George Eastman Museum acquires prints by Mark Peterson and Bing Guan

 September 8, 2025

The George Eastman Museum has acquired prints by Mark Peterson and Bing Guan for their permanent collection.

Mark Peterson: Waiting for election results at a Trump watch party at the Palm Beach Convention Center, November, 2024

Bing Guan: New York Police officers in riot gear enter Hamilton Hall at Columbia University, New York, April 30, 2024

Mark Peterson is a photographer based in New York City. His work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Time, Fortune, National Geographic, Geo Magazine and other national and international publications. In 2018 he was awarded the W. Eugene Smith grant for his work on White Nationalism. This photograph was published in The New York Times and selected as one of the "photos that defined 2024."

Bing Guan 管秉宸  is a Chinese American  photographer and journalist. He is based between New York City and Southern California. He is currently an adjunct professor of photography at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. Bing is a regular contributor to Reuters, Bloomberg, and The New York Times. 

The George Eastman Museum is located in Rochester, New York, on the estate of George Eastman, the pioneer of popular photography and motion picture film. Founded in 1947 as an independent nonprofit institution, it is the world’s oldest photography museum and one of the oldest film archives. The museum holds unparalleled collections—encompassing several million objects—in the fields of photography, cinema, and photographic and cinematographic technology, and photographically illustrated books. The institution is also a longtime leader in film preservation and photographic conservation.

"Throughout its history, our institution has collected and exhibited photographs and films that address timely and timeless topics."

In an era dominated by misinformation and digital manipulation, photojournalism plays a vital role in restoring trust and authenticity in media. Verified images serve as undeniable evidence of events, countering false narratives and providing clarity in a world overwhelmed by conflicting information. This power makes photojournalism an indispensable tool in the fight against fake news.

Watch Refractions: A Conversation with Sidney S. Monroe and Michelle A. Monroe

 Via B&H Photo Refractions

September 4, 2025

About Stephen Mallon

Stephen Mallon is a photographer and filmmaker who specializes in the industrial-scale creations of mankind at unusual moments of their life cycles. 

Mallon’s work blurs the line between documentary and fine art, revealing the industrial landscape to be unnatural, desolate and functional yet simultaneously also human, surprising and inspiring. It has been featured in publications and by broadcasters including Smithsonian Magazine, The New York Times, National Geographic, NBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Daily Mail, MSNBC, PBS, GQ, CBS, the London Times and Vanity Fair. Mallon has exhibited in cities including Miami, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, St. Louis and New York, as well as in England and Italy. 

Stephen’s project following the MTA’a artificial reef project where over 2000 subway cars were placed in the Atlantic was shown at The New York Transit Museum’s Grand Central Terminal Gallery. Over 60,000 people experienced the exhibition and was featured by Gothamist, Artnet, Yahoo, Fox News, and numerous other outlets. 

As David Schonauer wrote in Pro Photo Daily, “Mallon’s word harkens back to the heroic industrial landscapes of Margaret Bourke-White and Charles Sheeler, who glorified American steel and found art in its industrial muscle and smoke during the Great Depression.” He has also been compared to photographers including Edward Burtynsky, Thomas Struth and Chris Jordan. 

Mallon served as a board member of the New York chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers from 2002 until 2020 and served as president from 2006 to 2009. He is represented by Front Room Gallery in New York.

Eugene Tapahe Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project Exhibit Extended

 

Drawing thousands of attendees and counting, the important exhibition by artist Eugene Tapahe titled Art Heals: The Jingle Dress Project has been extended through September 28, 2025. 

Word of mouth and the recent article in Pasatiempo: Standing On Ceremony. has sparked tremendous enthusiasm, with many guests making repeated visits and an overwhelming number of requests to extend the exhibit for school groups and those who have not yet seen the exhibit.

The public response to the exhibition has been overwhelming, with viewers visibly moved by the powerful photographs that have raised awareness of many Native American issues, such as land acknowledgment, women’s rights, and, most importantly, the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). 

View the exhibit on-line here.

Read the article in Hot Mirror: "Eugene Tapahe's photographs from his Art Heals project commanded attention—not merely for their striking colors juxtaposed against nature's beauty, but for the profound story they tell."




 

Lowrider Culture in the United States Exhibit Features Photographs By Gabriela Campos

 Via Smithsonian

 La Raza Park, 1980, photo Lou DeMatteis/Española, New Mexico, 2017, photo Gabriela E. Campos/Newark, Cal., 2020, photo Amanda Lopez*

Corazón y vida : Lowriding Culture is appearing at The Smithsonian Museum of American History opening September 26, 2025

MUZEO Museum and Cultural Center , Anaheim, California - 9/13/2025 - 12/14/2025


Lowriding is a quintessential Latino/a tradition started by Mexican American communities in the 1940s to assert their space and empower their lives. This unique car-making tradition is infused with Latino/a soul, entrepreneurship, and ingenuity. A mix of innovation and tradition, lowriding is an affirmation of identity and values that have reached beyond the United States to influence popular culture worldwide.

Lowrider Culture in the United States / Cultura Lowrider en los Estados Unidos is a new exhibition from the Smithsonian that will highlight a diverse selection of vibrant photographs and prints depicting lowrider culture and iconography while documenting its styles in the United States.

This traveling exhibition is based on research from the Smithsonian and will include objects from lowriding art and trade. Audiences will encounter a multifaceted picture of the American experience by learning about the Latino/a community identity through the lens of lowriding and its rich stories of creativity, family, and tradition. Lowrider Culture will examine the history of the post-World War II Mexican American community and the cultural expressions of lowriding through technology, innovation, and style.

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

Holy Thursday Visit to Santuario De Chimayo, Chimayo, New Mexico, 2022

Photo by Gabriela Campos

Lowrider Culture in the United States / Cultura Lowrider en los Estados Unidos will launch in 2025 and tour through 2028. Venues and dates here.




ArtDaily: Lowrider exhibitions set to cruise into the Smithsonian

Lowrider exhibitions set to cruise into the Smithsonian

Lowrider Culture in the United States / Cultura Lowrider en los Estados Unidos

Tracy Barbutes Photographs Yosemite Protest Rally For The SF Standard

Via The San Francisco Standard

August 25, 2025

At the rally on Sunday, people sign the same trans pride flag that Joslin and others helped hang on El Cap earlier this year. | Source:Tracy Barbutes for The Standard

Protesters rally in Yosemite for ranger fired over hanging trans pride flag

The Yosemite community has been reeling since Shannon "SJ" Joslin’s firing. --Click to read full article

"...then an upside-down U.S. flag in February to protest the NPS budget cuts. None of the people who hung those flags faced consequences. That upside-down flag garnered international attention and showed the power of El Capitan as a symbol"

An upside-down American flag hangs from El Capitan near Yosemite National Park’s Horsetail Falls to protest the thousands of federal job cuts made by President Donald Trump’s administration, February 22, 2025

©Tracy Barbutes

Related: Throughout history, flags have elevated the emotional impact of images.

Remembering Hurricane 20 Years Later: Photographs By Stephen Wilkes

Stephen Wilkes: In Katrina's Wake: TV in sand

Katrina formed on August 23, 2005. It entered the Gulf of Mexico on August 26 and rapidly intensified to a Category 5 hurricane before weakening to a Category 3 at its landfall on August 29 near Buras-Triumph, Louisiana.

Katrina was one of the most devastating hurricanes in the history of the United States. It is the deadliest hurricane to strike the United States since the Palm Beach-Lake Okeechobee hurricane of September 1928. It produced catastrophic damage - estimated at $75 billion in the New Orleans area and along the Mississippi coast - and is the costliest U. S. hurricane on record. Stephen Wilkes photographed the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Have we forgotten Katrina's lessons?

View the exhibition online here.

The Alabaster Grave: Book Signing and Artist Talk With Cengiz Yar August 23

 We are delighted to welcome Cengiz Yar for a book signing and talk this Saturday, August 23 at 5 PM - free!

This Alabaster Grave is Cengiz Yar’s first monograph exploring the overwhelming destruction and pain faced by the Iraqi city of Mosul, within the context of its history and unique, now largely ruined, architecture. The book questions the cost of the fight against ISIS and global war on terror as told through the lives and city that bore the brunt of its destructive force.

Cengiz is a documentary photographer and editor based in El Paso, Texas who has worked in visual journalism for over a decade, from reporting in the field to building groundbreaking online packages. He is currently a visuals editor at ProPublica, where he edits, photographs, and art-directs stories across the site.

Tracy Barbutes' Transgender Pride Flag Photograph Leads NY Times Article

 Via The New York Times

August 18, 2025

A transgender pride flag was unfurled by Shannon Joslin and other demonstrators on El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, Calif., in May.Credit...Tracy Barbutes, via Reuters

Yosemite Biologist Who Hung Trans Pride Flag From El Capitan Is Fired

The National Park Service terminated Shannon Joslin over the May 20 demonstration, which it said took place in a prohibited area and lacked the required permits. -Click for full article

On February 22, 2025 – almost exactly 80 years to the day after Joe Rosenthal’s Iwo Jima Photograph - Tracy Barbutes photographed an inverted American flag — historically used as a sign of distress — off the side of El Capitan, a towering rock formation in Yosemite National Park, hung to protest the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Park Service.

©Tracy Barbutes

A Period in Time by Ed Kashi: A Legacy of Photography Shaping How We See the World

 Via Photography Zilla

August 16, 2025

"A Period in Time by Ed Kashi” arrives less as a conventional retrospective and more as a living dossier: over 200 photographs spanning 1977–2022, paired with essays and field dispatches that place the photographer’s eye directly within history. Published by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, the book consolidates a career-long commitment to bearing witness — a clear reminder that archives and books can do more than preserve images; they can teach, provoke, and inspire future photo storytellers.

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Save the Date: October 3, 2025 Ed Kashi A Period in Time Gallery talk and book signing 5-7 pm at Monroe Gallery of Photography. Exhibit continues through November 16, 2025. 

Art Heals

 Via The Santa Fe New Mexican

August 17, 2025

"...that’s exactly why I documented the project: the educational purpose behind it is important. It needs to be shared; it’s healing for everyone."  Eugene Tapahe

"Art heals.

There it is. You can quit reading.

Instead, find Carolyn’s column on Page 7 of our hefty, glossy-covered 92-page Pasa magazine that came out Friday — the one with Native photographer Eugene Tapahe’s (Diné) stunning visual on the cover, courtesy of the Monroe Gallery of Photography." 

--Bill Church is executive editor at The Santa Fe New Mexican.

Read the Pasatiempo Magazine article here.