Royal Photographic Society Monday December 1, 2025
The Royal Photographic Society Awards, the world’s longest-running photography competition, has announced the winners of its 2025 edition. The RPS Award Centenary Medal, the contest’s most prestigious prize, goes to British photographer Susan Derges, who is best known for her large-scale camera-less photograms of some of the shorelines and rivers of Devon and Dartmoor. Her more recent work has been concerned with recreated environments, notes the RPS. The Guardian has a portfolio of this year’s winners.
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DP Review Monday December 1, 2025
Director Christopher Nolan is no stranger to big undertakings—his films include Oppenheimer and Intersteller—but, notes DP Review, his latest project pushes even his own limits. In a recent interview, Nolan said that he’d shot more than two million feet of film for his upcoming project The Odyssey. Earlier this year, it was revealed that the movie, a re-telling of the Homer’s epic saga—would be the first commercial feature film to be shot entirely using Imax film cameras. Nolan reportedly convinced Imax to improve its cameras and workflow for the film.
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The New York Times Monday December 1, 2025
Lisette Model created an entire school of street photography with what The New York Times calls her “candid—and sometimes cruel” portraits of Americans, mostly taken in the 1940s and 50s. “Model sought to show humans with their defenses down — a lesson she passed on to her students, including Larry Fink and Diane Arbus," explains The Times. A new exhibition of her work at Vienna’s Albertina Museum suggests that Model’s approach was shaped in the European city where she was born and developed her artistic sensibility.
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CL Tampa Bay Monday December 1, 2025
More than two dozen people were arrested outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Miami on Nov. 22—among them well known Tampa photojournalist Dave Decker, who was covering a protest for several outlets, including Zuma Newswire and CL Tampa Bay. Decker, who was wearing press credentials around his neck, told CL Tampa Bay he received no warning before an officer made eye contact with him and soon felt cuffs on his hand as he was photographing officers arresting protesters.
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