HYPERALLERGIC Friday February 20, 2026
Photographer Jerry McMillan, who played a key role in documenting the mid-century art scene in Los Angeles, died on Monday, February 9, at the age of 89. After graduating from the Chouinard Art Institute (now the California Institute of the Arts), McMillan began photographing his friends and other artists, especially those in the orbit of seminal Ferus Gallery, notes Hyperallergic. “So much of what we know about the LA art scene in that era is from Jerry’s photos,” said Andrew Perchuck, interim director of the Getty Research Institute, which in 2015 acquired McMillan’s photographic archives from the 1960s and ’70s. Read the full Story >>
The Guardian Friday February 20, 2026
“Photography has a unique capacity to take us right to humanity’s extremes,” notes The Guardian, which spotlights the exhibition “Muscle Memory: Lens On The Body,” on view at the Phoenix Art Museum through June 28. Drawn primarily from the collections of the Center for Creative Photography and Phoenix Art Museum, the exhibition showcases a wide range of historical and contemporary works that explore the ways photographers have represented the human figure and bodily experiences of movement, aging, and disability. Read the full Story >>
DIYPhotography Friday February 20, 2026
VSCO has introduced an editing tool, called Prompt, that lets you describe what you want done to an image using natural language, instead of manually adjusting sliders and buttons: You can type phrases like “fix the blown-out sky,” “remove window reflections,” or “make the lighting more dramatic” and see VSCO apply the change. An important aspect of Prompt is its ability to work across multiple generations. You can apply one instruction, judge the result, and then send a follow-up edit to continue refining the image, notes DIY Photography. Read the full Story >>
Reuters Friday February 20, 2026
When news broke that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had been arrested on Thursday in connection with his conduct as a UK trade envoy and after disclosures of emails linked to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, Manchester-based Reuters photographer Phil Noble set off on a six-hour drive to Norfolk, the county that is home to the royal Sandringham estate. He ended up getting a viral shot of the visibly shaken former Prince Andrew slumped in the back seat of his Range Rover after he was released from police custody following a day of questioning. Read the full Story >>
