An oversized face. Bright red lipstick. Staring straight into the camera. The key visual for BOZAR's exhibition 'Picture Perfect. Beauty through a Contemporary Lens' is taken from Pipilotti Rist's iconic video work Be Nice To Me (Flatten 04) (2000), perfectly encapsulating the exhibition's central premise: beauty is not a constant. It is a construct, a projection, and an instrument of power.

Bringing together 65 international artists from different generations and cultural backgrounds, BOZAR – Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels explores how photography and moving images have shaped - and...

Fire Island is far more than a beach just outside New York City. For almost a century, the narrow barrier island has served as a sanctuary, a place of longing and a creative universe for generations of artists, photographers and queer creatives from around the world. With 'Fire Island Art: 100 Years', a comprehensive new volume now documents the visual history of this extraordinary place.

Edited by John Dempsey, the book traces Fire Island's artistic legacy from the 1930s to the present day, bringing together iconic works alongside rarely seen archival material. Featured artists include...

During the opening week of this year’s Rencontres d’Arles, Kehrer Verlag presents the group exhibition New York Trilogy at Kehrer Arles Plus. Bringing together works by Nina Welch-Kling, Jens Krauer and Mario Schneider, the exhibition explores New York through three distinct photographic voices shaped by different cultural, historical and personal experiences.

While all three artists take the city as their point of departure, their work unfolds in remarkably different ways. New York Trilogy reveals how New York can be read simultaneously as an urban landscape, a repository of collective...

Hasselblad has announced the winners of the Hasselblad Masters 2026. Selected from more than 108,000 submissions across 160 countries and regions, seven photographers have earned the prestigious title of Hasselblad Master.

Widely regarded as one of the most important awards in contemporary photography, the competition celebrates outstanding creative vision as well as technical excellence. Winners were selected across the categories Landscape, Architecture, Portrait, Art, Street, Wildlife, and Project//21.

The entries were evaluated by the Hasselblad Masters Grand Jury, supported by a global...

'Blazing Light' is the new photobook and companion volume to the first major museum solo exhibition of renowned American photographer Mimi Plumb.

In the book, Plumb takes stock of her nearly 50-year career and brings together three of her most important series: The White Sky, Landfall (and The Golden City), and The Reservoir.

Since the 1970s, Plumb has documented the human-altered landscapes of California and the American West. Her images capture the deep social and psychological anxieties of American life at the end of the Cold War and in its aftermath. They address unbridled capitalism,...

With Transformation of a Landscape, American photographer Victoria Sambunaris publishes her first book in more than a decade. Released by Radius Books, the large-format volume brings together work from the past ten years while continuing her long-term project Taxonomy of a Landscape, an ongoing body of work she has pursued for more than twenty years.

For her practice, Sambunaris spends several months each year travelling alone across the United States. Equipped with a 5x7-inch large-format camera, film, a video camera and extensive research materials, she documents the ongoing...

Bodies, animals, masks, sculptures, myths and a constant tension between beauty and unease: for more than two decades, Camille Vivier has created photographic worlds that resist easy categorisation. Her images move between fashion and art, reality and dream, physical presence and surreal staging. Women become heroines, animals become symbols, and still lifes evolve into enigmatic narratives filled with tension and poetry.

Now, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) in Paris is dedicating its first major retrospective to the French photographer. Although Camille Vivier herself...

Anish Kapoor, one of the most influential artists of our time, returns to the Hayward Gallery, where he presented his first major British retrospective almost 30 years ago.

Sir Anish Kapoor is one of the world's most influential contemporary sculptors. Born in Mumbai, India, in 1954, he has lived in London since the 1970s. He is known for monumental sculptures in public spaces and for his intense exploration of space, geometry, and perception.

Kapoor's exhibition fills the entire gallery building with a series of immersive works, many of which are affixed to walls and floors or suspended...

If there is one photography exhibition worth travelling for this summer, it is undoubtedly Paolo Roversi’s ‘Doubts’ at the MOP Foundation in A Coruña. Opening on 20 June, the exhibition brings together iconic masterworks and previously unseen images, offering visitors an intimate journey into the artistic universe of one of the most influential photographers of our time. Running until 20 September, Doubts transforms the spectacular MOP Center on A Coruña’s waterfront into a world of beauty, mystery, light and shadow.

And the setting could hardly be more inspiring. Located directly on the...

The independent art project 'ZAC x BIG NAMES' by photographer and artist Wolfgang Zac deliberately breaks with the classic conventions of luxury and fashion photography. The studio shots feature no handbags, no shoes, and no designer collections. The actual consumer goods are completely omitted.

Only the branded bags and garment bags of major fashion houses are visible in the photographs. These, however, have been repurposed and draped directly on the models' bodies as avant-garde headwear, clothing, or accessories.

According to the artist, this technique shifts the visual perception away...