How we captured the photo of federal immigration agents pointing a crowd control weapon at a protester

 Via The Chicago Sun Times

October 18, 2025

"Our photographers will continue to document these stories and more as they unfold. We couldn’t be prouder of their work. Here are 18 more photos from the Sun-Times."

Ron Haviv Exhibition Featured At FOTOIST - International Photography Festival - Edition 3

Via Fotoist International Photography Festival

October 17, 2025 

Program – FOTOIST

Exhibition: "A Brief Guide to Investigating War Crimes” by Ron Haviv - VII Foundation / 17.10.2025 / 18:00 / Barabar Centre - Grand 4th Floor 

Photo: © Ron Haviv – VII Foundation / Young Darfuri girls leave a camp for internally displaced persons to gather firewood. Girls as young as 8 have been raped, attacked and killed trying to get wood. Darfur, Sudan, 2005

Exhibition: “A Brief Guide to Investigating War Crimes” by Ron Haviv

World-Renowned Photojournalist Ron Haviv Presents “A Brief Guide to Investigating War Crimes”

Internationally acclaimed photojournalist and co-founder of the VII Foundation, Ron Haviv, in collaboration with the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN), presents the powerful exhibition “A Brief Guide to Investigating War Crimes.”

Curated by Haviv himself, the exhibition draws from the GIJN’s definitive guide for journalists covering war crimes, and features evocative and hard-hitting imagery by members of the prestigious VII Foundation. Through a compelling visual narrative, the exhibition explores the brutal realities of armed conflict, the mechanisms of war crimes, and their long-lasting human and societal impacts.

“A Brief Guide to Investigating War Crimes” underscores the critical role of investigative journalism, human rights advocacy, and legal accountability in uncovering the truth. It stands as both a tribute to courageous reporting and a call to action for justice and transparency in times of war.

RON HAVIV

Ron Haviv is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and an award-winning photojournalist. He co-founded VII Photo Agency and The VII Foundation, where he currently serves as a director. He is dedicated to documenting conflict and raising human rights issues around the globe.

Haviv’s first photography book, Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal, was called “One of the best non-fiction books of the year,” by The Los Angeles Times and “A chilling but vastly important record of a people’s suffering” by Newsweek. His other monographs are Afghanistan: The Road to Kabul, Haiti: 12 January 2010, The Lost Rolls and Shadow of Memory.

Haviv has produced an unflinching record of the injustices of war covering over twenty-five conflicts and his photography has had singular impact. His work in the Balkans, which spanned over a decade of conflict, was used as evidence to indict and convict war criminals at the international tribunal in The Hague. President George H.W Bush cited Haviv’s chilling photographs documenting paramilitary violence in Panama as one of the reasons for the 1989 American intervention.

His work is in the collections of The Getty, Eastman House and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston amongst others and has been seen in numerous other museums and galleries, including the Louvre, United Nations, Council on Foreign Relations, Fotografiska, and the International Center of Photography.

Haviv has co-created multi-platform projects for Doctors Without Borders’ DR Congo: The Forgotten War and Starved for Attention, Unicef’s Child Alert for Darfur and Sri Lanka and the International Committee of the Red Cross’s World at War. His commercial clients include Ad Council, American Express, BAE, Canon USA, ESPN, IBM and Volkswagen.

Haviv is the central character in six documentary films, including National Geographic Explorer’s Freelance in a World of Risk, in which he speaks about the dangers of combat photography, including his numerous detentions and close calls. He has provided expert analysis and commentary on ABC World News, BBC, CNN, NPR, MSNBC, NBC Nightly News, Good Morning America, and The Charlie Rose Show. He has written opinion pieces for the Washington Post and The New York Times and spoken at TEDx along with numerous other lectures at Universities and conferences.

He is currently co-directing two documentaries, Biography of a Photo and Picasso of Harlem.

Anna Boyiazis Receives Highly Commended Recognition At 61st Wildlife Photographer Of The Year 2025

 Via Natural History Museum in London

October 15, 2025

Wildlife Photographer of the Year at The Natural History Museum in London celebrates the extraordinary life with which we share this planet, while illuminating some of the urgent threats it faces. On exhibit October 17, 2025 to July 12, 2026. 

Anna Boyiazis (USA) documents this low-tide scene of seaweed farmers tending to their underwater farm on the Zanzibar coast.

Seaweed farmers Maua Mkubwa (standing) and Maua Mdogo nurture their undersea garden in the Indian Ocean off  Paje, Zanzibar, within the Menai Bay Conservation Area, the archipelago’s largest marine-protected area. As members of the women-led, community-based Mwani (Swahili for seaweed) Zanzibar co-operative, they sustainably harvest a red alga in the genus Eucheuma, known as eucheumatoid seaweeds. These are used to create handmade skincare for international markets.

This recent initiative is empowering local women and improving the livelihoods of families traditionally reliant on fishing — now facing depleted stocks due to climate change, overfishing and destructive practices. Seaweed cultivation also has environmental benefits: the fronds absorb carbon dioxide in photosynthesis and take up nitrogen and phosphorus, and act as a water purifier ­by reducing acidification and removing some pollutants. All this, while providing precious habitat for marine life.

Anna is a documentary photographer based between Southern California, USA, and East Africa. Her areas of focus include conservation, human rights, public health and women and girls’ issues. Her ongoing project Finding Freedom in the Water, which was first published by National Geographic, documents women and girls in Zanzibar learning to swim – an act of emancipation. Anna is a contributing photographer for GEO, National Geographic and The New York Times Magazine. She has an MFA from the Yale School of Art and a BA from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

Jesse L. Douglas, Aide to King in Marches From Selma, Is Dead at 90

Via The New York Times

Oct. 11, 2025 

A lieutenant to Martin Luther King Jr. and a fellow preacher, he played a vital role in organizing voting-rights protests in 1965 that began with “Bloody Sunday.”

Steve Schapiro: The Rev. Jesse L. Douglas, second from right, joined an Alabama voting-rights march in 1965. With him were, from left, the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, James Forman, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis

"But Mr. Douglas, an albino with fair skin, blue eyes and blond hair, was perhaps best remembered for a widely circulated photograph by Steve Schapiro in which he is the lone pale figure among a group of Black Americans walking arm in arm as they marched in Alabama."

Full obituary

Christie's Photographs Sale in New York Achieves World Auction Record Price For Gordon Parks American Gothic, Washington D.C., 1942

Via Christie's

October 10, 2025

NEW YORK – Christie's is pleased to announce the results of its Photographs sale, which concluded in New York on October 10. The online-only auction totaled $3.6 million, with a strong sell-through rate of 83% by lot and 115% against low estimate. The sale attracted robust global participation, including 24% of bidders and buyers new to Christie's. 

Spanning the history of the medium, the sale was led by Ansel Adams (1902–1984) with Aspens, Northern New Mexico, 1958, which realized $330,200. This was followed by Edward Weston (1886–1958) with Wind Erosion, Dunes at Oceano, 1936, selling for $190,500. 

The sale achieved a world auction record price an important work by Gordon Parks (1912–2006), American Gothic, Washington D.C., 1942, which realized $38,100 against a low estimate of $7,000. 

Additional highlights included: Helmut Newton (1920–2004), Fifteen Photographs, 1980, which achieved $120,650, nearly double its low estimate and an Irving Penn (1917–2009), Café in Lima, 'Vogue' fashion photograph (Jean Patchett), 1948, which sold for $95,250, surpassing its high estimate.  

The sale underscored continued demand for iconic photographic works and reaffirmed Christie's leadership in the category. 

Fragments in Time, a powerful two-person exhibition of work by renowned photojournalists Ashley Gilbertson and Franco Pagetti, opening this fall at Stanley. The exhibition is presented courtesy of Monroe Gallery of Photography.

 

Via Twenty Summers

Twenty Summers is proud to present Fragments in Time, a powerful two-person exhibition of work by renowned photojournalists Ashley Gilbertson and Franco Pagetti, opening this fall at Stanley. The exhibition is presented courtesy of Monroe Gallery of Photography.

First shown at Mad Rose Gallery in Millerton, NY, Fragments in Time brings together two distinct photographic voices in a tightly woven visual conversation that ranges in subject matter from the fashion world to the war torn lands, from refugee camps to New York during the pandemic. Though their assignments in conflict zones have taken them to different places—Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and beyond—Gilbertson’s and Pagetti’s work in this sphere overlaps in theme and sensibility, showing a deep concern for both soldiers’ and civilians’ experience of war, the emotional residue of violence, and the personal, often ambiguous role of the photographer as witness. War is not an event but a state that persists in bodies, landscapes, and memory.

At Stanley, these and other images—intimate, unflinching, and formally rigorous—are installed in close proximity, allowing the viewer to move between scenes of devastation, reflection, solitude, and survival.

Fragments in Time Opening Reception

Friday, October 10, 2025

7:00 PM  9:00 PM

Stanley

494 Commercial Street

Provincetown, MA, 02657

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Fragments in Time | Ashley Gilbertson and Ben Brody in Conversation

Join us for an evening of conversation and reflection as photographers Ashley Gilbertson and Ben Brody explore the role of images in shaping memory, documenting conflict, and capturing fleeting moments in time. Presented as part of our new exhibition Fragments in Time, this event invites audiences into a dialogue on storytelling, truth, and the emotional weight of visual history.

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Saturday, October 11, 2025

6:00 PM  7:30 PM

Stanley

494 Commercial Street

Provincetown, MA, 02657

Cincinatti Art Museum: Recall. Reframe. Respond. The Art of Paul Scott With Images By Ryan Vizzions

 Via The Cincinatti Art Museum

Sampler Jug (after Stubbs), No. 8, from the series Cumbrian Blue(s), New American Scenery, 2022, Paul Scott (British, b. 1953), transfer-printed collage on pearlware jug with "Defend The Sacred" by Ryan Vizzions, Courtesy of Paul Scott and Ferrin Contemporary, 

© 2022 Paul Scott, photo credit: John Polak

October 10, 2025–January 4, 2026

Vance Waddell and Mayerson Galleries (Galleries 124 and 125)

Free. Exhibition does not require separate tickets.

Posy Vase, No. 3, Broken Treaties & Leonard Peltier, 2025, Paul Scott (British, b. 1953), transfer print collage on pearlware posy vase with "Defend The Sacred" by Ryan Vizzions, 

 Courtesy of Paul Scott and Ferrin Contemporary, © 2025 Paul Scott

At first glance, artist Paul Scott’s transfer-printed tableware may look familiar—like something you have seen in your grandparents’ china cabinet or a second-hand shop. Look closer and you will notice subtle differences that add up to a powerful narrative shift. Scott (British, b. 1953) subverts this seemingly unassuming blue-and-white “cultural wallpaper” to create sharp, thought-provoking social commentary. Working with new ceramic forms or repurposing antique pieces, Scott breaks, reassembles, erases, and adds details using screenprinting, engraving, and collage processes to create new “historical” patterns. Broadly, his works address updated narratives about art, history and American experiences.

Based in the northwest English county of Cumbria, Scott is an artist, author, curator and educator who is best known for his unique ability to employ extensive historical and technical knowledge of ceramics to create provocative artworks and social commentary. During a visit to Ohio State University in 1999, Scott became inspired by historical British-made blue-and-white ceramic transferwares that depicted American scenes, directly engaging American consumers. After his visit, Scott challenged himself to create his own versions that recontextualize the messages embedded within these historical works by focusing on contemporary imagery and subjects. Scott’s New American Scenery series reflects his personal experiences of being and traveling in America, and, in his words, the need to “rebalance the narrative with something more contemporary and inclusive.”

Scott shares: “Industrial transferwares were part of the new media revolution in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. They have always carried images and patterns which have journeyed through media, time, histories and geographies, capturing and changing meanings as they have travelled. Cumbrian Blue(s) contemporary artworks reference these original wares, so I very much enjoy opportunities which allow me to juxtapose my 21st century iterations alongside the historic in visual dialogues that act to re-animate (sometimes forgotten) objects from museum stores. For Recall. Reframe. Respond., I am excited to extend this process to include paintings, prints, photographs and other artworks from Cincinnati Art Museum’s extensive collections, creating new ‘conversations’ and reanimations.”

In addition to the Ryan Vizzions' images used on the  transfer-printed tableware, The Cincinatti Museum of Art is exhibiting a print of   "Defend The Sacred" by Ryan Vizzions.

Ed Kashi Discusses Three Of His Most Significant Photographs

 Via The Crit House

October 5, 2025

Ed Kashi is a renowned photojournalist, filmmaker, speaker and educator who has been making images and telling stories for 40 years. His restless creativity has continually placed him at the forefront of new approaches to visual storytelling. Dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our times, a sensitive eye and an intimate and compassionate relationship to his subjects are signatures of his intense and unsparing work. As a member of VII Photo, Kashi has been recognized for his complex imagery and its compelling rendering of the human condition.  "A Period In Time" is now on exhibit at Monroe Gallery of Photography

Lowrider images from 'New Mexican' photojournalist Gabriela Campos featured in Smithsonian exhibit

 Via The Santa Fe New Mexican

October 4, 2025

ALBUQUERQUE — Armed with a Sony camera, Gabriela Campos lowered herself to the sidewalk as the candy red ’59 Chevy Impala glided to a standstill on Central Avenue, embarking on a long run of hops and undulations with its hydraulic suspension pulling hard.

The cruise was on, and Campos was out chasing cars on Central again on a recent Sunday, shifting the lens for a shot in the day’s final light. Mesmerizing, chrome hypnotic and upholstery speckless, the vehicles rolled before the Kimo Theatre, cool and defiant street royalty, a Bel Air with an imitation fox tail swinging from the mirror in the urban desert wind.

Late last month was a major career moment for the New Mexican photographer, who has become known in recent years for her intimate photography of lowriders and the culture surrounding them. A collection of Campos’ lowrider work is now on display in Washington, D.C., at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in an exhibit titled Corazón y vida: Lowriding Culture that opened Sept. 26 and will run through October of 2027.

That her images are featuring so prominently on a stage more or less unparalleled in photography and in the arts is a dream come true for Campos, who is Santa Fe born and raised.

The exhibit also carries the work of noted Chicano photographer Estevan Oriol and the actual bodies of two classic Chevy Impalas, “El Rey” and “Gypsy Rose.” The latter is often referred to as the most famous lowrider ever.

Campos is the lone New Mexican featured in the show.

Lowriders compete in a hopping competition during The Albuquerque Super Show in 2023.

Courtesy Gabriela Campos

Her photographs show people living their lives out loud with the portraits of their family members etched on their cars, much love for the scene in their hearts and Zia symbols and Virgin Mary tattoos abounding. They come into focus proud, resolute before the glittering skyline of no-nonsense Albuquerque.

“The joy for me comes from being on the corner of 7th and Central, surrounded by friends and chasing cars,” Campos said. “It’s about the people, the community, hearing the backstory of the cars, where they come from, how far they’ve come.”

Her five photographs in the exhibit include quintessential Norteño scenes. There is a cleansing elegance about the images, the cars dramatizing their surroundings anew. A red convertible cruises in the evening next to a chile stand with portraits of Jesus Christ just outside El Santuario de Chimayó. A silver whip with one wheel in the air wends its way past the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi near the Santa Fe Plaza.

The project was years in the making. Curators for the show reached out to Campos about five years ago, wanting her photos to play a part.

“Walking into the show, I was sort of in disbelief that, after a five-year process, it was real,” said Campos, who recently returned from Washington, D.C. “... I’ve been shooting lowriders for years now, and it’s been such a journey.”

Campos graduated from Santa Fe High School and later attended the University of New Mexico. Campos has become a part of the street scene itself, a mainstay in the hopping pits and around the cruises. Riders pull up to a traffic light on Central, already posing on Campos’ approach.

For Campos, the people are as inspiring as the candy-colored vehicles they pilot. A focus for her has always been female lowriders, depicted in two of her photographs that will be in the Smithsonian’s permanent collection.

An Impala slowly makes its way past the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi following a Santa Fe lowrider day in 2023

Courtesy Gabriela Campos

“It’s really empowering to see women behind the wheel — working on upholstery, working on pinstriping,” Campos said.

When she sees a car she does not recognize, Campos smiles, shakes her head and marvels at it as she wonders where it has come from — a Belen Impala that does not get out much? It’s enough to make her night.

Her dream car? A ’59 Chevrolet El Camino.

American photojournalist urges Kurds to honor past while embracing future

 Photojournalist Ed Kashi will be at the Gallery tomorrow, Friday, Oct. 3 for a book signing and conversation with Don Carleton, Executive Director of the Briscoe Center For American History.

Conversation begins at 5:30, book signing follows

Seating is limited RSVP essential

Exhibition continues through November 16, 2025

Via RUDAW

October 2, 2025

Watch video here

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - An American photojournalist who has documented Kurdish struggles for more than three decades urged Kurds to honor their history while also embracing their cultural identity and future role in the world.

“It’s important to hold on and remember the past, but it’s so important to move forward… not to forget the past, but not to dwell on it,” Ed Kashi told Rudaw earlier this week. 

Kashi said that he first arrived in what is now Kurdistan Region in 1991 during the refugee crisis that followed the Kurdish uprising against Saddam Hussein, which was then brutally suppressed and led to a massive refugee crisis as over a million Kurds fled to the mountains along the Turkish and Iranian borders, fearing renewed genocide. In response, a US-led Coalition launched Operation Provide Comfort to deliver aid and enforce a No-Fly Zone, which led to a de facto safe haven where Kurds began to establish their own autonomous administration in 1992.

“I was with [Kurdistan Democratic Party President Masoud] Barzani and [late Patriotic Union of Kurdistan leader Jalal] Talabani in the mountains,” he recalled. “They were trying to figure out what to do… reclaiming their authority for good and bad, establishing political structures, economic structures, [and] trying to figure out how to reclaim this land.”

“There is so many reasons now for Kurdish people, especially in Iraq… [where] you actually have a chance to move forward, you know, to teach new generations about your amazing, glorious history and past, and to talk about good things that are happening,” Kashi said

Reflecting on the aftermath of the Anfal campaign in 1988, which killed an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 Kurds and destroyed more than 4,000 villages, he said, “I had never seen anything like that before: all the destroyed villages, towns and communities.”

Kashi, who spoke to Rudaw on the sidelines of the inaugural Kurdish Studies Forum at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS) on Saturday, echoed an AUIS graduate Lana Salim, who last week, during an episode of Rudaw’s Legel Ranj program, said Kurds should not only look back on tragedy but also celebrate their cultural and artistic contributions. “It is time for us as Kurds… to remind ourselves of the cultural and artistic essence we have, [and] act based on the premise that we should be a player in the world,” she said.

His 1994 book When the Borders Bleed: Struggle of the Kurd, which he published with the late British journalist Christopher Hitchens, had lasting resonance. 

“A Kurd I met in Europe told me that book taught them about their history,” Kashi said. “One of the beautiful things about doing something for so long is when you meet people and realize your work had an impact on their lives.”

“I truly believe if we can change one mind, that is when change begins,” the photojournalist said. “If you can change one young person to maybe become a historian or a Kurdish scholar or a journalist to tell the stories of their own people, that is a beautiful thing.”