Monroe Gallery of Photography specializes in 20th- and 21st-century photojournalism and humanist imagery—images that are embedded in our collective consciousness and which form a shared visual heritage for human society. They set social and political changes in motion, transforming the way we live and think—in a shared medium that is a singular intersectionality of art and journalism.
— Sidney and Michelle Monroe
While we admire the work of famed and influential artists of our time, we don’t often see images of the artists themselves. The Monroe Gallery’s Artists Behind the Art exhibition gives the viewer a peek at the people behind some of the 20th century’s most iconic works, including Picasso (1881-1973), Willem de Kooning (1904-1997), Man Ray (1890-1976), Henri Matisse (1869-1954), and many more, as seen through the eyes of a select group of photographers who were granted access to the studios and work spaces, galleries, and candid moments of the artists in their elements.
On such photographer is Steve Schapiro (1934-2022), whose work is part of the exhibition and who didn’t just capture high-profile artists and celebrities in his portfolio, he also bore witness to significant moments in American and civil rights history, a particular focus of his.
Some of those images are part of the exhibition, and in addition, the gallery is hosting two special screenings of the new documentary Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere at Sky Cinemas on Monday, December 29, and Tuesday, December 30. Both screenings will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Maura Smith, moderated by Michelle and Sid of Monroe Gallery. — B.S.
Artists Behind the Art; Through January 25, 2026, Monroe Gallery of Photography, 112 Don Gaspar; 505-992-0800; monroegallery.com
Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere; 7 p.m. Monday, December 29, and 5 p.m. Tuesday, December 30; Sky Cinemas, 1606 Alcaldesa Street; $16; 505-216-5678; santafe.violetcrown.com
View of the 2025 edition of AIPAD's Photography Show.
Photo Erica Price
The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) has named the 77 exhibitors that will participate in the upcoming edition of the Photography Show. The annual fair will return to the Park Avenue Armory in New York, running April 22–26.
This year’s fair will include a number of the world’s top photography-focused galleries, including Edwynn Houk Gallery, Yancey Richardson, Robert Mann Gallery, and Higher Pictures. First-time exhibitors, including Ruiz-Healy Art, Leica Gallery New York, and Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, will also feature in the fair.
The 2026 iteration of the fair will also focus on increasing its gender parity, per a release; a third of the exhibitors are women-led, women-founded, or both.
The fair will also introduce a new section, titled “Focal Point,” which will be dedicated to solo presentations for artists focused on lens-based photography to “showcase how artists have historically expanded our collective understanding of what photography is and how contemporary artists continue to show us what it can become,” per a release. This section of the fair will be designed by architecture firm Oficina.la.
Additionally, AIPAD will give artist, scholar, and NYU professor Deborah Willis its 2026 AIPAD Award, which will be presented during the VIP opening on April 22. A winner of both the MacArthur “Genius” Grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Willis joined NYU in 2000 and has chaired the Department of Photography and Imagining in the Tisch School of the Arts for nearly two decades. She is the author or editor of several landmark publications on Black photography, including Picturing Us: African American Identity in Photography (1996), Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers – 1840 to the Present (2000), and Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present (2009).
The full exhibitor list follows below.
Main Sector
Exhibitor Location(s) 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop New York, NY Alta Anyós, Andorra Augusta Edwards Fine Art London, UK Bildhalle Zurich, Switzerland | Amsterdam, the Netherlands Bruce Silverstein New York, NY Catherine Couturier Gallery Houston, TX Cavalier Galleries New York, NY | Greenwich, CT | Nantucket, MA | Palm Beach, FL Charles Isaacs Photographs New York, NY CLAMP New York, NY Curatorial Gallery London, United Kingdom Daniel / Oliver Gallery Brooklyn, NY Danziger Gallery New York, NY Deborah Bell Photographs New York, NY Echo Fine Arts Cannes, France Edwynn Houk Gallery New York, NY Form. Gallery Dinard, France Galerie Olivier Waltman Miami, FL | Paris, France Galerie XII Los Angeles, CA | Paris, France Galerie Esther Woerdehoff Paris, France Galerie Sophie Scheidecker Paris, France Gana Art Seoul, South Korea | Los Angeles, CA Gilman Contemporary Ketchum, ID Gitterman Gallery New York, NY Gregory Leroy Madrid, Spain HackelBury London, United Kingdom Hans P. Kraus Jr. Inc. New York, NY Higher Pictures Brooklyn, NY Holden Luntz Palm Beach, FL Howard Greenberg Gallery New York, NY The Hulett Collection Tulsa, OK IBASHO Antwerp, Belgium Ilaria Quadrani Fine Art New York, NY
IN-DEPENDANCE by IBASHO Antwerp, Belgium
INTHEGALLERY Copenhagen, Denmark | Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Jackson Fine Art Atlanta, GA
Janet Borden Inc. Brooklyn, NY jdc Fine Art San Diego, CA Keith de Lellis Gallery New York, NY LARGE GLASS London, UK Leica Gallery New York New York, NY Marshall Gallery Los Angeles, CA
Michael Hoppen London, United Kingdom Michael Shapiro Photographs Westport, CT Momentum Miami, FL Monroe Gallery of Photography Santa Fe, NM Nailya Alexander Gallery New York, NY Obscura Gallery Santa Fe, NM Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc. San Francisco, CA POLKA Galerie Paris, France Robert Klein Gallery Boston, MA Robert Koch Gallery San Francisco, CA Robert Mann Gallery New York, NY Rolf Gallery Buenos Aires, Argentina Ruiz-Healy Art New York, NY | San Antonio, TX Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd. Santa Fe, NM Scott Nichols Gallery Sonoma, CA Staley-Wise Gallery New York, NY Stephen Bulger Gallery Toronto, ON Stephen Daiter Gallery Chicago, IL Throckmorton Fine Art New York, NY Toluca Fine Art Paris, France Vasari Buenos Aires, Argentina Von Lintel Gallery Los Angeles, CA Yancey Richardson New York, NY
Focal Point Sector Exhibitor Location(s) Artist(s) Be Fine Art Gallery Chiayi and Taipei City, Taiwan Hsu-Pin Lee Central Server Works Los Angeles, CA Lenard Smith Duncan Miller Gallery Los Angeles, CA Jacqueline Woods ELLEPHANT Montreal, Quebec, Canada JJ Levine Glaz Gallery Moscow, Russia Zhenya Mironov Galerie Catherine et André Hug Paris, France Susan Burnstine L. Parker Stephenson Photographs New York, NY Ray Mortenson LAS Contemporary Nashville, TN Chrissy Lush M77 Gallery Milan, Italy Nino Migliori Obscura Gallery Santa Fe, NM Paul Caponigro + John Paul Caponigro Roland Belgrave Vintage Photography Ltd Brighton, UK Baud Postma SoMad New York, NY Yi Hsuan Lai Thomas Erben Gallery New York, NY Olivia Reavey
Assistant Chief Patrol Agent David Kim runs down an alleyway after a caravan of federal agents pulled up on people in southwest Chicago, Nov. 6, 2025. Photographs by Ashley Gilbertson/VII for Hammer & Hope
The immigrant catchers, faces covered, chase the workers down the street in broad daylight. The enemy is the landscaper, the day laborer, the high school student born in Mexico, Honduras, Venezuela. In the masks and guns of the federal agents, we see the riot gear of the Ferguson cops, the billy clubs of the Alabama state troopers, the Klansman’s hood. And in the brave crowds who gather to confront them, we see the power of solidarity. --click for full article
“That was my neighbor!” the woman screamed through tears at federal agents. “He’s just my neighbor!”
I tried to talk to the woman pictured above. She gave me permission to use her photograph, but she didn’t want to provide her name. Like so many people around ICE, she’s scared. Usually the stories I work on are filled with quotes, but the feds won’t talk to the press, and neither will anyone else. --Ashley Gilbertson
Women Photograph is proud to share our 2025 Year in Pictures — a collection of images that once again shows us a world on the brink of political turmoil, climate crisis, and an extensive range of human-made disasters. This year’s annual retrospective takes us from Malaysia to South Sudan to Peru, from the ongoing immigration raids happening across the U.S. to efforts to control the spread of malaria in Uganda. As our planet continued to emerge from the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic and wars raged on in Ukraine and Congo, we also were buoyed by images of birth, family, celebration, and connection. This year’s Year in Pictures was curated by Women Photograph board member and former National Geographic magazine editor Elizabeth Krist — you can pre-order the 2025 Women Photograph Annual here, and donate to Women Photograph here to support our ongoing work to diversify the visual media industry.
TRACY BARBUTES
A fired park ranger and friends hang an upside-down American flag from El Capitan (Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La), a granite monolith in Yosemite National Park, Calif., on February 22, 2025. This act of protest against the thousands of federal job cuts by the current administration coincided with the “firefall” event, which draws thousands of spectators and photographers annually.
The image went viral and ignited protests on public lands throughout the United States. I stood under El Cap—something I’d done hundreds of times—and as I documented the unfurling of that upside down flag, an act signaling distress, I couldn’t help but observe that we were gathered on colonized Indigenous land.
Shot shortly
before his passing by filmmaker Maura Smith, Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere
is a loving tribute to a man who was the quintessential "fly on the
wall," waiting for moments to unfold and capturing them with a naturalism
and skill that's nothing short of dazzling.
In this powerful episode of the Destinations Podcast, we sit down with Eugene Tapahe, a Navajo (Diné) artist, photographer and cultural storyteller whose work bridges healing, identity and the sacred connection to the land.
Tapahe shares his deeply moving journey growing up on the reservation, the origins of the Jingle Dress Healing Project and how Native traditions became a source of unity during COVID.
From sand installations made with soil from across the world to protecting sacred lands and preserving Indigenous identity, this conversation is an inspiring reflection on resilience, spirituality and cultural preservation.
We stand at scenic overlooks and lift our lens to capture a post card view that, of course, looks better on a postcard. It’s not about gear, or the 10,000 hours. It’s simply that almost any photograph is improved by having people in it—a lesson TIME’s Top 100 Photographs of 2025 underscores in images that capture not only a year, but also the faint but discernable shadow cast by a less human future.
The moments photojournalists document tend to be most visible on faces: the panic of a fallen runner about to be spiked, the anguish in an immigrant in a headlock, a smiling Buddha toppled in a quake. Robots (in a footrace, at a bedside) serve as comic relief partly because they have no faces. But, as machines, they carry the same ambiguous edge as artificial intelligence. In Ahmedabad, the tail section of an Air India flight juts from a building like a paper airplane that sailed in and stuck. And in Portland, Ore., sworn agents of the United States government all but disappear inside red smoke, body armor and gas masks. — Karl Vick
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani talks to the press and meets with supporters at a park in Midtown Manhattan, on Oct. 28. Mark Peterson—Redux
Monroe Gallery of Photography announces a new exhibit “Artists Behind The Art”. The exhibition opens with a public reception Friday, November 28 from 5 – 7 pm, and you can kick off the Holiday Season at the Holiday Plaza Lighting!
The exhibit continues through January 25, 2026.
Many of the most influential artists of the past century are, in a sense, unseen. This exhibition shows us the human beings behind some of the 20th century's most vital works of art. The photographs range from posed, candid, and working shots to behind the scenes of artists at work. In these photographs the essential personality of the artist is revealed, and an image of the past becomes visual history.
Artists depicted in the exhibit include Richard Avedon, Francis Bacon, Alexander Calder, Judy Chicago, Willem De Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Rene Magritte, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Georgia O’Keeffe, Andy Warhol, Andrew Wyeth, and many more.
Fall of Freedom is an urgent call to the arts community to unite in defiance of authoritarian forces sweeping the nation. Our Democracy is under attack. Threats to free expression are rising. Dissent is being criminalized. Institutions and media have been recast as mouthpieces of propaganda.
In solidarity with of Fall Of Freedom, Monroe Gallery presents a Pop Up exhibit now Online and in the Gallery November 18 - 23 of photographs documenting people struggling for their freedom; their right to live without fear, their right to speak and the right to protest inequities.
