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Concrete metaphysics by Giovanni Maria Sacco

“Concrete Metaphysics” is a fascinating and unusual metaphysical journey through Italy. Metaphysics concerns what lies beyond the physical universe we perceive. It can only be expressed through metaphors. In this book, the camera becomes a tool for creating them and, as the title suggests through an oxymoron, for describing a concrete metaphysics. Black-and-white photographs, many of which are large-format, depict mysterious and unsettling places. These include Tresigallo’s rationalist ide

The Position of Ideals by Jonathan Lei

This project examines how ideals find their place within systems built on order and stability, and how that position quietly shifts over decades. Through my father’s experience, it considers how historical conditions and inherited expectations shape personal ambition.My father began his career in the later years of China’s planned economy, when employment was shaped by state allocation. Having studied art, he entered a stable profession that offered security and a recognised path of responsi

Bristol Photo Festival 2026: Time Machine

From 14 to 18 October 2026, Bristol Photo Festival opens its third edition with a city-wide programme of contemporary photography exhibitions, talks, tours and special events. The international biennial has announced 16 major exhibitions and a landmark historical exhibition, presented across Bristol's leading museums, galleries, art centres, historic buildings and independent spaces. Following the success of its second edition in 2024, which attracted more than 115,000 visitors, the festival bri

South of Pico by Pieter de Koninck

Pico Boulevard is a street you pass through, not a street you stop on. That has always been its unofficial purpose, and its quiet indignity. I live south of Pico, in the flatlands between the freeway and the ocean that Santa Monica and Venice share without quite acknowledging. This is not the West Side that appears in real estate listings. It is the West Side of the Ocean Park Lock & Key kiosk, of the Palm Motel with its collection of international flags, of Pancho’s Tacos and George’s Burge

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VI Barcelona Human Rights International Photo Festival

Deadline: October 14, 2026
Barcelona Human Rights International Photo Festival

What winners receive The ten projects selected by the jury will be exhibited during the festival on the streets of Barcelona and will be featured in the catalogue and the magazine of the festival.The best of the ten projects will receive a prize of 3,000 euros as the winner of the competition and its category, and 400 euros for each winner of the other categories. About Más Retina Organized by Más Retina, an organization that promotes journalism and visual arts as tools to advance human rights,

LensCulture Black and White Photography Award 2026

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Deadline: October 14, 2026
LensCulture

The LensCulture Black & White Photography Awards 2026 is an international photography competition celebrating the expressive possibilities of monochrome imagery. Organized by LensCulture, the award invites photographers to submit compelling black-and-white work ranging from classic photographic approaches and darkroom processes to digital and experimental practices. Photographers may enter either individual images or a cohesive series, with series submissions allowing up to 10 photographs presen

Travel: Around the World 2026 Grid Photo Gallery

Deadline: October 15, 2026
Grid Photo Gallery

Grid Photo Gallery presents Travel: Around the World 2026, an international open call dedicated to photographic works that explore places, movement, culture, landscape, and the many ways we experience the world through photography. The theme welcomes a broad interpretation of travel photography, including distant landscapes, dense cities, remote territories, familiar streets, cultural spaces, routes, borders, interiors, and environments shaped by movement or belonging. Images may focus on iconic

HIPA: Water, Our Shared Stories

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Deadline: October 15, 2026
Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award

Water is experienced differently across people, communities and environments. Photography has the power to make these experiences visible - documenting challenges, celebrating solutions and connecting global conversations to real human stories. In collaboration with the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the 2026 United Nations Water Conference, the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA) invites photographers from around the world to contribute to this

Megalopolitan Art Gallery: Faces

Deadline: October 15, 2026
Megalopolitan Art Gallery

Megalopolitan Art Gallery invites artists worldwide to submit their work for the upcoming online art exhibition Faces. The competition is dedicated to portraits and faces, capturing the identity, emotion, personality and presence of people. Artists are encouraged to explore the face through realistic, expressive, conceptual, abstract, or experimental approaches. The call is open to all artists aged 18 and older, regardless of location, and both emerging and established artists are encouraged to

2026 Lucie Scholarship Program

Deadline: October 15, 2026
Lucie Foundation

The Lucie Foundation is proud to support professional and emerging talent with vision and dynamic ideas that challenge and progress the art form of still photography into work that compels. Our support of photography is broad, from Fine Art to Documentary and Photojournalism, to digital and film-based works. Our concern is to support photographers producing work that is at once gripping, and original. The Lucie Foundation is pleased to offer four cash grants and a variety of prizes to support th

Black Portraiture[s] : Memphis

Deadline: October 15, 2026
Memphis Art Museum + the National Civil Rights Museum

This iteration of Black Portraiture[s] convenes for the first time in the American South, bringing together an intergenerational gathering of pioneering photographers, scholars, curators, and thinkers to explore the enduring legacy and expansive futures of Black photographic practices. Coinciding with what is widely recognized as the bicentennial of the world’s earliest surviving permanent photograph, made in 1827 by French photographer Nicéphore Niépce, this conference centers the studio not me

Les Mesnographies: FOCUS #7 Open Call 2026

Deadline: October 15, 2026
Les Mesnographies

For its 7th edition, Mesnographies is launching its annual call for applications around the concept of happiness. What is happiness? Is it a goal, a state to be reached? Does it lie within us, or do we build it over time? « Happiness is a positive emotion which is experienced as being pleasant and sometimes activating. Amongst the so-called universal emotions, happiness is one of the most desirable. It does not only arise in response to doing or receiving something, but also from a sense of conn

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Carolyn Monastra: Mystery in the Natural World

Sep 01, 2026 – Oct 15, 2026

Susan Eley Fine Art
Hudson, NY, United States

Susan Eley Fine Art presents Carolyn Monastra: Mystery in the Natural World, featured as the gallery's "Artist Focus" from 1 September through 15 October 2026. The exhibition highlights Monastra's alluring landscape photographs, drawn from a practice that has focused for two decades on creating and discovering mystery in the natural world. She uses photography, video, sound, public art, and community-engagement to address environmental issues and examine humans' relationship with our ecosystems.

Thomas Ruff: jpegs ny

Sep 10, 2026 – Oct 17, 2026

David Zwirner New York Chelsea
New York, NY, United States

Thomas Ruff: jpegs ny at David Zwirner’s 533 West 19th Street gallery presents twelve large-scale photographs drawn from the artist’s jpegs series. On view from September 10 through October 17, 2026, the exhibition marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks and frames Ruff’s work as both a commemoration and a meditation on the unstable life of images. Ruff was in New York on September 11, 2001, and photographed the attacks and their aftermath. When he returned to Germany s

Unglee: Le souvenir du temps

Sep 10, 2026 – Oct 17, 2026

David Peter Francis
New York, NY, United States

Unglee: Le souvenir du temps at David Peter Francis presents the first U.S. solo exhibition by the French artist Unglee, whose work moves between photography, film, performance and self-invention. On view from September 10 through October 17, 2026, the show focuses on two long-term bodies of work: photographs of the art agent and collector Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, made over fifteen years, and images of the photographer Alix Cléo Roubaud, a close friend who died in 1983 at the age of 31. Ungl

Tania Franco Klein: RAGE™

Sep 10, 2026 – Oct 17, 2026

Yancey Richardson Gallery
New York, NY, United States

Tania Franco Klein: RAGE™ at Yancey Richardson turns anger into a visual system rather than a simple emotion. On view from September 10 to October 17, 2026, the exhibition marks Franco Klein’s debut solo show with the gallery and extends her interest in the uneasy overlap between psychology, media and public life. Her new series treats rage as both symptom and construct. The photographs and videos draw on the language of advertising, cinema and news imagery, but they do not settle into quotat

Manuel Álvarez Bravo

Sep 10, 2026 – Oct 17, 2026

Yancey Richardson Gallery
New York, NY, United States

Manuel Álvarez Bravo, on view at Yancey Richardson from September 10 to October 17, 2026, presents a selection of iconic photographs by the legendary Mexican artist, coinciding with RAGE, the gallery's exhibition of new work by Tania Franco Klein. Considered one of the most important photographers in the history of the medium, Álvarez Bravo (1902–2002) is regarded as a towering figure both in Mexico and in the history of Modernism in Latin America. With photographs that range from nudes, still l

No Other Place to Go

Sep 04, 2026 – Oct 17, 2026

InLiquid Gallery
Philadelphia, PA, United States

No Other Place to Go, on view at InLiquid Gallery from September 4 through October 17, gathers five photographers whose work confronts the psychological weight of climate change. Guest curated by Katie Tackman, the exhibition positions photography not merely as documentation but as a medium where evidence and emotion converge, shaping how environmental realities are seen, remembered, and acted upon. Anita Allyn, an interdisciplinary artist and professor at The College of New Jersey, treats la

Steve McCurry: Adagio

Sep 10, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026

Leica Store New York Meatpacking
New York, NY, United States

Leica Gallery New York presents Steve McCurry: Adagio, on view from 10 September through 18 October 2026, an exhibition that draws on the photographer's new book of the same name, published as part of the Leica Libretto series. The show brings together a selection of McCurry's most celebrated images—many previously unpublished—alongside a new body of work commissioned by Leica Camera USA. Adagio, a musical term for a slow tempo, serves as a metaphor for McCurry's practice, reflecting what he des

Ilse Bing Between Paris and New York

Jun 05, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026

Chrysler Museum of Art
Norfolk, VA, United States

The Chrysler Museum of Art brings renewed attention to a singular modernist vision with Ilse Bing Between Paris and New York, an exhibition tracing the transatlantic journey of a photographer who shaped the visual language of the twentieth century. Running from June 5 to October 18, 2026 at the Frank Photography Gallery, the presentation draws on the museum’s rich holdings to examine how Ilse Bing navigated two of the era’s most dynamic urban centers. Curated by Mia Laufer, the selection places

Andy Warhol Family Album

Apr 30, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026

Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY, United States

At the Whitney Museum of American Art, Andy Warhol Family Album offers a revealing look into the artist’s private and social universe through a selection of Polaroids made between 1972 and 1973. On view from April 30 to October 19, 2026, the exhibition gathers hundreds of images drawn from one of six Holson “family albums” assembled by Andy Warhol as part of his personal archive. The presentation highlights photography not as a secondary practice, but as a central tool in Warhol’s understanding

Paths That Cross: Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Lynn Davis

Sep 18, 2026 – Oct 21, 2026

Weinstein Hammons Gallery
Minneapolis, MN, United States

Weinstein Hammons Gallery presents Paths That Cross: Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Lynn Davis, on view from 18 September through 1 November 2026, bringing together a rare constellation of works that trace decades of artistic exchange between three figures who shaped one another's trajectories. The exhibition takes its title from a song Smith wrote for Sam Wagstaff, Mapplethorpe's lover and patron, who died in 1987, two years before Mapplethorpe himself succumbed to AIDS-related complicat

Alistair Corden: What is Left Behind

Oct 14, 2026 – Oct 22, 2026

Multiple Exposures Gallery
Alexandria, VA, United States

Multiple Exposures Gallery presents What Is Left Behind, a fine art photography exhibition by Alistair Corden, on view from 13 October through 22 November 2026. The gallery is located in Studio 7 at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, 105 North Union Street, Alexandria, Virginia, and is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. An opening reception for Corden and fellow new member artist Anice Hoachlander takes place on Saturday, 24 October, from 2 to 4 p.m. What Is Left Behind takes viewers through the

Anice Hoachlander: Living Geometry

Oct 14, 2026 – Oct 22, 2026

Multiple Exposures Gallery
Alexandria, VA, United States

Multiple Exposures Gallery presents Living Geometry, a fine art photography exhibition by Anice Hoachlander, on view from 13 October through 22 November 2026. The gallery is located in Studio 7 at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, 105 North Union Street, Alexandria, Virginia, and is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. An opening reception for Hoachlander and fellow new member artist Alistair Corden takes place on Saturday, 24 October, from 2 to 4 p.m. Living Geometry looks closely at the natural

The Long Lives We Carry

Sep 25, 2026 – Oct 23, 2026

CCAC - Clifton Cultural Arts Center
Cincinnati, OH, United States

The Long Lives We Carry at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center brings together the work of Gordon Baer and Jano Rečo in a compact but pointed exhibition about aging, care and the quiet realities of institutional life. On view from September 25 to October 23, 2026, the show is curated by Saad Ghosn, founder and president of SOS Art. Baer, a Cincinnati-based photojournalist active for decades, focused much of his work on people often left outside the frame. His photographs of his Aunt Beck in her

Guillaume Zuili: When the Sun Goes Down

Sep 17, 2026 – Oct 24, 2026

solo.
San Pedro, CA, United States

Solo. presents Guillaume Zuili: When the Sun Goes Down, on view through 24 October 2026, showcasing select prints from the photographer's acclaimed high desert landscapes dating from 2021. The exhibition highlights Zuili's mastery of Lith printing, a creative process using vintage black-and-white darkroom printing papers that produces warm sepia tones and minimal compositions with a timeless, cinematic quality. Born in Paris in 1965, Zuili has lived and worked in Los Angeles since 2001, focus

David Lynch: LA

Sep 18, 2026 – Oct 24, 2026

Pace Gallery Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, United States

David Lynch: LA at Pace Gallery places the artist’s photographs back in the city that shaped much of his imagination. On view from September 18 through October 24, 2026, the exhibition marks the first presentation of Lynch’s work in Los Angeles since his death in 2025, and it does so with an unusually clear focus: five photographic series shown together for the first time, each one extending the atmosphere that runs through his films, paintings and sound work. Lynch lived in Los Angeles for m

Lee Friedlander: Maria

Sep 10, 2026 – Oct 24, 2026

Fraenkel Gallery
San Francisco, CA, United States

Lee Friedlander: Maria presents a seven-decade portrait of the photographer’s wife, companion and most persistent subject. On view from September 10 through October 24, 2026, the exhibition gathers approximately 50 photographs made from the 1950s to the 2020s, following a relationship through marriage, parenthood, grandparenthood and the quieter years that come after. Maria appears in the ordinary settings of shared life: reading, driving, talking on the telephone, resting in the sun or absor

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Lisa Cutler: The Hook

Lisa Cutler | May 2026 – Kehrer Verlag

A Photographic Journey Through Red Hook, Brooklyn.Lisa Cutler: The Hook offers an intimate and atmospheric journey into Red Hook, a Brooklyn neighborhood defined by layers of history, shifting identities, and a persistent sense of resilience.

Marching West: The Los Angeles Civil Rights Movement in Photographs

Karin L. Stanford with Mark Speltz | Jun 2026 – Getty Publications

Edward Burtynsky: Anthropocene

Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal & Nicholas de Pencier | Jun 2026 – Steidl

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen: Step by Step

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen | Sep 2026 – Dewi Lewis

Inbal Abergil: The Presence of Absence

Inbal Abergil | Nov 2025 – Kehrer Verlag

Newsha Tavakolian: And They Laughed at Me

Newsha Tavakolian | Sep 2026 – Kehrer Verlag

Jo Ann Chaus: Unspoken

Jo Ann Chaus | Sep 2026 – Kehrer Verlag

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Eve Arnold: All about Eve

By Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof

Events

From Hollywood stars and political figures to children, workers, fashion models and people living in some of the most remote places in the world, Eve Arnold spent more than five decades looking closely at people. Her photographs are often intimate, sometimes quiet and occasionally unexpected, but they are rarely distant. For Arnold, photography was not simply about recording what was happening in front of her. It was a way of getting closer to people and trying to understand them. From 19 Sep

Book Review: Find Me Paradise by Benita Suchodrev

By Sandrine Hermand-Grisel

Publications

“Paradise — if it exists — appears only in fragments, in shards, in disturbances, in moments that flicker and disappear before we can hold them.” Benita Suchodrev’s line is perhaps the closest thing Find Me Paradise has to an instruction. I found myself doing exactly that: moving through the book in fragments, returning to it, stopping, starting again. There are photography books that tell you where you are, when the photographs were made, and what you are supposed to understand from them.

Remember Me: Picturing African Americans in Early Photography

By National Gallery of Art

Events

Remember Me: Picturing African Americans in Early Photography is an important exhibition that looks at one of the most powerful roles photography has played: the ability to shape how people are seen, remembered, and represented. Bringing together around 70 works from the National Gallery of Art’s collection, the exhibition offers a rich and nuanced look at African American life, identity, ambition, and community through photography from the 19th and early 20th centuries. At a time when photogra

Book Review: Africatown by Ave Pildas

By Sandrine Hermand-Grisel

Publications

I first discovered Ave Pildas's work through his submissions to AAP Magazine, where he was selected as a winner. Since then, I have continued to discover his incredible work through his other submissions, our interview about his book Star Struck, and Bijou Thoughts, a project we also presented on All About Photo. Over the years, I have also had the pleasure of getting to know Ave through our exchanges, and his warmth, kindness, humor, and liveliness have always come through. Looking at Africatow

Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen: Step by Step

By Dewi Lewis Publishing

Publications

Step by Step (1982–1989) by Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen is a tender, revealing portrait of girls, mothers, and a close-knit dancing community in North Shields, in the North East of England. Made over six years, the project follows a generation of young dancers as they grow from childhood into adolescence and adulthood, capturing not only the discipline and excitement of dance, but also the hopes, doubts, friendships, family ties, and social realities that shape their lives beyond

The School of Los Angeles: Herb Ritts, Greg Gorman, and Matthew Rolston

By Fahey/Klein Gallery

Events

Fahey/Klein Gallery is proud to present The School of Los Angeles, an exhibition bringing together the work of Herb Ritts, Greg Gorman, and Matthew Rolston—three photographers who came of age in Southern California in the late 1970s and went on to redefine the way celebrities, personalities, and public figures were photographed. Working within the same creative landscape, each developed a very different way of seeing. Together, they reshaped the traditions of glamour and portraiture, creating

Scott Nichols Gallery: Group f/64 and Their Contemporaries

By Scott Nichols Gallery

Events

Group f/64 and Their Contemporaries brings together an exceptional selection of photographs connected to one of the most important developments in American photography. Formed in California in 1932, Group f/64 represented a decisive move away from the soft-focus, painterly aesthetic of Pictorialism, which had dominated much of artistic photography in the early twentieth century. The photographers associated with f/64 argued for a more direct approach, embracing sharp focus, precise compositio

Book Review: The Presence of Absence by Inbal Abergil

By Sandrine Hermand-Grisel

Publications

Before I begin, I’d like to take a moment to express my gratitude to publishers in general and to Kehrer Verlag in particular, for continuing to give us the opportunity to explore the work of so many great photographers—whether we are rediscovering artists we thought we already knew or discovering new ones. Thank you for giving photography lovers the opportunity to discover new work and new stories, to see the world from different perspectives, and to experience emotions through images printe

Gordon Parks: Voices in the Mirror

By Jack Shainman Gallery

Events

Jack Shainman Gallery presents Voices in the Mirror, a significant exhibition that returns to the photographs of Gordon Parks through the memories and reflections of the people and families who stood in front of his camera. Bringing together photographs, firsthand accounts, and personal recollections, the exhibition offers a new way of looking at some of Parks’ most enduring images—this time through the voices of those who lived them. Marking the 20th anniversary of The Gordon Parks Foundatio

Between States by Gaja Klapucka

By Sandrine Hermand-Grisel

Photographers

These photographs were made during solitary winter walks between late December 25’ and early January 26’ . After a long period away from making images, walking became a way to re-enter attention - to notice light, surface, reflection, and the quiet traces of people moving through shared spaces. The work follows a gradual shift from presence to absence, and back again, allowing meaning to emerge through restraint rather than resolution. Structured as a visual play in three acts - Leavin

Where the Air is Still and the Dust is Thick by Sublunar

By Sublunar

Photographers

Scattered among the built environments of every civilization, forgotten doorways keep the ghosts of its past contained in silent obscurity. History itself lingers on through windows which have been caked with dirt and the passing of time. What secrets lie hidden in the darkness waiting to be told? What does the present have to learn from the past? And what kind of adventures are in store for those willing to experience them? In this long-term photographic project, I embark upon a multi-facete

Book Review: Marching West: The Los Angeles Civil Rights Movement in Photographs

By Sandrine Hermand-Grisel

Publications

Marching West: The Los Angeles Civil Rights Movement in Photographs invites readers to reconsider the familiar map of American civil rights history. When we think about the movement, we often picture Selma, Birmingham, Montgomery, and the iconic photographs associated with those places. Los Angeles rarely occupies the same space in our visual memory. Yet this richly researched volume makes clear that the struggle for equality was also taking place on the West Coast, through demonstrations,

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Alice Zilberberg is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning artist, recognized by curators, collectors, and art patrons across the globe. Born in the former Soviet Union, she has lived and worked across several countries and continents, continuously shaping her artistic perspective. A graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Photography program, she began her artistic practice by painting: a verve which remains very present in her works. The winner of numerous prestigious competitions, her accolades include receiving the Hasselblad Masters award, as well as 1st place titles in competitions such as the International Photography Awards, the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, and the Fine Art Photography Awards.

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Malick Sidibé

Mali (1935 - 2016)

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Malick Sidibé (1935–2016) was a Malian photographer known for his black-and-white pictures of youth culture and nightlife in Bamako in the years after Mali's independence in 1960. He was born in Soloba, a Fula village about 300 kilometres from Bamako, where his father was a stock breeder, farmer and hunter. He later studied at an art school in Bamako. In 1955 the photographer Gérard Guillat hired him there to decorate his studio, then took him on as an apprentice.

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Mathew Brady

United States (1822 - 1896)

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Mathew B. Brady (c. 1822–1896) was an American photographer whose studios produced many of the best-known portraits of 19th-century public figures and a large share of the surviving photographs of the American Civil War. He left little record of his early life. Late in life he said he was born in Warren County, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, though earlier official documents gave his birthplace as Ireland.

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Deana Lawson

United States (b. 1979)

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Deana Lawson is an American photographer and artist whose staged portraits explore Black identity, family, intimacy, sexuality and spirituality. Born in Rochester, New York, in 1979, she received a BFA in photography from Pennsylvania State University in 2001 and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2004. She lives and works in New York. Lawson’s photographs often bring together people, domestic interiors and carefully arranged objects.

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Baldwin Lee

China / United States (b. 1951)

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Baldwin Lee is a Chinese-American photographer and educator known for his photographs of Black communities in the American South. Born in Brooklyn in 1951, he studied photography with Minor White at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1972. He later completed an MFA at Yale University, studying with Walker Evans. In 1982, Lee joined the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he established its photography program.

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Ciaran Willmore

Ireland (b. 1982)

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For as long as I can remember, I’ve been drawn to travelling and discovering new places, particularly the beauty and scale of unfamiliar landscapes. There has always been something captivating about standing somewhere completely new, taking in the surroundings, and experiencing the world beyond what I know. Over time, this love of travel gradually developed into a passion for photography, allowing me to preserve the places I visit and share the way I experience them.

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Shawn Rosinski

United States (b. 1955)

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Though I had held a camera since childhood, it was a ski trip to Colorado that completely transformed my relationship with the craft. Captivated by the majestic scale of the mountains, I purchased my first SLR, driven by a deep need to capture and share that breathtaking beauty. This creative spark quickly grew into a broader mission to document America’s most iconic landscapes.

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