Thursday, October 9, 2025

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


black and white graphic adverstising Fragments of Time exhibit with information text over a grey NYC stret scene



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


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.


Saturday, October 11, 2025
6:00 PM  7:30 PM
Stanley
494 Commercial Street
Provincetown, MA, 02657

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

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

 Via The Cincinatti Art Museum



photograph of a transfer-printed tableware vase with woman on horseback facing police

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.

photograph of a transfer-printed tableware vase with woman on horseback facing police

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.

Sunday, October 5, 2025

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






Saturday, October 4, 2025

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.

color photograph of a lowrider car "hopping", its front end raised high to the sky

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.


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

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.

Thursday, October 2, 2025

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


October 2, 2025


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.”

Friday, September 26, 2025

Friday, Oct. 3: Gallery Conversation and Book Signing With Ed Kashi






black and white photograph of a person with an umbrella admiring a cloudy view near Machu Picchu.
Ed Kashi: A journey, made in 1999, to some of Peru's most outstanding natural and man-made sights. 
A cloudy view near Machu Picchu.



A new exhibition celebrates Ed Kashi's most recent book, A Period in Time: Looking Back while Moving Forward: 1977–2022, a stunning and expansive retrospective of photographs spanning the world and his prolific career. One of the world's most celebrated photojournalists and filmmakers, Ed Kashi has dedicated the past 45 years to documenting the social and geopolitical issues that define our era.

Book signing and conversation with Ed Kashi and Don Carleton, Executive Director of the Briscoe Center For American History

Friday, October 3 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Conversation begins at 5:30, book signing follows

Seating is limited RSVP essential

Exhibition continues through November 16, 2025



"When I first fell in love with photography, I had a deep desire to tell stories that could have an impact on both individuals and the greater good. I wanted to produce stories that would contribute to positive change in the world. But what’s truly captivating about being a visual storyteller is the privilege to learn about the world and observe individuals who are doing inspiring acts or living through traumatic and trying times."— Ed Kashi



Thursday, September 25, 2025

Lowrider exhibit at Smithsonian Museum will feature work from Gabriela Campos

 


A lowrider image by photographer Gabriela Campos, featured in the exhibition.


On Friday, Sept. 26, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington D.C. will open the exhibition Corazón y vida, honoring more than 80 years of lowriding culture.

Gallery photographer Gabriela Campos is a native Santa Fean and staff photojournalist for her hometown paper, The New Mexican, as well as top-tier publications around the world.  Campos will have some of her work featured in the exhibit, “Corazón y Vida: Lowriding Culture,” opening Sept. 26, 2025, in the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.

Spanning 80 years of history, “Corazón y Vida” showcases lowriding as a Mexican American and Chicano art form, rooted in community, identity and creativity.

Campos is a native Santa Fean who works for her hometown paper, The New Mexican, as well as top-tier publications around the world. Gabriela Campos has photographed pretty much everything: ride-alongs with the border patrol for The New Mexican, the removal of conquistador statues for The Guardian, Oaxaca teacher riots and Mayan healing rituals for Al Jazeera, and the first indigenous Comic Con for VICE. 

Five years ago, she did a profile on New Mexican lowriders for VICE, and fell in love with the people, their cars, the whole culture. She describes what obsesses her about what she calls “a project I’ll be doing the rest of my life:”

Campos rode in the New Mexico scene for years, getting to know the unabashedly proud drivers whose vehicles are a personal expression of life in the streetlight glare in New Mexican towns like Burque, Spaña and Chimayó. Her long familiarity with the culture enables her to capture the celebratory atmosphere and shared love of pageantry

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Beyond Extraction: Nina Berman

 Via The SNF Rendez-Vous de l’Institut 


October 2, 2025

Beyond Extraction

Nina Berman

SNF RENDEZ-VOUS

7 p.m.

Reid Hall | 4, rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris

Free, registration required

color photograph of four effigies on an abandoned fladbed in the forest




Beyond Extraction: Climate Futures and a Photography of Ecology

Proof of registration, via a QR code on your phone or on paper, will be required to enter Reid Hall. Entry will be refused to those who are not registered.


Please note that access will not be permitted 15 minutes after the start of the event.


This event will be held in English.

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Nina Berman will present work on communities trapped amid extractive violence as a launching point for a larger discussion about trends in both journalism and photography and the importance of centering radical climate futures as a topic of inquiry.

Nina Berman is a documentary photographer, filmmaker, journalist, and professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Her work looks at war, militarism, trauma, and environmental justice. She is a 2025 Guggenheim fellow, the author of three books, and is represented in numerous public collections including the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Smithsonian.

The Rendez-Vous de l’Institut Series is generously supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

Sunday, September 21, 2025

What the Photoshop Panic Should Have Taught Us About AI

 Via The Nation



...In that span of time, we have seen a technological revolution: the rise of smartphones, social media platforms, self-driving cars, drones, VR headsets, 3D printers, hoverboards (but not the kind we all actually wanted), and more. But what, shockingly, hasn’t seemed to change, is our visual literacy. Just as in 2004, the prospective voting public in 2024 was still duped by a picture roaming around the Web. How come we didn’t learn our lesson?... - full article here




Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Here and Now: Art heals: Through The Jingle Dress Project, Navajo artist honors missing and murdered women

 Via WBUR

September 16, 2025


black and white photograph of 4 Native American women in Jingle Dresses with red scarves and face masks standing in tall grass with snow-capped Teton mountains in backgrounf


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Navajo artist and photographer Eugene Tapahe had a dream during the COVID-19 pandemic of women dancing in Yellowstone National Park in jingle dresses, traditional pow wow regalia. From that dream, he started The Jingle Dress Project, photographs of his daughters and two of their friends in various settings, as a gesture of healing and a way to bring attention to the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

The exhibit is at the Monroe Gallery in Sante Fe, New Mexico, through September 28. Host Peter O'Dowd speaks with Tapahe and his daughter Dion Tapahe, who appears in the photographs.

color photograph of 3 Native American women in brightly colored Jingle Dresses with red face masks with blue sky in backgroundon the Salt Flats in Utah

This is a limited-edition image from the Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project photo series. This image was captured at the Salt Flats in Utah, native land of the Goshute people. (Courtesy of Eugene Tapahe)