Photographer Sarah van Riij calls her first monograph, "Atlas of Echoes," a "map of my visual universe, images created over seven years, from many places, forming a poetic, parallel reflection of the world as I perceive it." (The release of the book coincides with an exhibition at the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie (MEP) in Paris, on view through Jan. 25.) Her new book … Read the full Story >>
On Jan. 6, 2021, 140 police officers were injured defending the U.S. Capitol from a violent mob of President Trump's supporters. Five years later, many still live with the physical and psychological damage from that day, notes NPR, which recently sat down with two officers who defended the Capitol — Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges — to watch their police body camera footage from the insurrection. Both were subjected to some of the most brutal violence of the day, inside a tunnel where police were outnumbered by rioters. Read the full Story >>
“The rise of the cinematic, the algorithmic, of AI and rapid computational systems, has reconfigured the image from something fixed and retrospective to something generative and elastic. The photograph is newly temporal,” notes senior Museum of Modern Art photography curator Roxanna Marcoci in a wide-ranging Artforum discussion about the future of photography. Joining Marcoci are photographers Thomas Demand, Jeff Wall, and others. “In its nearly two-hundred-year history, photography has continuously reinvented itself,” notes Marcoci. Read the full Story >>
As a staff photographer for Surfer magazine, Tom Servais spent years traveling the world with the best surfers and shooting perfect waves in far-flung locations, while earning enough money to buy a home in California. But the landscape that shaped his career has changed considerably in the last few decades, notes The Inertia. Servais, who was inducted into surfing’s Hall of Fame in 2025, says the advent of social media and shifts in marketing trends – among other factors – have made it far more difficult to survive solely as a surf photographer. Read the full Story >>
