150th Anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Ryan Vizzions:  Sitting Bull Healing ride, from Poplar, MT to Fort Buford, ND, 2026

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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.

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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". 

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Gray Zones: Unmaking the Myth of a Polarized Nation Features Photography By Nina Berman and Ron Haviv

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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.

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.

"Many prints in America the Beautiful feature various depictions of the American flag, many showing it as a symbol of identity, joy, and hope but also of oppression and violence...the interpretation of the flag depends on who's holding it.”

America The Beautiful is on exhibit through August 9, 2026.

Gabriela Campos: A camera, trust and time: Honoring the legacy of borderlands photojournalist Nick Oza

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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.”

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New Exhibit At Griffin Museum Includes Ashley Gilbertson and Mark Peterson

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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

Ashley Gilbertson

An Occupy Wall Street demonstrator is arrested on Broadway and Wall Street on November 17, 2011

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

Mark Peterson

“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.

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

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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.