Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, athletes and cultural figures from the country have found themselves locked out of a range of international contests and events. Now Leica has removed Russian photographer Valery Melnikov from the shortlist of the 2026 Leica Oskar Barnack Award. Melnikov's nominated series "Mariupol: Open Wounds" focuses on how Russia's invasion devastated the Ukrainian city and its people. Critics say the work fails to acknowledge Russia's responsibility for Mariupol's s fate. The move, noted Digital Camera World, spotlights a difficult issue for photojournalism.

Aperture has always been a magazine first, a book publisher second, and only in recent decades a place with a bookstore and gallery space that people could walk into. During the pandemic lockdown, the doors to that space, in Chelsea, closed. Next month, those doors will reopen, at 380 Columbus Avenue, across from the American Museum of Natural History. The Upper West Side is an odd and interesting choice, if choice is even the word for a decision this momentous. Aperture has historically exis...