InLiquid Gallery is a Philadelphia-based contemporary art organization dedicated to expanding access to the visual arts while strengthening the region’s creative community. Founded in 1999 by artist Rachel Zimmerman, InLiquid emerged at a moment when the internet was beginning to reshape how artists could share their work beyond traditional gallery models. What began as an online platform has since evolved into a robust nonprofit organization that connects artists, audiences, and institutions through exhibitions, education, and sustained community engagement.
Photography has long been an integral part of InLiquid’s programming, reflecting the medium’s accessibility, immediacy, and relevance to contemporary life. The organization regularly features photographers among its more than 350 artist members, presenting photographic work that ranges from documentary and portraiture to conceptual and experimental practices. Exhibitions often explore timely social issues, urban experience, identity, and personal narrative, demonstrating how photography continues to function as both a record of lived reality and a powerful artistic language.
InLiquid’s flagship gallery in the Crane Arts Building serves as a central hub for exhibitions, artist talks, workshops, and public programs, many of which highlight photography as a tool for dialogue and reflection. Alongside this dedicated space, InLiquid’s extensive satellite exhibition program places photographic works in corporate offices and residential buildings throughout Philadelphia. This approach brings photography into everyday environments, reaching audiences who may not typically visit galleries while creating meaningful opportunities and income for artists.
Beyond physical exhibitions, InLiquid’s digital platform remains a vital resource for the region’s photographic community. Online artist portfolios, opportunity listings, and event calendars support professional development and visibility, reinforcing the organization’s original mission of connectivity. By integrating photography across its gallery, satellite, and online initiatives, InLiquid Gallery honors the medium’s democratic roots while championing contemporary artistic voices. Through its sustained commitment to artists and public access, InLiquid continues to shape a more inclusive and engaged visual arts culture in Greater Philadelphia.
This summer, FotoFocus will expand on their vision and embark on a new chapter with the launch of Big Tent, the inaugural exhibition at the new FotoFocus Center, a 14,700 square foot, purpose-built structure to house photographic exhibitions and year-round programs. Bringing together work by over fifty artists (including An-My Lê, Catherine Opie, Dawoud Bey, Gordon Parks, Justine Kurland, Mitch Epstein, RaMell Ross, Sky Hopinka, Tina Barney and many more), the exhibition (on view May 29-August 22) reflects upon the current state of American democracy while also considering the efficacy of photography to be a catalyst for meaningful change.
Stills are delighted to announce their spring exhibition: The Queering of Photography by Åsa Johannesson; the artist’s first solo exhibition in Scotland. The Queering of Photography takes place from 1 May – 27 June 2026, Preview: Thursday 30 April, 6–8pm.
Åsa Johannesson is an artist working across photography and writing. Over the past two decades she has explored the possibilities of queer visual vocabulary within photographic portraiture – a practice that intertwines queer documentary approaches with performative formalist aesthetics.
From 5 March 2026, The National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam presents the exhibition Ekō – Japan in two visual narratives. Curated as artists conversing across time, the exhibit juxtaposes early photographs of Japan from the museum's own collection, including those by Felice Beato, with the contemporary work it inspired as captured by photographer and visual artist Anaïs López.
From February 24 to June 14, 2026, the J. Paul Getty Museum presents Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985, a landmark exhibition exploring how photographic practices helped shape one of the most influential cultural movements of the twentieth century. Organized by the National Gallery of Art, the exhibition reveals how artists across the African diaspora used images not simply to document history, but to transform it.
The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago (MoCP) proudly announces its 2026 exhibition, MoCP at Fifty: Collecting Through the Decades, on view from January 22 through May 16, 2026.
In 1933, captivated by the nocturnal rhythms and hidden corners of Paris, the Hungarian-born photographer Brassaï published Paris by Night, a landmark photobook that forever transformed how the city of lights was imagined. Through his lens, Brassaï illuminated the city’s shadowed streets, smoky cafés, solitary lovers, and night-time wanderers, creating images that were simultaneously intimate and cinematic. Paris by Night did more than document the city—it defined a modern vision of Paris after dark, capturing a blend of elegance, vulnerability, and intrigue that had never been seen in photography before
The PhotoVogue Festival, the first conscious fashion photography festival to bridge ethics and aesthetics, returns to Milan for its tenth anniversary in 2026. From March 1 to 4, during Milan Fashion Week, the festival will take place at the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, one of Italy’s most historic and prestigious libraries—a fitting venue for a milestone edition that underscores the festival’s commitment to thoughtful, socially engaged photography.
Few photographers shaped the visual language of the mid-20th century with the clarity, empathy, and narrative force of Ruth Orkin. Long recognized as a key figure in the rise of American photojournalism, Orkin forged a body of work that placed women—ordinary and extraordinary—at the center of the modern world. Ruth Orkin: Women on the Move, on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts from December 12, 2025, through March 29, 2026, revisits this legacy through 21 iconic and intimate photographs made between the 1950s and 1970s.
For the first time in New York City, the World Press Photo Exhibition 2025 opens its doors, presenting the 42 winners of the annual World Press Photo Contest. This year’s selection brings together striking and thought-provoking images that capture the defining issues of our time, offering a window into urgent global stories through the lens of exceptional photographers.
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