It’s Nice That Wednesday February 25, 2026
When photographer Callum O’Keefe mulls over ideas for photo projects, he often looks for eccentric events that take place annually in the UK— events, notes It’s Nice That, like the World Bog Snorkeling Championships in the rural South Wales town of Llanwrtyd Wells. The event itself involves a 60-meter swim in a peat bog—not exactly the Olympics, but much muddier—but O’Keefe is as much interested in the people who show up, often to compete for the prize for the best costume. His approach, he says, is strictly “run and gun.” Read the full Story >>
FRIEZE Wednesday February 25, 2026
This year’s Frieze Los Angeles art fair (Feb. 26-Mar 1) features an abundance of photography, with multiple stands entirely dedicated to work in the medium, suggesting that the enthusiasm for photographs among contemporary art lovers is strong. The relatively lower prices of photography (compared to other types of art works) has cultivated new audiences, notes Frieze. The ubiquity of the photographic image in the digital age, far from dissuading collectors form the medium, seems only to strengthen their appetite, says Gagosian director of photography Joshua Chuang. Read the full Story >>
Aperture Wednesday February 25, 2026
Veteran photographers like Philip Montgomery and Philip Cheung have published dramatic visual reportage of the clash between ICE agents and protesters in Minneapolis for The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker, respectively, while staff reporters and photographers for The Minnesota Star Tribune filed stories from all corners of the Twin Cities, notes Aperture. On February 7, the newspaper published “31 Days in Minnesota,” a visual record of a tumultuous period of the city’s history. Read the full Story >>
Projections Wednesday February 25, 2026
Join photographers Beth Huerta and Steve Giovinco for a new Projections tonight. Huerta’s work, constructed from memory and imagination, depicts a world that feels familiar—less like invention than recollection. Giovinco’s long-exposure night photography “Churn” series, made in Greenland, finds strange color casts mixed with moonlight or illuminated by the aurora borealis. “Given recent geopolitical and environmental dangers, I fee Greenland is ever more on the precipice of collapse,” he says. Where: via Zoom. When: 7:00 ET. Read the full Story >>
