Irish photographer Seamus Murphy's journey through Vladimir Putin's Russia began, he notes, with his trip through Jack Kerouac's America. In 2007, Murphy, who'd been covering the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, began a tour across the US to mark the 50th anniversary of Kerouac's book "On the Road"-- travels that led him to America's post-industrial rust belt cities. Not long after he set out … Read the full Story >>
Defying the erasure of California Indian peoples, Cara Romero, an enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, sees her work as “painting with the light of photography.” Her work, notes Art News, fuses ancestral memory with the immediacy of pop culture, rendering it "mythic, futuristic, and, crucially, still unfinished.” Romero is having the greatest exposure of her career, with work in 10-plus exhibitions since last fall, including “Smoke in Our Hair: Native Memory and Unsettled Time” at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York, through August 3. Read the full Story >>
With a new retrospective book, Lifeworks in Photography, 1972-2023, and a recent National Medal of Arts crowning his many honors, Clyde Butcher’s legacy is sealed, notes Florida-based news site Observer. But at a time when many octogenarians might be content to play with their grandchildren, Butcher, known for his images of Florida’s landscape, has been galvanized by Trump administration plans to build a migrant detention facility nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” adjacent to Everglades National Park. Read the full Story >>
The 2025 edition of the Arles photography festival gets underway today, with a special presentation from Nan Goldin and a tribute to the late Sebastiao Salgado on July 8, along with the presentation of the 2025 book awards. The Eye of Photography has a special edition devoted to the festival, with a look at some of the event’s featured exhibitions, including “My Eyes, Patient Objects – MYOP, 20 Years of a Moving History,” marking the 20th anniversary of the French photography collective. Read the full Story >>
