People Thursday March 12, 2026
The site Netflix documentary Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model features bombshell stories about the reality-TV show, among them the backstory about a photo shoot in which model-contestants portrayed being found at crimes scenes. In the documentary, one contestant, Dionne Walters, describes being traumatized because her mother had once been a shooting victim. Now, notes People magazine, photographer Mike Rosenthal, who shot the crime scene photos for the show, says he knew nothing about Walters’s story at the time and was “mortified” watching the doc. Read the full Story >>
Danziger Gallery Thursday March 12, 2026
After visiting archaeological sites around Naples, Italy, in 2023, photographer Karen Knorr began a series she calls “Scavi,” the Italian word for “excavations.” The work draws on Roman and Greek myths found in the painted frescoes of Pompeii and Herculaneum, explains New York’s Danziger Gallery, which has the series on view through April 17. “Animals continue to play an important role in Knorr’s new work. They appear in the ancient frescoes and in the preserved remains found at the sites,” notes the gallery. Read the full Story >>
The Washington Post Thursday March 12, 2026
The Pentagon has not permitted press photographers to cover Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s latest briefings on the war in Iran, and, notes Associated Press, it hasn’t explained the change in longstanding policy. But The Washington Post said the move came because Hegseth’s staff objected to “unflattering” pictures of their boss, Hegseth is “notoriously vain" and had a hair and makeup studio built for himself at the Pentagon shortly after be[ing confirmed, adds Rolling Stone. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday March 12, 2026
As a teenager who enjoyed photographing the local skate culture, Ocean Vuong's curiosity led him to the photography section of his community college in Connecticut. There, he was drawn to the work of
Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, and Alec Soth. Now known as an award-winning poet, novelist, and essayist, Vuong has never stopped making photographs; on view through May 10 at the Center for … Read the full Story >>
