VII Tuesday October 21, 2025
Sara Terry, an award-winning documentary photographer and filmmaker whose work explored reconciliation, resilience, and community in the aftermath of conflict, died on October 13, at age 70. A 2012 Guggenheim Fellow, Terry’s long-term work “Forgiveness and Conflict: Lesson from Africa” inspired her documentary Fambul Tok (2011), notes the VII agency. Her landmark project “Aftermath: Bosnia’s Long Road to Peace” led her to found The Aftermath Project in 2003, which supports work by photographers exploring the human aftermath of conflict. See also: One In Six.
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Nikon Small World Tuesday October 21, 2025
Spores and slime mold are more photogenic than you might think, notes The Guardian, which features winners of the 2025 Nikon Small World photo micrography competition. The top prize goes to Zhang You, a member of the Entomological Society of China and the Entomological Society of Yunnan Province, for his image of a rice weevil, an agricultural pest, on a grain of rice. To create the image, he captured over 100 stacked images using a 5x microscope objective lens on a medium-format camera.
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Eye of Photography Tuesday October 21, 2025
The Rencontres d’Arles photography festival has announced the launch of the 2026 Discovery Award Louis Roederer Foundation, which aims to showcase emerging art and artists. Since 2021, the Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award has worked with organizations that foster emerging artists—community spaces, independent exhibition sites, and more — to find work by new talents, notes The Eye of Photography. These organizations are invited to propose an exhibition project by an artist they support whose work has recently been discovered or deserves to be seen by an international audience. Go here for more information. Deadline: Dec. 1.
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ARTnews Tuesday October 21, 2025
Now celebrated as the father of African photography, Seydou Keïta (ca. 1921–2001) operated a busy studio in Bamako, Mali (until 1960, French Sudan), between 1948 and 1963. It was a time of radical transformation across Africa, notes Art News, which spotlights five important works by the photographer drawn from the new exhibition “Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens” at the Brooklyn Museum (through March 8, 2026). The New York Times has more on how Keïta captured a cross-section of Malian society in his studio.
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