Photo by Tony Vaccaro: American painter Georgia O'Keeffe is standing outside her art studio holing her pelvis series color painting.
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
150th Anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Ryan Vizzions: Sitting Bull Healing ride, from Poplar, MT to Fort Buford, ND, 2026
On June 25, 26, and 27, 2026, the National Park Service, in partnership with Tribal Nations, descendants, historians, elected officials, authors, military representatives, and cultural organizations, will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The observance will provide opportunities for reflection, education, and cultural exchange.
The Battle of the Little Bighorn, fought on June 25–26, 1876, in what is now southeastern Montana, was a major conflict between the combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th U.S. Cavalry under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer. The battle took place during rising tensions over U.S. efforts to force Native nations onto reservations following the discovery of gold in the Black Hills, a region sacred to the Lakota.
Custer divided his regiment and launched an attack on a large encampment of Native families and warriors along the Little Bighorn River, but his forces were overwhelmed and defeated in what became one of the most well-known Indigenous military victories in North American history. The engagement resulted in the deaths of Custer and many of his men, and it remains a defining and heavily studied moment in U.S. and Native American history, symbolizing both Indigenous resistance and the escalating conflict over land, sovereignty, and U.S. expansion.
Ryan Vizzions: Sitting Bull healing ride, Montana, 2026
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Gallery Photography Ryan Vizzions is covering the over 300 mile Sitting Bull Healing ride, from Poplar, MT to Fort Buford, ND for the 150th anniversary of Little Bighorn. Vizzions will present an Artist talk on Thursday, July 2 "From Standing Rock To Minneapolis" in association with the current exhibition "America The Beautiful".
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Gray Zones: Unmaking the Myth of a Polarized Nation Features Photography By Nina Berman and Ron Haviv
Gray Zones: Unmaking the Myth of a Polarized Nation
Our summer exhibit was inspired by the semiquincentennial of the United States, which feels less and less united with every passing day. And yet the reality is that all of us, whether we are urban or rural, queer or straight, born in the USA or elsewhere, share similar struggles, loves, hardships, and joys. The dominant narrative is invested in dividing us, in order to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of the few while keeping the rest of us on the margins. This exhibition – an extraordinary collection of work by highly accomplished photographers – challenges viewers to reconsider what are traditionally thought of as lines of division. It is an invitation to see ourselves in each other, regardless of race class, or other differences. It is a reminder that solidarity is not only possible but necessary if we are to continue as a nation.
The show will open on Saturday, June 20th. Puffin Brooklyn will be open that day from 12 pm to 5 pm. At 1 pm, several of the photographers, along with curator and participant Danny Wilcox Frazier, will discuss their works and the themes of the show. Light refreshments will be served, no rsvp needed. Please join us!
Opening June 20th, 2026
12 pm to 5 pm
With special panel discussion at 1 pm, featuring several photographers in the show along with curator and participant Danny Wilcox Frazier
An exhibition of work by eminent photographers that contradicts the narrative of extreme and intractable division in the USA
Featuring: Nina Berman, Sheila Pree Bright, Danny Wilcox Frazier, Jordan Gale, Ron Haviv, Tyrel Iron Eyes, Brooklynn Kascel, Erin Kirkland, Zun Lee, John Lowenstein, Carlos Javier Ortiz.
Curated by Danny Wilcox Frazier
Puffin Foundation
227 5th Ave. Brooklyn Between President and Carroll.
Photographs by Nina Berman and Ron Haviv are included in the current exhibition America The Beautiful, through August 9, 2026.
Sunday, June 14, 2026
Flag Day, June 14, 2026
June 14, Flag Day, 2026
Flag Day is a holiday celebrated on June 14 in the United States. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress.
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Gabriela Campos: A camera, trust and time: Honoring the legacy of borderlands photojournalist Nick Oza
Over the next year, Gabriela Campos will document the role of women within the lowrider and artistic culture of the Southwest after becoming the first recipient of the Nick Oza Visual Fellowship
Gabriela Campos has the wide smile and curious gaze of photographers who know how to see people, not just look at them. In the way she approaches and listens, there is something of photojournalist Nick Oza — that ability to move with people and turn fleeting moments into images charged with time, emotion and humanity.
That same sensitivity is what has now made her the first recipient of the “Nick Oza Visual Fellowship,” created by Altavoz Lab in honor of the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Arizona photographer.
“It feels incredible,” says Valeria Fernández, founder and director of Altavoz Lab, an organization dedicated to guiding, training and supporting local journalists. “I think that with Gabriela’s selection, the project is going to take on a new life and begin to become the legacy of each of the photojournalists who participate.”
For Valeria, it is no longer only Nick’s fellowship. It becomes Gabriela Campos’ community fellowship, “and of whoever follows in her footsteps, and we want it to last for many years into the future.”
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
New Exhibit At Griffin Museum Includes Ashley Gilbertson and Mark Peterson
Via The Griffin Museum of Photography
Vision(ary) is the Griffin Museum of Photography’s annual summer public art exhibition dedicated to the art of visual storytelling. This public art installation features individual exhibitions with distinct photographic styles, including banners hung on light standards and art installations around the Griffin Museum.
From the Civil Rights Movement to contemporary struggles for racial equity, gender justice, environmental protection, labor rights, immigration reform, and democratic accountability, protest has shaped the American narrative.
Photography has been central to this history—documenting resistance, amplifying voices, and creating images that define collective memory.
In the light of America’s 250th anniversary, this year’s edition, Raising Our Voices, presents photographic projects that focus on advocacy, social justice, and activism within the United States—past or present.
Vision(ary) is supported by the Winchester Cultural District, Winchester Cultural Council, John & Mary Murphy Foundation, En Ka Society, Winchester Rotary, Winchester Savings Bank, Griffin Museum Directors Circle, and other cultural and private partners. The exhibition concept and Photo Cube structures are designed by our long time producing partner, Photoville.
Ashley Gilbertson
On September 14, 2008, financial markets around the world plummeted, heralding the beginning of the current economic crisis, the most severe since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Bear Sterns and Lehmann Bros. went bankrupt overnight, and trillions of dollars were invested by the federal government in bail-outs and loans. The nucleus for the crash was Wall Street, where high risk complex bonds turned into toxic assets and unregulated trading imploded.
Three blocks from the Stock Exchange and almost exactly three years later, the Occupy Wall Street protest movement began.
For two months hundreds of people occupied a small wind swept plaza known as Zuccotti Park, where tents, a kitchen, a library, and a twenty-four hour drum circle were quickly set up. Occupiers represented hundreds of different causes, though their overarching frustrations lay with economic inequality and corporate greed. Their slogan “We are the 99%” referred to the enormous income gap between the wealthiest 1% and the rest of the population.
These pictures depict Wall Street during the crash in 2008 and the Occupy movement of 2011. --Ashley Gilbertson
“The Memory Hole is a look at America from November 5, 2024 when President Trump was elected to a second term, till the present, how it has changed America. I am photographing this time for others to see knowing that in the future these images will be dismissed as fake news . As in The Memory Hole in George Orwell’s book 1984, the truth will be burned: ‘There was a memory hole in the opposite wall. O’Brien lifted the grating. Unseen, the frail slip of paper was whirling away on the current of warm air; it was vanishing in a flash of flame. O’Brien turned away from the wall. ‘Ashes,’ he said. ‘Not even identifiable ashes. Dust. It does not exist. It never existed.'” --Mark Peterson
Ashley Gilbertson and Mark Peterson have photographs included in the current exhibition "America The Beautiful", on view at Monroe Gallery through August 9, 2026.
Monday, June 8, 2026
Gallery Talk - RYAN VIZZIONS: From Standing Rock To Minneapolis
Ryan Vizzions: Faces of Fascism, Minneapolis, January, 2026
On July 4, 2026, our nation will commemorate and celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence amid the erosion of civil rights, human rights, and democratic norms. Monroe Gallery presents a special Artist Talk in conjunction with the current exhibition "America The Beautiful".
In September of 2016, Ryan Vizzions traveled from Atlanta, Georgia to stand in solidarity with the Standing Rock NoDAPL movement. Bringing his camera with him, but not intending to be a media source, Vizzions soon found himself using social media to reach over half a billion people with his documentation of events unfolding over the months and helped bring awareness around the world to the movement.
In late 2020 Vizzions embarked on a long term, multi-year project traveling and photographing across the United States to create a photography book documenting all 50 states. Vizzions documented "Operation Metro Surge" in January, 2026 by ICE in Minneapolis involving roughly 3,000 federal agents, leading to the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti. His phootograph of a masked ICE agent appeared as a full-page spread in the February 1 edition of The New York Times Opinion section.
Vizzions has contributed considerable time to photographing and archiving the street memorial of Renee Good.
Thursday, July 2, 2026
Starting promptly at 5:30 pm. Seating is limited and live on Zoom
RSVP essential to info@monroegallery.com or 505 992 0800
Zoom registration here
Thursday, June 4, 2026
Schapiro’s stunning images of jazz greats in New York – from Dizzy Gillespie to Elvin Jones – make up a new book featuring a foreword by late saxophone icon Sonny Rollins
June 3, 2026
Dizzy Gillespie, Apollo theatre, New York, 1962. Photograph by Steve Schapiro
The Guardian: ‘It’ll never be like that again’: Sonny Rollins and Steve Schapiro on jazz’s golden age – in pictures
Vanity Fair: The Late Sax Master Sonny Rollins on Steve Schapiro’s Forgotten Photos of Jazz Giants
WBGO: Steve Schapiro’s Jazz: History hiding in plain sight for 60 years
Sonny Rollins, Apollo Theater, New York, 1962. Photograph by Steve Schapiro
Please contact the Gallery for fine art print details.
Sunday, May 31, 2026
SEIZED transforms a headline-grabbing event into a deeply human story that is urgent, unsettling, and impossible to ignore
May 31, 2026
A gripping, stranger-than-fiction investigative thriller, SEIZED plunges audiences inside the troubling police raid on the Marion County Record. What begins as a shocking small-town incident quickly spirals into a national story, exposing how corruption, politics, and decades-long tensions turned a quiet Kansas community into a battleground over the First and Fourth Amendments. The film unfolds in real time through police body-cam and surveillance footage, revealing the chaos of the raid, the bombshells that followed, and the devastating personal toll on the newsroom, including the tragic death of its 98-year-old co-owner.
Director Sharon Liese allows the story to unfold with nuance, surprise, eccentric characters, and moments of humor. By letting each voice speak for itself, she crafts a rare documentary in which sympathies shift moment to moment, revealing how truth, ego, and fear collide in real time. Blending the juicy intrigue of a classic muckraking narrative with a clear-eyed exploration of power, politics, and the fragility of a free press, SEIZED transforms a headline-grabbing event into a deeply human story that is urgent, unsettling, and impossible to ignore.
Saturday, June 13
1:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
641 D St NW, Washington, DC 20004
Friday, May 29, 2026
Broken fingers and busted cameras: Photojournalists say ICE targeted them during wild clash outside Delaney Hall
May 29. 2026
Photojournalists in federal agents’ sights
As the night grew later, several photojournalists alleged they were purposely targeted and attacked by some of the agents.
Reuters photojournalist Ryan Murphy told amNewYork that he was beaten with a baton over the last several nights, and on Thursday, they aimed for his camera. He believes the blow they struck broke a finger.
“I had just photographed a guy on the ground getting bear-sprayed in the face, turned around to another protester getting shoved or something, and I was just hit by a baton in the finger next to my flash, and yeah, my hand just went numb. My flash flew on the ground,” Murphy recalled. “There is a big gash on my middle finger. It was bleeding pretty badly, I think it’s broken.”
Murphy ultimately left the scene and transported himself to a local hospital for treatment.
Another photographer alleged she was purposefully shoved to the ground. Madison Swart, a frequent contributor to The New York Times, said she was documenting the clash when an agent struck her with a baton, knocking her to the ground.
“I was moving back as they were asking us to and I got shoved with a baton, and I fell because it was very forceful. And then another agent did help me up, but it wasn’t the same one that pushed me,” Swart said. “I was just a little in shock, just because I’ve never fallen while shooting before, and so I, I’m kind of like still trying to process in my head how I could have reacted maybe a little bit better, but at the same time, when someone who is like twice my body size pushes me, I don’t know if there’s much more I can really do.”
Another photographer could be seen huddling in the fetal position as agents trampled over her, while another prominent photographer, who asked not to be named, had the top of his camera smashed."
Full article with photographs here.
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