Photo Museums

Through her raw and poetic lens, F. Bessma Rhea presents Gutter Duchess, a deeply personal photographic series that examines the contradictions and complexities of womanhood — fragility and strength, silence and voice, vulnerability and power. The series follows the artist herself and the significant women in her life — friends, sisters, mothers, confidantes — each portrait resonating with emotional honesty and magnetic presence. Within these images lies a brutal tenderness: a confrontation with identity, legacy, and the turbulent beauty of emerging womanhood.

French-Ivorian photographer François-Xavier Gbré produced the “Radio Ballast” series as part of the Latitudes programme, of which is the first laureate. The work was exhibited at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris in 2025, and will tour to the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York in 2026 and Côte d’Ivoire in 2027. An accompanying volume is co-published by Atelier EXB and the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès.

The International Center of Photography (ICP) is proud to continue its recognition of women that have made a lasting impact on photography by announcing legendary photographer Graciela Iturbide as the 2025 ICP Spotlights honoree. Iturbide, whose profound and poetic work has shaped the way we see the world, will be in conversation with Karla Martínez de Salas, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Mexico and Latin America. The benefi t will coincide with Iturbide’s much-anticipated retrospective, Serious Play, on view at ICP this fall.

The Griffin Museum is honored to present A Yellow Rose Project, a photographic collaboration of responses, reflections, and reactions to the 19th Amendment from over one hundred women across the United States. A Yellow Rose Project is co-founded and curated by Frances Jakubek and Meg Griffiths.

This October, Magnum is partnering with Aperture for the Square Print Sale, titled Youth. Over 100 signed or estate-stamped, museum-quality 6x6” prints will be available online for one week, starting at $110/£110/€120.

PhMuseum presents the first edition of Photobook Mania, a biennial dedicated to the photographic book that will be held on 18-19 October 2025 at serra madre, inside Serre dei Giardini in Bologna. The event, with free admission, aims to become an international reference point for independent international photographic publishing, bringing together over twenty publishers from across Europe who will offer a wide selection of publications that reflect the most current trends and experimentations in the photobook field.

This autumn, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) in Paris presents an ambitious trio of exhibitions that bring together three photographers whose distinct approaches redefine the language of the image. From October 15, 2025, to January 25, 2026, visitors are invited to experience a multi-layered journey through the history and future of photography, spread across the institution’s three floors.

70 Prints for 70 Years, from 17 November 2025 until 26 November, is a limited-time sale that invites the public to own a piece of visual history through a curated selection of 70 images from the World Press Photo archive.

Under the artistic direction of Azu Nwagbogu, founder of the African Artists’ Foundation, the 2025 biennial explores the theme ‘Incarceration’, delving into the visible and hidden dimensions of captivity that manifest across personal, political, and collective life.