5 photographs by Mark Peterson selected for the American Photography juried award annual

 Via American Photography

 5 photographs by Mark Peterson have been selected for the American Photography juried award annual.

American Photography is a prestigious, jury-selected annual book and competition hosted by American Illustration - American Photography (AI-AP) celebrating the best commissioned and personal photography from across the Americas

Since 1985 the American Photography jury-selected image collections reveal the resilience and depth of humanity with courage and truth. From joy to anguish, from beauty and despair, we honor the year’s best work and the makers who bring these stories to life for publications, campaigns and galleries worldwide in hardcover glory.

Gallery Photographer Bing Guan Covers Brooklyn Building Collapse For The NY Times

 Via The New York Times

November 12, 2026

Gallery photographer Bing Guan covered the tragic Brooklyn Building Collapse For The NY Times

The Washington Post Employed About 35 Staff Photographers in 1996. Since February 4, 2026, It Has Employed None.

Via Fstoppers

November 11, 2026

"The Post still runs pictures, from wire services, from freelancers it commissions one assignment at a time, and from a photojournalism fellow, Maxine Wallace, whose Post photo credits have continued through 2026. What ended on February 4 was the staff photographer, the standing job whose whole purpose was to go out and make them...

The feed being asked to stand in for the Post's picture desk is cutting its own photo editors, and the number of American photo editors standing between a frame and a front page is falling on both sides of the transaction...

That leaves the freelancer. When the Columbia Journalism Review surveyed 30 freelance photojournalists in 2017 about pay and treatment at major outlets, the day rate they reported for the Post was $350. Assume generously that it has moved since. The structure of the problem has not.

To gross the $132,000 that the bottom of the Post's own staff band implies, a stringer billing $350 a day needs 378 billing days. There are 365 in a year..." --full article here

Photography at 200: Why the camera still matters in the age of AI

 Via The Financial Times

November 10, 2026

"Photography survives because at its core there is something essentially simple, endlessly adaptable and, yes, a little magical. Glance at your smartphone. Sure, it’s a marvel of globally networked, algorithmically driven technology, but in its corner is a lens. Tap your screen and the world as light floods in. Photography’s earliest pioneers would recognise it instantly. For all the changes and new potentials, what remains compelling are the ways a camera can bring image-making so close to eyesight.

It’s the stillness and the silence that matters, at least to photographers. From the noise and flow of life, a choice can be made. This moment. This rectangle of space. But stillness and silence also make photography endlessly useful and applicable. You can add writing or speech to make the image do things it cannot do on its own. Tell stories. Sell ideas and commodities. Aspire to the condition of art, or evidence. Celebrate, or denounce. Affirm what passes for normal, or challenge it. Prompt memory, or even replace it."  --full article here

Santa Fe galleries winter 2026 shows celebrate the City Different’s creativity

 

Via The Santa Fe New Mexican Winter Life

November 8, 2026

Alfred Eisenstaedt/Life Picture Collection

Winston Churchill, Liverpool, 1951

MONROE GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHY


This downtown gallery kicks off its 25th year in Santa Fe with a major exhibition of classic and seldom-seen photographs spanning the career and life of legendary photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898–1995), known as the father of modern photojournalism. Opening November 27 and on view through January 31, the exhibition showcases the gallery’s specialization in 20th- and 21st-century photojournalism and humanist imagery and kicks off a year of exhibitions celebrating creative relationships that have defined the gallery’s program for more than two dozen years. Gallery owners Sidney and Michelle Monroe first met “Eisie,” as he preferred to be called, in New York City in the mid-1980s and helped organize and present the first gallery exhibition of his photographs in 1989. The encounter sparked a new path for them, and they created their eponymous gallery to uplift, support, and preserve the work of photojournalists at a time when photography was still striving to receive recognition in the art world. They continue to represent Eisenstaedt’s archives and are acknowledged experts on his life and career as one of the most published photojournalists in the world, whose iconic images included the first meeting of Hitler and Mussolini, Albert Einstein teaching at Princeton, Churchill’s campaign and reelection, and V-J Day in Times Square, perhaps his signature photograph. The 1945 image reflects his keen sense of spontaneity. — compiled by AMB


112 Don Gaspar Ave. 505-992-0800 monroegallery.com

Public Opening Reception Friday, Nov. 27, 5-7 PM