Aperture Thursday December 18, 2025
Celebrating its 20th year, the Aperture Portfolio Prize is an annual international competition that spotlights new talent in contemporary photography. The prize is open exclusively to Aperture magazine print subscribers. The first-prize winner will be published in Aperture magazine and receive a $5,000 cash prize along with a $1,000 gift card to shop for gear at mpb.com. The four artists chosen for the shortlist each receive a $1,000 cash prize and an editorial feature on aperture.org. Deadline: Jan. 9, 2026. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday December 18, 2025
If you're going to a glitzy Hollywood party soon, beware: The only thing anyone in Tinseltown can talk is AI, noted Vanity Fair magazine recently. Some look upon the technology with dismay. Others,
like "Black Swan" director Darren Aronofsky, "have embraced AI almost as a kind of realpolitik," added the magazine. It may be a matter of survival: Visual effects have largely been farmed … Read the full Story >>
ARTnews Wednesday December 17, 2025
Franco Vaccari, an Italian conceptual artist whose experiments with photography expanded the medium’s possibilities, died on Dec.12 at 89, notes Art News. His death comes just four months before his work was due to be surveyed in a retrospective held at Museion in Bolzano, Italy. Vaccari often relied on viewer participation for the completion of his pieces, which he typically called “esposizioni in tempo reale,” or “exhibitions in real time.” He became one of the most famous Italian artists, figuring in two more editions of the Venice Biennale, adds AN. Read the full Story >>
The Photographers’ Gallery Wednesday December 17, 2025
“In an era where cameras fire off 30 frames per second and computational photography happens in milliseconds,” notes Digital Camera World, “Michael Kenna still works the way he did in 1987: one frame, one night, sometimes ten hours of exposure.” His images of show-covered landscapes, on view at The Photographers’ Gallery in London through Jan. 25, 2036, is a sensory experience. The show’s title, “Shin Shin,” is a Japanese onomatopoeia that describes the quietness or silence of falling snow.
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