

Kinship & Community

A new publication from Aperture spotlights the Texas African American Photography Archives, an record of 20th century American life for Black communities.

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