By
David Schonauer Friday January 23, 2026
Minneapolis-based photographer John Abernathy was covering protests at the city's Whipple Federal building when, as he noted later at Instagram, he was "tackled by ice agents and surrounded by about
50 border police. Just for taking photos." Forced to the ground, Abernathy managed to pass off his Leica to another photographer "to make sure it wouldn't be confiscated." Getty Images photographer
Pierre Lavie captured … Read the full Story >>
ARTnews Thursday January 22, 2026
Artists and other creative people have been deeply concerned about the way that their work has been hoovered up by tech companies to fuel artificial intelligence–powered image and text generators. But a University of Alaska Fairbanks undergraduate has taken his protest against AI to another level, notes Art News. Graham Granger, a student in the school’s film and performing arts program, came upon some AI-generated art by MFA student Nick Dwyer and promptly ate it. Read the full Story >>
The Guardian Thursday January 22, 2026
Swiss photographer René Groebli made portraits of Charlie Chaplin and Walt Disney and pioneered new modes of photography. But, notes The Guardian, it was his tender, erotic pictures taken in a Paris hotel room in the 1950s that really caused a stir. Groebli and his wife, Rita Dürmüller, spent their honeymoon time in Paris cocooned in their room producing a series of photographs – sensual, intimate, enigmatic – that would first shock then beguile viewers, works that can now be seen in an exhibition in Zurich (through Feb. 28). Read the full Story >>
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Thursday January 22, 2026
Photographer and National Geographic Explorer Carlton Ward Jr. will receive the National Geographic Society’s 2026 Eliza Scidmore Award for Outstanding Storytelling, “recognizing a career defined by the use of visual narratives to illuminate threatened landscapes and wildlife and translate them into pivotal conservation outcomes.” Through “his tireless work as founder of the Florida Wildlife Corridor project and Wildpath, Ward has documented a vast array of the natural world,” adds the Society. Read the full Story >>
