ARTnews Tuesday December 30, 2025
The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) at Columbia College Chicago will host an exhibition in 2026 titled “If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground,” guest curated by leading photography scholar and Harvard professor Sarah Lewis. Opening September 3, the exhibition will feature works from MoCP’s permanent photo collection as a way to “visualize the life Emmett Till might have lived had he not been murdered in an act of racial violence in 1955,” notes Art News. Read the full Story >>
Associated Press Tuesday December 30, 2025
Over the past decade, facial recognition technology has gone from science fiction fantasy to worldwide reality — nowhere more so than in China, home to more security cameras than the rest of the world combined, notes Associated Press, which features a photo essay from photographers David Goldman and Ng Han Guan that visualizes the use of infrared technology in surveillance. Associated Press investigations have found that such surveillance systems in China were to a large degree designed and built by American companies. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Tuesday December 30, 2025
The Federal Communications Commission announced last week that it would add DJI to its “Covered List,” effectively banning all future DJI drones from the United States, notes PetaPixel. DJI says it remains committed to the U.S. market despite the ban. In a press release announcing the news, the FCC added that “criminals, hostile foreign actors, and terrorists” can use unmanned aircraft systems — drones — to “present new and serious threats to our homeland.” DIY Photography looks at options for drone users in the US. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday December 30, 2025
A master of surrealism, a young AI actress looking for an agent, and a World War I-era aviator took their place in photographic news during the final three months of 2025. In October, PPD spotlighted
an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum examining Man Ray's "radical reinvention" of art through the rayograph--his term for the camera-less images he made of ghostly objects. We also … Read the full Story >>
