The New York Times Thursday December 4, 2025
Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, a photographer who made witty and surreal tableaux that she captured with a pinhole camera — images evoking and transfiguring the romantic travel photography of the 19th century — died on Oct. 27, reports The New York Times. She was 82. Thorne-Thomsen’s postcard-sized pictures, which she called “environmental collages,” were captivating and uncanny, adds The Times: For one, she built a tiny pyramid on a beach and added silhouettes of palm trees. In another, a paper airplane that seems as big as the real thing “flies” over a photo of the Chicago skyline.
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The Nature Conservancy Thursday December 4, 2025
A photograph of divers freeing a humpback whale entangled by an underwater chain is the top winner of The Nature Conservancy’s 2025 Oceania Photo Contest. “We answered a call about an entangled humpback whale thrashing in distress,” says Australian photographer Miesa Grobbelaar, who took the pictures. “Arriving, we saw a heavy rusted chain cutting deep into her tail. Diving in, we worked carefully and silently to free her. When the chain finally snapped, she paused and looked at us, as if saying thanks. It was a powerful, humbling moment.”
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THE ART NEWSPAPER Thursday December 4, 2025
Miami collector Jorge M. Pérez has donated more than 100 photographic works to the Pérez Art Museum Miami (Pamm) by key Modern and contemporary artists such as Thomas Ruff, Ana Mendieta, Cindy Sherman and Isaac Julien. (The works given are currently on show at the museum in the exhibition "Language and Image: Conceptual and Performance-Based Photography from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection," notes The Art Newspaper.) Pérez and his wife Darlene are major players in the Miami art scene and have given at least $60 million to the Pérez Art Museum Miami, which was controversially renamed after Pérez donated $40 million in both cash and works to the Miami institution. Read the full Story >>
We Present Thursday December 4, 2025
This summer, British photographer Nadia Lee Cohen traveled to Ohio to visit family members there for the first time since she went as a child in 1999. The result is her new book Holy Ohio. “Ohio was my first introduction to anything overtly American outside of watching TV,” Cohen notes at We Present. Unlike Cohen's better known stylized creations, in which she sometimes portrays characters, her Ohio project is a work of non-fiction and, notes Dazed, is her most personal project yet.
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