Southern Rites: Gillian Laub

Name: Southern Rites: Gillian Laub
Start: 2020-02-05
End: 2020-05-24
Location: Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education

Feb 5, 2020 – May 24, 2020

Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education

724 NW Davis Street
Portland, OR 97209

American photographer Gillian Laub (b. 1975) has spent the last two decades investigating political conflicts, exploring family relationships, and challenging assumptions about cultural identity. Her work frequently addresses the experiences of adolescents and young adults in transition who struggle to understand their present moment and collective past.

In 2002, Laub was sent on a magazine assignment to Mount Vernon, Georgia, to document the lives of teenagers in the American South. The Montgomery County residents Laub encountered were warm and polite, both proud of their history and protective of their neighbors. To the photographer, Mount Vernon, a town nestled among fields of Vidalia onions, symbolized the archetype of pastoral, small town American life. Yet this idyllic town was also held hostage by a dark past, manifesting in the racial tensions that scar much of American history. Laub learned that the joyful adolescent rites of passage celebrated in this rural countryside-high school homecomings and proms-were still racially segregated.

Laub photographed Montgomery County over the following decade, returning even in the face of growing-and eventually violent-resistance on the part of some community members. In 2009, a few months after Barack Obama's first inauguration, Laub's photographs of segregated proms were published in the New York Times Magazine. The story brought national attention to the town and the following year the proms were finally integrated. The power of the photographic image served as the catalyst and, for a moment, progress seemed inevitable.

Then, in early 2011, tragedy struck the town. Justin Patterson, a twenty-two-year-old unarmed African American man-whose segregated high school homecoming Laub had photographed-was shot and killed by a sixty-two-year-old white man. At first, the murder seemed to confirm every assumption about the legacy of inequality and prejudice that the community was struggling to shake. But the truth was more nuanced than a quick headline could telegraph. Disturbed by the entrenched racism and discrimination that she encountered, Laub recognized that a larger story needed to be told. Her project, which began as an exploration of segregated high school rituals, evolved into an urgent mandate to confront painful realities.

Relying on her incisive and empathic eye as a photographer, she explored the history of Montgomery County and recorded the stories and lives of its youth. What emerged over the next decade-during which the country witnessed the rise of citizen journalism and a conflagration of racially motivated violence, re-elected its first African American president, and experienced the formation of the Black Lives Matter movement-was a complex story about adolescence, race, the legacy of slavery, and the deeply rooted practice of segregation in the American South.

In Southern Rites, Laub engages her skills as a photographer, filmmaker, storyteller, and visual activist to examine the realities of racism and raise questions that are simultaneously painful and essential to understanding the American consciousness. Through her lens and the voices of her subjects we encounter that which some of us do not want to witness, but what is vital for us to see. Southern Rites is a specific story about young people in the twenty-first century from the American South, but it poses a universal question about human experience: can a new generation liberate itself from a harrowing and traumatic past to create a different future?

Southern Rites is organized by the International Center of Photography and ICP curator Maya Benton.

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Sep 18, 2026 – Nov 01, 2026

Aperture
New York, NY, United States

Aperture Loves New York, on view from September 18 to November 1 at Aperture's new permanent home at 380 Columbus Avenue, marks the opening of a long-awaited space for photography on the Upper West Side. Curated by executive director Sarah Meister, the inaugural installation brings together photographs by more than twenty artists with the Aperture books that advanced their work, tracing seven decades of publishing history through the lens of a city that has shaped—and been shaped by—its photogra

Alexa Frangos: (Re)arranging

Oct 01, 2026 – Nov 01, 2026

Perspective Gallery
Evanston, IL, United States

Perspective Gallery presents Alexa Frangos: (Re)arranging, on view from 1 October through 1 November 2026, a solo exhibition that finds inspiration in the artist's daughter's hands, using photo-collage to imagine them reassembling what is broken. "She is still young, but has a crystal clear grasp of what is wrong with the world," Frangos writes. "I often imagine her hands picking up the pieces of this shattered world and remaking it, leaving nothing undone in her efforts to right all the wrongs.

Cursed Images: Pictures Out of Context

May 09, 2026 – Nov 01, 2026

Norton Museum of Art
West Palm Beach, FL, United States

The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach presents Cursed Images: Pictures Out of Context, on view from 9 May through 1 November 2026. Drawn from a recent gift of 20th-century vernacular photographs from the Peter J. Cohen Collection, the exhibition considers anonymous snapshots whose subjects and object relationships create a subtle, inexplicable unease. The phrase “cursed image” emerged online around 2015, but the sensation it describes belongs to photography’s longer history. A crooked pose

Closeness: A PHOCUS Exhibition

Oct 03, 2026 – Nov 01, 2026

CPW - Center for Photography at Woodstock
Kingston, NY, United States

The Center for Photography at Woodstock presents Closeness: A PHOCUS Exhibition, on view from 3 October through 1 November 2026, an exploration of how proximity—both physical and emotional—shapes the moments captured by a camera. Organized by PHOCUS, Vassar College's photography club and community darkroom, the exhibition brings together student works that examine the relationship between photographer and subject, asking whether closeness can be discerned from a single static image. The photogra

Tilted / Straight

Sep 10, 2026 – Nov 03, 2026

Panopticon Gallery
Boston, MA, United States

Boston's skyline has long served as both canvas and character, but two photographers now pull the city in opposite directions without leaving its streets. Tilted / Straight, opening September 10th at Panopticon Gallery, pairs Peter Vanderwarker's unwavering documentation of the John Hancock Tower with Fern L. Nesson's disorienting abstractions of Boston's architecture. Vanderwarker's relationship with the Hancock Tower dates to 1975, when the glass monolith still wore plywood scaffolding and fac

Resistance

Aug 27, 2026 – Nov 06, 2026

Lucie Foundation
Los Angeles, CA, United States

Resistance at House of Lucie Los Angeles brings together photographs from four urgent and intertwined conflicts: the American experience with ICE and migration enforcement, the Iranian uprising, the war in Ukraine and the ongoing Palestinian struggle for freedom and self-determination. On view from August 27 through November 6, 2026, the exhibition is curated by Sarah Leen and presented in collaboration with the Lucie Foundation. It features work by Lynsey Addario, Samar Abu Elouf, Saher Alghorr

Gordon Parks: Voices in the Mirror

Sep 18, 2026 – Nov 07, 2026

Jack Shainman Gallery Lafayette Street
New York, NY, United States

Gordon Parks: Voices in the Mirror at Jack Shainman Gallery returns to images that have long defined American photojournalism, but it does so through a different register: the voices of the people and families who lived inside them. On view from September 18 to November 7, 2026, the exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of The Gordon Parks Foundation and reopens Parks’s photographs as sites of memory, testimony and historical afterlife. The premise is unusually direct. Families and subjects conn

Ryan Frigillana: Tears, Blood, Sweat

Aug 27, 2026 – Nov 07, 2026

Silver Eye Center for Photography
Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Ryan Frigillana: Tears, Blood, Sweat at Silver Eye Center for Photography brings faith, migration and labor into the same frame, where they remain uneasy, personal and deeply political. On view from Aug. 27 through Nov. 7, 2026, the exhibition draws from Frigillana’s experience as a first-generation Filipino American to examine how family history and inherited belief systems shape the idea of belonging. Working across photography, collage and appropriated imagery, Frigillana builds images that m

Fabiola Menchelli: our sharp line of sight

Sep 12, 2026 – Nov 07, 2026

Marshall Gallery
Santa Monica, CA, United States

Fabiola Menchelli: our sharp line of sight at Marshall Gallery presents photography as a physical encounter with light, color and uncertainty. On view from September 12 through November 7, 2026, the exhibition gathers two dozen unique chromogenic prints made between 2024 and 2026, marking Menchelli’s third solo presentation with the gallery and her first devoted entirely to this recent camera-less work. Menchelli’s images begin in complete darkness. She folds photosensitive paper, exposes it to

Sarah Sense: Land, Line, Blood, Memory

Sep 17, 2026 – Nov 07, 2026

Bruce Silverstein Gallery
New York, NY, United States

Sarah Sense: Land, Line, Blood, Memory at Bruce Silverstein Gallery brings photography, basketry and archival research into close contact. On view from September 17 through November 7, 2026, the exhibition presents more than 20 new photo-weavings by the Chitimacha/Choctaw artist, whose work challenges the systems that have separated Indigenous people from ancestral land, cultural knowledge and historical record. Sense builds each piece from contemporary landscape photographs, archival documents,

Natural Order, Lucien Liu and Rachel Phillips

Oct 17, 2026 – Nov 29, 2026

CFPA - Center for Photographic Art
Carmel, CA, United States

Natural Order, Lucien Liu and Rachel Phillips brings two distinct photographic practices into the same frame, with spiderwebs acting as both image and idea. On view from October 17 to November 29, 2026, the exhibition moves through coastal Northern California, where the natural world and the built environment remain tightly intertwined, often in ways that feel uneasy rather than harmonious. Liu’s work draws on long walks through Golden Gate Park and nearby landscapes, where he records leaves, wa

Stephen Wilkes: America in Detail, Discovering its Life and Light

Oct 17, 2026 – Oct 31, 2026

Holden Luntz Gallery
Palm Beach, FL, United States

JL Modern Gallery, presented by Holden Luntz Gallery, presents Stephen Wilkes: America in Detail, Discovering its Life and Light, on view from 17 through 31 October 2026. The exhibition celebrates the 25th anniversary of Wilkes's landmark millennium portrait of the United States, an epic 52-day odyssey originally commissioned by Epson America in 2000. The project captured life across the country at the turn of the century and serves as a major turning point in the history of large-scale digital

Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder

Oct 18, 2026 – Apr 04, 2027

Sarasota Art Museum
Sarasota, FL, United States

Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder, on view from October 18, 2026 through April 4, 2027 at the Sarasota Art Museum, brings together a remarkable selection of twentieth-century photography drawn from a deeply personal collection. Assembled over decades by photographer and humanitarian Judy Glickman Lauder, the exhibition gathers nearly one hundred works that reflect the breadth of human experience, while emphasizing photography’s enduring role as a witness to existence.

Todd Gray: Church and State

Oct 18, 2026 – Jan 16, 2027

The Brick
Los Angeles, CA, United States

Todd Gray: Church and State at The Brick in Los Angeles brings together three large-scale photographic assemblages by an artist whose work has grown increasingly ambitious in scale, form and content over the past decade. On view from October 18, 2026, through January 16, 2027, the exhibition includes two new mural-scale pieces and a significant collection of biographical material that maps Gray’s personal and professional life as a young Black man growing up in post-war Los Angeles. Gray’s compl

Curran Hatleberg: River's Dream, 2010-2020

Oct 21, 2026 – Dec 12, 2026

Higher Pictures
Brooklyn, NY, United States

Higher Pictures in Brooklyn presents River’s Dream, 2010–2020 by Curran Hatleberg, the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from 21 October through 12 December 2026. The exhibition, at 45 Main Street, Suite 723, in DUMBO, marks the first time the complete opus of sixty-five photographs is shown together. Emerging from Hatleberg’s sustained presence in the South-Eastern United States, River’s Dream narrates the turbulent and unresolved coexistence of human and non-human life,

Cassandra Klos: Cosmic Origins

Oct 22, 2026 – Jan 04, 2027

Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Durham, NC, United States

The Duke Center for Documentary Studies presents Cosmic Origins by photographer Cassandra Klos, on view from 22 October 2026 through 4 January 2027, in partnership with Duke University's MFA|EDA program and the Duke Space Initiative. Bringing together photographs, artifacts, and ephemera, the exhibition explores humanity's relationship to space, scientific exploration, and the possibility of life beyond Earth through Klos's long-term project Mars on Earth. Klos, born in 1991, documents her exper

Sam Taylor-Johnson: She Was I

Oct 22, 2026 – Jan 23, 2027

Jackson Fine Art
Atlanta, GA, United States

Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta presents She Was I, a survey of career-defining work by Sam Taylor-Johnson, one of Britain's most internationally celebrated artists, photographers, and filmmakers. The extensive solo exhibition runs from 22 October 2026 through 23 January 2027, with an opening reception on 22 October from 6 to 8 PM. The exhibition coincides with the publication of the artist's major new monograph, Sam Taylor-Johnson: The Self and the Portrait, published by Rizzoli on 6 October 2026,

Tina Barney: Fashion

Oct 24, 2026 – Nov 14, 2026

Olney Gleason
New York, NY, United States

Olney Gleason Gallery in New York presents Tina Barney: Fashion, on view from 24 October through 14 November 2026 at 297 Tenth Avenue. The exhibition brings together nearly four decades of Barney's major editorial commissions and campaigns for global fashion brands, spanning the late 1980s to the present. It is presented concurrently with the publication of a comprehensive monograph of the same title by Aperture, and marks Barney's first New York exhibition following Family Ties, the major touri

Jeff Brouws: Silent Monoliths

Oct 29, 2026 – Dec 12, 2026

Robert Mann Gallery
New York, NY, United States

Jeff Brouws: Silent Monoliths, on view at Robert Mann Gallery from October 29 to December 12, 2026, showcases the photographer's landmark series documenting the architectural remnants of America's railroad history, featured in his critically acclaimed book Silent Monoliths: The Coaling Tower Project, published by MIT Press in February 2026. Acting as a visual anthropologist, Jeff Brouws utilizes a precise, deadpan typological approach to capture these industrial monuments left behind by technolo

Common Time | In Concert: Photography and the Violin

Oct 30, 2026 – Dec 06, 2026

Griffin Museum of Photography
Winchester, MA, United States

Common Time | In Concert: Photography and the Violin draws from the Mirapaul Collection to trace nearly two centuries in which the violin has served as one of photography’s most flexible symbols. The exhibition brings Together images by celebrated practitioners including Irving Penn, Josef Koudelka, Robert Frank, August Sander, Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Kertész, Dorothea Lange, Yousuf Karsh, Eve Arnold, Arnold Newman, George Hurrell, Julia Margaret Cameron, David Goldblatt, Doris Ulmann, Nich

Stephen DiRado: Bell Pond

Nov 01, 2026 – Dec 04, 2026

Abakus Projects
Boston, MA, United States

Abakus Projects presents Bell Pond, an exhibition of photographs by Stephen DiRado, at Gallery 300, 300 Summer Street, Boston, from 1 November through 4 December 2026. An opening reception with the artist takes place on Sunday, 1 November, from 3 to 5 PM. DiRado also gives an artist talk and signs copies of the new monograph from TBW Books on Sunday, 22 November, at 3 PM. The exhibition revisits his first major body of work, made during the summer of 1983 at an urban park and swimming pond in Wo

Martha Strawn: The Phenomenology of Water

Nov 01, 2026 – Jan 08, 2027

Upstairs Artspace
Tryon, NC, United States

Upstairs Artspace in Tryon, North Carolina, presents The Phenomenology of Water: Works by Martha Strawn, on view from 1 November 2026 through 8 January 2027. A free community reception takes place on Sunday, 1 November, from 2 to 4 PM at the gallery, 49 South Trade Street. The exhibition, the gallery’s 2026 Distinguished Alumni Artist presentation, brings together more than 80 large-format color and black-and-white photographs and new video works from Strawn’s long-term project on the relationsh

Duo: Jason Byron Gavann & Jack Pierson

Nov 06, 2026 – Dec 19, 2026

Daniel Cooney Fine Art
Santa Fe, NM, United States

Daniel Cooney Fine Art presents Duo: Jason Byron Gavann & Jack Pierson, an exhibition bringing together two artists whose friendship spans nearly five decades. On view from 6 November through 19 December 2026, the show uses portraiture to consider the ties between friendship, artistic influence, and the cultural communities that shape an artist’s vision. The photographs place two distinct practices in conversation, tracing connections and contrasts rooted in a shared history. Gavann and Pierson

Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers

Nov 07, 2026 – Apr 25, 2027

MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Chicago, IL, United States

Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers brings the Chicago-born artist back to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago with a survey that reads less like a retrospective than a map of recurring pressures in his work. On view from November 7, 2026, through April 25, 2027, the exhibition gathers 70 works that track more than two decades of Johnson’s shifting language, from photography and sculpture to relief, drawing and installation. Johnson’s practice has long used Black cultural history, philos

Remember Me: Picturing African Americans in Early Photography

Nov 07, 2026 – Mar 14, 2027

National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC, United States

Remember Me: Picturing African Americans in Early Photography at the National Gallery of Art brings together approximately 70 works from the museum’s collection, many on view for the first time, to trace how Black Americans used photography to define themselves, celebrate their communities and challenge stereotypes during the 19th and early 20th centuries. On view from November 7, 2026, through March 14, 2027, in the West Building’s Ground Floor, Gallery G30, the exhibition draws on a new acquis

Gilles Peress: The Northern Ireland Conflict, 1968–1998

Nov 14, 2026 – Apr 11, 2027

MIA - Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis, MN, United States

Gilles Peress: The Northern Ireland Conflict, 1968–1998 brings one of documentary photography’s most sustained bodies of work to the Perlman Gallery at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. On view from November 14, 2026 through April 11, 2027, the exhibition draws from photographs Peress made in the 1970s and 1980s during The Troubles, the decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland that ended with the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. Gilles Peress, who was born in France and studied political science

The Photography Triennial: After Dark

Nov 20, 2026 – Apr 25, 2027

Museum of the City of New York
New York, NY, United States

The Museum of the City of New York’s photography collection is a cornerstone of our mission to document and celebrate the dynamic story of New York City. Spanning from 1840 to the present day, the collection is housed in a state-of-the-art facility and serves as an unparalleled visual record of the city’s transformation across nearly two centuries. In 2023, the Museum launched the Photography Triennial, a bold and forward-looking initiative dedicated to showcasing the best of contemporary photog

James Nizam: Fata Morgana

Nov 21, 2026 – Jan 09, 2027

Marshall Gallery
Santa Monica, CA, United States

James Nizam: Fata Morgana at Marshall Gallery presents the first U.S. gallery exhibition by the Vancouver-based artist, whose work treats photography as an expanded, process-driven medium. On view from November 21, 2026, through January 9, 2027, the exhibition takes its title from a specific kind of mirage: the optical effect produced when light passes through a thermal inversion, creating the illusion of objects hovering above the horizon. The show brings together framed photographic prints alo

Jamil Fatti: Songs of Loving Late

Dec 04, 2026 – Feb 13, 2027

Filter Photo
Chicago, IL, United States

Filter Photo in Chicago presents Songs of Loving Late, a solo exhibition by Jamil Fatti, on view from 4 December 2026 through 13 February 2027. A gallery reception with the artist takes place on 4 December from 5 to 8 PM at Filter Space, 1821 W Hubbard Street, Suite 207. The exhibition is free and open to the public. Songs of Loving Late begins with the passing of Fatti's auntie, Mama Fatty, who helped raise his father after the death of his own father when he was still a baby. The work follows

Testaments to the Beautyful Ones

Jan 21, 2027 – May 16, 2027

MoCP - Museum of Contemporary Photography
Chicago, IL, United States

Testaments to the Beautyful Ones, on view from January 21 through May 16, 2027, brings together a dynamic group of artists and writers in an exhibition that reflects on contemporary life across the African continent. Curated by Yuan-Chih (Sreddy) Yen, the project unfolds as both a visual and literary conversation, shaped by the enduring resonance of Ayi Kwei Armah’s landmark novel and its meditation on disillusionment and renewal. In parallel, it echoes the vibrant, layered optimism found in Nji

Ana González

Jan 30, 2027 – Jul 04, 2027

Joslyn Art Museum
Omaha, NE, United States

Ana González turns to Colombia’s forests, rivers and mineral wealth in a new exhibition at Riley CAP Gallery S8, where the landscape is presented as both subject and warning. Working across media, González focuses on the environmental damage tied to gold mining, linking present-day extraction to older narratives of greed and conquest. The project places ecological loss at the center, while also pointing to the communities most directly affected, especially Indigenous populations living along wat

Beneath the Surface: Mining and American Photography

Feb 14, 2027 – May 09, 2027

Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Fort Worth, TX, United States

Beneath the Surface: Mining and American Photography traces a compelling visual history of the United States through the lens of extraction, industry, and the land itself. On view from February 14 to May 9, 2027, this exhibition brings together approximately 150 photographs spanning nearly two centuries, revealing how deeply photography has been shaped by the same natural resources it so often depicts. From its earliest chemical processes to its industrial applications, the medium has always bee

American Bohemia: The Photographic Legacy of the Village Voice

Feb 20, 2027 – Aug 01, 2027

UCR - California Museum of Photography
Riverside, CA, United States

American Bohemia: The Photographic Legacy of the Village Voice examines the radical visual culture that emerged from one of the most influential alternative newspapers in American history. On view at the California Museum of Photography from February 20 to August 1, 2027, the exhibition traces how the Village Voice reshaped photographic practice by rejecting conventional newsroom aesthetics in favor of intimacy, experimentation, and personal vision. Founded in 1955 in Greenwich Village, the pape

George Platt Lynes

Mar 13, 2027 – Aug 08, 2027

Carnegie Museum of Art
Pittsburgh, PA, United States

George Platt Lynes (1907–1955) was a seminal figure in American photography, whose work defined the artistic and cultural life of New York City during the 1930s and 1940s. Renowned for his refined style and mastery of studio lighting, Lynes created images that captured the elegance, desire, and artistic potential of his era. From commercial assignments to intimate personal portraits, his photographs reveal a life lived in full engagement with the creative community, blending technical precision

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.

“Equal to Any in the City:” Ball & Thomas Photographs 1840s – 1870s

Jul 03, 2026 – Oct 14, 2026

Cincinnati Museum Center
Cincinnati, OH, United States

“Equal to Any in the City:” Ball & Thomas Photographs 1840s–1870s places James Presley Ball where he belongs: at the center of American photographic history. On view at Union Terminal from July 3 to October 14, 2026, the special exhibition draws from the Cincinnati Museum Center’s J.P. Ball photograph collection, the largest in the United States, and presents more than 100 original photographs that chart the rise of a free man of color who built a national reputation through skill, ambition and

IN GRAY | Soomin Ham

Sep 01, 2026 – Oct 11, 2026

Multiple Exposures Gallery
Alexandria, VA, United States

IN GRAY, on view at Multiple Exposures Gallery from September 1 to October 11, 2026, presents Soomin Ham's meditation on what it means to have two homes yet never fully belong to either. The exhibition features photographic diptychs and layered images that trace Ham's experiences moving between Korea and the United States, combining white acrylic with traditional Korean black ink to create works that hover in the space between two worlds. Trees appear throughout as quiet companions and metaphors

Anton Roland Laub: Mobile Churches in Ceausescu’s Bucharest

Apr 25, 2026 – Oct 11, 2026

Wende Museum
Culver City, CA, United States

Anton Roland Laub: Mobile Churches in Ceausescu’s Bucharest unfolds a haunting chapter of recent European history, one where architecture, faith, and political power collided in unsettling ways. Set against the backdrop of Bucharest in the 1980s, the project examines the violent reshaping of a city under Nicolae Ceausescu’s authoritarian vision, when vast sections of the historic center were erased in the name of progress, control, and spectacle. At the heart of Laub’s work lies a story that bor

Private Collections Salon and Sale

Jul 25, 2026 – Oct 10, 2026

Jackson Fine Art
Atlanta, GA, United States

Jackson Fine Art’s Private Collections Salon and Sale returns for its 12th edition on July 25 and runs through October 10, 2026, bringing more than 100 photographs to its Buckhead gallery in Atlanta, with the selection also presented online. The annual event has become a fixture for collectors looking beyond the auction circuit, pairing market knowledge with a carefully edited group of works from private hands. The sale spans a wide field of photography, moving from established names to more rec

Timeline: A Record of The Moment

Aug 28, 2026 – Oct 10, 2026

LACP - Los Angeles Center of Photography
Los Angeles, CA, United States

A group of photographers turns their attention to everyday life in Timeline: A Record of The Moment, an exhibition built around the idea of documenting change as it unfolds. Presented from August 28 to October 10, 2026, the project brings together eight artists working in San Francisco and Los Angeles, each contributing images drawn from their immediate surroundings. The result forms part of a larger, ongoing archive that tracks contemporary life across the United States. The exhibition coincide

Roadside Attractions

Mar 07, 2026 – Oct 04, 2026

New Mexico Museum of Art
Santa Fe, NM, United States

Roadside Attractions opens at the New Mexico Museum of Art on March 7, 2026 and runs through October 4, 2026, using the centennial of Route 66 as the frame for a look at the American road trip. The exhibition gathers photographs that follow the highway’s long pull across the country and its lasting hold on the national imagination. Route 66, established in 1926, cut through New Mexico on its way from Chicago to Santa Monica, passing through towns such as Tucumcari, Santa Rosa, Albuquerque and Ga

Keisha Scarville: Where Salt Meets Black Water

May 08, 2026 – Oct 04, 2026

Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, NY, United States

Keisha Scarville: Where Salt Meets Black Water transforms the outdoor plaza of the Brooklyn Museum into a contemplative space where photography, memory, and mourning converge. Presented as part of the museum’s UOVO Prize series, the exhibition centers on Scarville’s ongoing exploration of family history, migration, and the emotional residue carried through objects and images. Born in Brooklyn to Guyanese parents, the artist has built a practice rooted in portraiture and assemblage, often using p

Promise and Peril: Recent Acquisitions in American Landscape Photography

May 08, 2026 – Oct 04, 2026

VMFA - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, VA, United States

Promise and Peril: Recent Acquisitions in American Landscape Photography, on view at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts from May 8 through October 4, 2026, examines the evolving relationship between image-making and the American land. Drawing from works acquired since 2022, the exhibition spans more than a century and a half of photographic practice, offering a timely reflection aligned with the 250th anniversary of the United States. From its earliest days, landscape photography has played a cent

Jeron Joseph: Sacred Ground

Mar 06, 2026 – Oct 04, 2026

The Anchorage Museum of Art
Anchorage, AK, United States

Sacred Ground, on view from March 6 through October 4, 2026 at the Anchorage Museum, presents a contemplative body of photographs by Yup’ik artist Jeron Joseph. Installed in the museum’s First Floor Family Galleries South Hallway, the exhibition reflects years of attentive observation along the coastal landscapes of Western Alaska. Joseph’s images explore the quiet rhythms of the land—its shifting light, seasonal cycles, and fragile ecosystems—while also conveying a deeper cultural understanding

Helen Maurene Cooper: Blue Angels

Oct 16, 2025 – Oct 04, 2026

Arcadia Exhibitions
Glenside, PA, United States

Helen Maurene Cooper: Blue Angels, on view at Arcadia Exhibitions at Rosedale Gallery from October 16, 2025 through October 4, 2026, presents a striking body of photographic portraits that bridge centuries of image-making and identity. Created in 2017 in collaboration with drag queens and kings from Chicago, Philadelphia, and Miami, the series revisits early photographic processes to explore how LGBTQ+ lives might have appeared—and been understood—within the visual culture of the 19th century. T

Henry Horenstein: Miles and Miles of Texas

Sep 12, 2026 – Oct 03, 2026

Catherine Couturier Gallery
Houston, TX, United States

Henry Horenstein: Miles and Miles of Texas, on view at Catherine Couturier Gallery from September 12 to October 3, 2026, presents a Bostonian's affectionate portrait of the Lone Star State through nearly 100 photographs taken mostly between 2021 and 2024. The series, published as an eponymous book in 2025 by Honky Tonk Editions, explores the people and culture of Texas through the eyes of Horenstein, who has been fascinated with the state since childhood, influenced by everything from the TV ser

Investigations into the Metaphysical

Aug 07, 2026 – Oct 03, 2026

MMPA - Maine Museum of Photographic Arts
Portland, ME, United States

Investigations into the Metaphysical at MMPA brings together a group of photographers and image-makers who treat the medium less as a record of the visible than as a way of probing what lies beneath it. On view from August 7 to October 3, 2026, the exhibition gathers work by Andrew O’Brien, Gary Green, Marianne Bernstein, Keily Anderson Staley, Brendan Bullock, John Gintoff, Joyce Ellen Weinstein, Sarah Salomon, Brenton Hamilton, Fern Nesson, Peter Shellenberger, Elizabeth Opalenik, Luc Demers a

Melonie Bennett: Holy Cow!

Aug 07, 2026 – Oct 03, 2026

MMPA - Maine Museum of Photographic Arts
Portland, ME, United States

Melonie Bennett: Holy Cow! at MMPA turns a family archive into a study of affection, dysfunction and survival. On view from August 7 to October 3, 2026, the exhibition draws from Bennett’s first monograph, a black-and-white sequence of photographs made over two decades, from 1990 to 2011, inside the world she knew best: her own family, friends and rural Maine surroundings. The pictures are funny, raw and unsentimental all at once. Bennett grew up on a dairy farm, and her photographs carry the rh

Emma Geiger: Til Íslands

Jun 10, 2026 – Oct 02, 2026

Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Durham, NC, United States

The Duke Center for Documentary Studies presents Til Íslands by Emma Geiger, on view from 10 June through 2 October 2026, an exhibition that traces dislocation and reconnection with the Icelandic landscape after more than a century of separation. In the summer of 2025, Geiger returned to the land left behind by her great-great-grandmother in 1888, documenting the delicate experience of becoming reacquainted with a landscape and people in the midst of dramatic environmental change. The exhibition

'The Caretakers' by Mital Patel

Sep 01, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026

All About Photo Showroom
Los Angeles, CA, United States

The Caretakers, on view at the All About Photo Showroom throughout September 2026, presents American photographer Mital Patel's intimate portrait of the fragile relationship between the world's last two northern white rhinos and the people who protect them. The series, winner of All About Photo's September 2026 Solo Exhibition competition, focuses on Fatu and Najin, mother and daughter, who live under 24-hour armed guard at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya, where their survival has become insepara

Lis Sam: Metamorphosis

Sep 01, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026

Fremin Gallery
New York, NY, United States

Lis Sam: Metamorphosis at Fremin Gallery presents the artist’s Blossoming Girls series, a body of work that treats transformation as both subject and method. On view from September 10 through October 31, 2026, the exhibition brings together ethereal portraits in which the human figure merges with flowers, butterflies and handcrafted botanical elements, blurring the boundaries between reality and imagination. Born in Tunisia in 1989 and raised in France, Lis Sam is a self-taught artist whose prac

Jim Westphalen: Echoes on the Land

Aug 31, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026

Gilman Contemporary
Ketchum, ID, United States

Jim Westphalen: Echoes on the Land turns the camera toward the weathered remains of homesteads across the American West, where abandoned houses, barns and outbuildings stand as evidence of labor, migration and loss. On view from August 31 to September 30, 2026, the exhibition gathers photographs that treat these structures less as ruins than as witnesses to a history still visible in the land. Westphalen’s subject is inseparable from the promise and contradiction of westward expansion. The Homes

Americana | Photographs 1850-1950

Jul 23, 2026 – Sep 30, 2026

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA, United States

Americana | Photographs 1850-1950 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art looks at a century of American life through the camera’s changing reach. On view from July 23 to September 30, 2026, the exhibition draws from the museum’s collection to show how photography helped shape ideas of the United States during a period defined by war, industrial growth, migration and expanding access to the medium itself. The show moves beyond the usual shorthand of Americana. Apple pie, baseball and parade scenes app

What We’ve Been Up To: People

Feb 08, 2026 – Sep 29, 2026

Denver Art Museum
Denver, CO, United States

What We’ve Been Up To: People, on view at the Denver Art Museum from February 8 to September 29, 2026, offers a thoughtful and quietly powerful exploration of the human presence as seen through photography. Drawn entirely from the museum’s collection, the exhibition brings together more than sixty photographs that have never before been displayed in the galleries, reaffirming the enduring role of the photographic image as a record of lived experience and shared humanity. Installed on Level 6 of

Vision(ary) 2026: Raising Our Voices

Jun 05, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026

Griffin Museum of Photography
Winchester, MA, United States

Vision(ary) 2026: Raising Our Voices turns the Griffin Museum of Photography’s summer public art program into a broad survey of activism in the United States. On view from June 5 to September 28, the exhibition brings photography into public space with banner works and installations around the museum, focusing on protest, advocacy and social justice across different periods of American life. The project arrives as the country moves toward its 250th anniversary, and the emphasis is on how images

The Forgotten: Wheaton Mahoney

Jun 05, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026

Griffin Museum of Photography
Winchester, MA, United States

Wheaton Mahoney’s The Forgotten returns to the Griffin Museum this summer as an outdoor, site-specific installation that places abandoned portrait photographs in the museum’s trees and interior spaces. Running from June 5 to September 28, 2026, the project is part of the museum’s ongoing Illuminating The Archive series, created in partnership with founder Arthur Griffin, and transforms the museum grounds into a forest gallery where forgotten faces meet living branches. The series grew over six y

Yves Saint Laurent and Photography

Jun 11, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026

ICP - International Center of Photography
New York, NY, United States

Yves Saint Laurent and Photography illuminates the dialogue between couture and camera—a creative tension that shaped both the myth and modernity of Yves Saint Laurent’s vision. Presenting over three hundred photographs and archival materials, this exhibition at the International Center of Photography traces how photography documented, translated, and occasionally reimagined the designer’s universe. Across four decades, the lens became a mirror for genius, revealing the craft, charisma, and cont

Photobooks USA 2000–25

Jun 11, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026

ICP - International Center of Photography
New York, NY, United States

Photobooks USA 2000–25 looks at how the photobook became one of the most active forms of photographic expression in the United States over the past quarter-century. On view from June 11 to September 28, 2026, the exhibition gathers more than 50 titles and traces the ways artists have used books to respond to social, political, cultural and environmental change. The selection brings together out-of-print publications and recent releases, showing both the reach and the range of the medium. Rather

William Bridges: MY Photographic Memory?

Sep 03, 2026 – Sep 27, 2026

Perspective Gallery
Evanston, IL, United States

Perspective Gallery presents William Bridges: MY Photographic Memory?, on view from 3 to 27 September 2026, an exhibition that reimagines the relationship between recollection and the photographic image. Bridges challenges the notion of photographic memory as perfect recall, proposing instead that everyone carries visual memories shaped by individual perception and the passage of time. The work emerged from an unconventional trajectory. Bridges studied architecture as an undergraduate before dep

Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder

Jul 25, 2026 – Sep 27, 2026

Southampton Arts Center
Southampton, NY, United States

Presence: The Photography Collection of Judy Glickman Lauder arrives at Southampton Arts Center as a dense, lucid argument for photography’s power to hold life in place. On view from July 25 through September 27, 2026, the exhibition draws from Judy Glickman Lauder’s singular collection and brings together roughly 100 photographs by about 70 artists, spanning portraiture, landscapes, reportage and street photography. Rather than following a strict chronology, the show organizes images around the

Women in Print; A Celebration of Works on Paper

Aug 01, 2026 – Sep 27, 2026

MMPA - Maine Museum of Photographic Arts
Portland, ME, United States

Women in Print; A Celebration of Works on Paper brings together a wide range of women photographers whose work reflects both the history of the medium and its continuing reinvention in Maine and New England. On view from August 1 to September 27, the exhibition spans traditional and experimental processes, from antique techniques to contemporary approaches, with a roster that includes June Kim, Deb Dawson, Joyce Tenneson, Tara Sellios, Lisa Mossel, Jeanie Hutchins, Sal Taylor Kydd, Asia Kepka, A

Blazing Light: Photographs by Mimi Plumb

Jun 13, 2026 – Sep 27, 2026

Johnson Museum of Art
Ithaca, NY, United States

Blazing Light: Photographs by Mimi Plumb brings the first museum survey of the Berkeley photographer to the Johnson Museum of Art, on view from June 13 to September 27, 2026. Installed in the Gold, Schaenen, and Class of 1953 Galleries on the second floor, the exhibition gathers three major bodies of work that track more than five decades of looking at California’s altered landscapes and the pressure they carry. Plumb began photographing in the 1970s, when rapid development, Cold War anxiety and

From Shadows to Light: A Global Journey Through the Aftermath of Trafficking

Jul 01, 2026 – Sep 27, 2026

Griffin Museum of Photography
Winchester, MA, United States

The Griffin Museum of Photography presents From Shadows to Light: A Global Journey Through the Aftermath of Trafficking, a compelling exhibition by Matilde Simas on view from July 1 to September 27, 2026, in its Satellite Galleries. Over the course of seven years, Simas documents the lives of survivors of sex trafficking, forced labor, and forced marriage across multiple continents. Her work brings together portraits from countries including Kenya, Uganda, the Philippines, and the United States,

Inked: Stigma, Otherness, and Art

Sep 27, 2025 – Sep 27, 2026

Tang Museum
Saratoga Springs, NY, United States

Inked: Stigma, Otherness, and Art, presented online from September 27, 2025 through September 27, 2026 on the website of the Tang Museum, explores the long and complex history of tattooing as both artistic practice and social marker. Spanning photography, prints, and works on paper, the exhibition considers how permanent marks on the body have signified belonging, resistance, spirituality, punishment, pride, and transformation across centuries and cultures. By unfolding in a digital format, the

Raymond Thompson Jr.: “It’s hard to stop rebels that time travel”

Sep 03, 2026 – Sep 26, 2026

Blue Sky Gallery
Portland, OR, United States

It's hard to stop rebels that time travel, on view at Blue Sky Gallery from September 3 to 26, 2026, presents Raymond Thompson Jr.'s photographic meditation on maroons, runaway slaves, and the hidden histories embedded in the American landscape. The project, which takes its title from an essay by H.L.T. Quan, utilizes archival fragments, historic ephemera, and Thompson's own images to focus on individual stories whose existence is only now revealed through traces in the collective archive. The w

riel Sturchio: Signal

Sep 03, 2026 – Sep 26, 2026

Blue Sky Gallery
Portland, OR, United States

Signal, on view at Blue Sky Gallery from September 3 to 26, 2026, presents riel Sturchio's exploration of how spiritual practices and rituals offer sanctuary and resistance for LGBTQ+ people and women facing systemic oppression. The project, which documents over forty practitioners across the United States and Mexico, delves into the practices of psychics, witches, seers, and believers as acts of belonging. Personal rituals rupture unjust hegemonic systems, and Sturchio uses photography to revea

Joel-Peter Witkin: Selected Works 1973 - 2018

Jul 23, 2026 – Sep 26, 2026

Fahey/Klein Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, United States

Joel-Peter Witkin: Selected Works 1973 - 2018 at Fahey/Klein Gallery brings together more than four decades of work by one of photography’s most polarizing figures. On view from July 23 through September 26, 2026, the exhibition gathers seminal images and rarer prints that show how Witkin built a career around image-making that resists easy categories. Witkin’s photographs are known for their dense staging and their uneasy mix of references. Religion, mythology, classical painting and mortality

A Century of Abstraction in Mexican Photography

Jul 16, 2026 – Sep 26, 2026

Throckmorton Fine Art
New York, NY, United States

A Century of Abstraction in Mexican Photography at Throckmorton Fine Art traces a long arc in which Mexican photographers used abstraction not as an escape from place, but as a way of seeing it more sharply. On view from July 16 to September 26, 2026, the exhibition brings together more than 40 works made between 1924 and 2013, linking early modern experiments to later, more expansive approaches to form, light and landscape. The show includes major figures such as Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Flor Gard

In Light and Shadow: A Photographic History from Indigenous America

Aug 14, 2026 – Sep 26, 2026

Obscura Gallery
Santa Fe, NM, United States

In Light and Shadow: A Photographic History from Indigenous America brings together contemporary Indigenous photographers and historical images in an exhibition that traces visual traditions across generations. On view from August 14 to September 26, 2026 at Obscura Gallery, the show is tied to a new book by Brian Adams and Sarah Stacke and includes a signing event that places the publication and exhibition in direct conversation. Curated by Obscura Gallery with Adams and Stacke, the presentatio

20th Century Film Stills: Hollywood & Beyond

Jul 30, 2026 – Sep 25, 2026

Keith de Lellis Gallery
New York, NY, United States

20th Century Film Stills: Hollywood & Beyond at Keith de Lellis Gallery treats the movie still as a form of cinema history with fingerprints left on it. Running from July 30 through September 25, 2026, the exhibition brings together original vintage photographs that circulated alongside films at the moment of release: press stills, unit photographs and wire service prints that helped build the public image of a movie before streaming, trailers and social media took over the job. The selection mo

William Wegman: Private Show

Jul 18, 2026 – Sep 25, 2026

Marc Selwyn Fine Art
Los Angeles, CA, United States

William Wegman: Private Show at Marc Selwyn Fine Art revisits the artist’s early experiments and places them beside later photographs that carry the same sense of wit and visual invention. Opening July 18 and running through September 5, 2026, the exhibition brings together vintage work from the 1970s with images made decades later, showing how Wegman kept testing the edge between photography, performance and illusion. After moving to Southern California in 1970, William Wegman became part of a

Noppadol Paothong: Wild Places

Aug 01, 2026 – Sep 23, 2026

Kooyumjian Gallery at Webster University
Webster Groves , MO, United States

Noppadol Paothong: Wild Places at the Kooyumjian Gallery at Webster University brings together more than two decades of conservation photography by one of Missouri’s most respected image-makers. On view from August 1 through September 23, 2026, the exhibition pairs intimate macrophotography with dynamic wildlife moments, revealing the hidden complexity of the natural world. Paothong, a staff wildlife photographer for the Missouri Department of Conservation and an associate fellow of the Internat

Perceptual Shifts: Photographs from the Collection

Jun 28, 2026 – Sep 20, 2026

Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Perceptual Shifts: Photographs from the Collection brings together works that challenge the idea that photography is a straightforward record of what stands in front of the lens. On view from June 28 to September 20, 2026 at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the exhibition gathers images from the museum’s collection that move between sharp detail, blur, abstraction and staged construction. The photographs in the show turn familiar settings into unstable ones. Everyday places and well-known landsc

Dear America: Artists Explore the American Experience

Apr 11, 2026 – Sep 20, 2026

National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC, United States

Dear America: Artists Explore the American Experience brings together more than 100 works on paper that examine how artists have pictured the United States over the past 250 years. On view from April 11 to September 20, 2026 in the West Building at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the exhibition looks at landscape, people and ideas of freedom through photography, prints and drawings. The selection ranges widely in both subject and style. It includes photographs by Carleton Watkins and

Hyundai Card First Look: Sheree Hovsepian

Apr 24, 2026 – Sep 20, 2026

MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY, United States

Sheree Hovsepian’s work at MoMA constructs bodies from fragments, assembling photographs of body parts into three-dimensional compositions that resist becoming unified figures. The artist, born in Iran and raised in the United States, describes growing up with a hyper-awareness of her body as a politically charged location, an experience that continues to shape how she depicts the human form. In this exhibition, she uses her sister as a stand-in, photographing isolated limbs and spines before co

Another Frame: Lola Álvarez Bravo, Mariana Yampolsky, Graciela Iturbide, Flor Garduño

Apr 02, 2026 – Sep 20, 2026

TMA - Tucson Museum of Art
Tucson, AZ, United States

Another Frame: Lola Álvarez Bravo, Mariana Yampolsky, Graciela Iturbide, Flor Garduño, on view at the Tucson Museum of Art from April 2 to September 20, 2026, brings together a compelling selection of photographs that illuminate the poetic richness of everyday life in twentieth-century Mexico. Spanning three generations of women photographers, the exhibition reveals a shared sensibility rooted in observation, yet open to imagination and symbolism. Each artist approaches the world with a quiet in

Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaetón

Apr 14, 2026 – Sep 20, 2026

MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Chicago, IL, United States

Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Reggaetón, presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago from April 14 through September 20, 2026, examines the vibrant cultural histories of two influential musical movements that emerged from the Caribbean and its diasporas. Through photography, installation, video, and sound, the exhibition considers how dancehall and reggaetón function not only as musical styles but also as forms of collective expression rooted in resistance, celebration, and c

David Plowden’s Iowa

May 04, 2026 – Sep 20, 2026

Sioux City Art Center
Sioux City, IA, United States

David Plowden’s Iowa is on view at the Sioux City Art Center from May 4 through September 20, 2026, presenting a sustained meditation on the state’s rural character. Comprising sixty-four black and white photographs made over four decades, the series traces barns weathered by wind, solitary grain elevators rising above flat horizons, rail lines cutting across open fields, and storefronts that hint at busier days. The cumulative effect is neither sentimental nor severe. Instead, the work unfolds

Altered Lands and the Anthropocene

Mar 28, 2026 – Sep 20, 2026

Nevada Museum of Art
Reno, NV, United States

The exhibition invites visitors to reflect on humanity’s profound and irreversible impact on the planet through a selection of striking works from the Museum’s Altered Landscape Photography Collection. These images capture the visible traces of human presence, revealing the transformation of natural, constructed, and virtual worlds. The notion of the Anthropocene—a term coined by Nobel Prize–winning scientist Paul Crutzen in 2000—defines this era as one in which human activity has become the dom

Sites of Memory

Aug 07, 2026 – Sep 19, 2026

CPAC - Colorado Photographic Art Center
Denver, CO, United States

Sites of Memory at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center brings together the work of Harlan Bozeman, Justin A. Carney, Taylor E Edgerton, and Letitia Huckaby in an exhibition shaped by the 2026 One Book One Denver selection. On view from August 7 to September 19, 2026, the show uses photography to examine how trauma, history, and resilience settle into places and move across generations. The premise is grounded in a familiar truth: stories do more than describe experience, they organize it. In t

Rania Matar: Where Do I Go?

May 09, 2026 – Sep 19, 2026

Robert Klein Gallery
Boston, MA, United States

Where Do I Go?, presented at the newly inaugurated RKG x SEA-DAR Project Space in Boston from May 9 through September 19, 2026, marks a deeply personal chapter in the work of Lebanese American photographer Rania Matar. Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War, the exhibition reflects on displacement, survival, and the fragile meaning of home through a series of intimate portraits made across Lebanon. Born in Lebanon to Palestinian parents, Matar has lon

Callahan, Gowin and Sommer

Apr 14, 2026 – Sep 19, 2026

Etherton Gallery
Tucson, AZ, United States

Callahan, Gowin and Sommer, presented at Etherton Gallery from April 14 through September 19, 2026, brings together three defining figures of twentieth-century American photography in a tightly focused exhibition built on dialogue, influence, and shared inquiry. Centered on the work of Emmet Gowin, the presentation traces a lineage that connects his formative years under Harry Callahan with his enduring friendship with Frederick Sommer, offering a rare opportunity to consider their practices in

Phyllis Graber Jensen: Picture Stories

Jun 12, 2026 – Sep 19, 2026

Bates College Museum of Art
Lewiston, ME, United States

Phyllis Graber Jensen: Picture Stories offers an expansive look at a career devoted to visual storytelling, chronicling more than five decades of social change, daily life, and institutional history. On view from June 12 to September 19, 2026, the exhibition traces Jensen’s evolution as a photographer, beginning with her early work documenting the women’s liberation movement in Denmark during the 1970s and extending through her years in American newsrooms and academic life in Maine. Together, th

Peter Ydeen: Waiting for Palms

Jun 09, 2026 – Sep 18, 2026

Noyes Museum of Art
Hammonton, NJ, United States

Peter Ydeen: Waiting for Palms presents seventy photographs from Morocco and Egypt at the Noyes Galleries at Stockton University Kramer Hall, on view from June 9 through September 18, 2026. The exhibition focuses on everyday scenes in urban and roadside settings, where older traditions and modern growth sit side by side with little separation. Ydeen’s pictures do not chase major landmarks or dramatic moments. They hold on to quieter details: a woman standing beside a mural, children framed by a

David Uzochukwu: Bodies of Water

Jun 10, 2026 – Sep 15, 2026

Memphis Brooks Museum Of Art
Memphis, TN, United States

David Uzochukwu: Bodies of Water unfolds as a lyrical exploration of identity shaped by movement, memory, and transformation. In his first solo museum exhibition, Uzochukwu invites viewers into a world where boundaries dissolve and the body becomes a site of adaptation. Water functions not only as a physical element but as a metaphor for migration, passage, and survival, echoing histories of displacement while imagining futures grounded in resilience. Populated by hybrid figures that merge human

Andrea Hernández Briceño: Fire Becomes Spirit

Jun 24, 2026 – Sep 13, 2026

ICP - International Center of Photography
New York, NY, United States

Andrea Hernández Briceño: Fire Becomes Spirit brings an Amazonian community into view through a project shaped by time, trust and close observation. On view from June 24 to September 13, 2026 at ICP’s Incubator Space, the exhibition follows Hernández Briceño’s documentation of the Huöttöja people in Venezuela’s Amazon basin, where mining pressure and ancestral knowledge sit in uneasy balance. The photographs begin from a clear ethical concern: how to portray a community without repeating the ext

Lynn Goldsmith: Shared Light

Jun 20, 2026 – Sep 13, 2026

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
Sarasota, FL, United States

Lynn Goldsmith: Shared Light brings photography, flowers and portraiture together at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota from June 20 to September 13, 2026. The exhibition spans the Downtown Sarasota campus and the Richard and Ellen Sandor Museum of Botany & the Arts, pairing Goldsmith’s flower images with portraits of Patti Smith, Selby Gardens’ artist in residence. Goldsmith has spent more than 50 years working across celebrity portraiture, music photography and fine art. Her images have

Todd Hido, Many Small Decisions

Aug 01, 2026 – Sep 13, 2026

CFPA - Center for Photographic Art
Carmel, CA, United States

Todd Hido, Many Small Decisions marks the 25th anniversary of House Hunting, the book that helped define Todd Hido’s reputation for photographing the quiet edges of suburban and rural America. On view from August 1 to September 13, 2026 at the Center for Photographic Art, the exhibition brings together night-time house images, recent collages and other works that extend the same uneasy, cinematic atmosphere that has long shaped his practice. Born in 1968 in Kent, Ohio, Todd Hido has built his ca

Lake Verea: Dark Rooms and Other Games

May 09, 2026 – Sep 13, 2026

Palm Springs Art Museum
Palm Springs, CA, United States

Since 2005, Mexico City–based artists Francisca Rivero-Lake and Carla Verea have worked together under the name Lake Verea, blending their personal identities and creative visions to explore the boundaries between architecture, emotion, and image-making. Their collaboration weaves intimacy, queerness, and experimentation into photography, transforming built spaces into living presences that hold memory, tenderness, and time. In their series Dark Rooms and Other Games, Lake Verea turn their atten

1911 Sunset Boulevard

Aug 08, 2026 – Sep 12, 2026

Gallery Luisotti
Los Angeles, CA, United States

1911 Sunset Boulevard at Gallery Luisotti looks at Taix French Restaurant through the period between its final months and the empty site left after demolition. On view from August 8 through September 12, 2026, the exhibition brings together work by Marcel Alcalá, Maxfield Hegedus, Kittpong, Arturo Soto, Abdi Taslimi and Evan Whale, alongside Ed Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip. For more than six decades, Taix occupied an unusual position on Sunset Boulevard. Its dining rooms, banquet

Constance Thalken: Heart of a Bird

Aug 01, 2026 – Sep 12, 2026

Whitespace
Atlanta, GA, United States

Heart of a Bird at Whitespace Gallery brings Constance Thalken’s long attention to the natural world into sharp focus through photographs made over five years in the Southeast, from Florida to Texas. On view from August 1 to September 12, the exhibition draws from the forthcoming monograph of the same name and centers on coastal marshlands, small communities, and the uneasy border where human life meets the forces of weather, water, and animal survival. Thalken’s work does not romanticize the la

Blessings from the Three: Tortilleras, Jotos, and Potaxies

Aug 01, 2026 – Sep 12, 2026

The Luckman Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, United States

Blessings from the Three: Tortilleras, Jotos, and Potaxies at The Luckman Gallery turns Los Angeles into a charged social landscape, where cyanotype, mirror surfaces and queer Brown memory meet. On view from August 1 to September 12, 2026, the exhibition by Amina Cruz, curated by Steve Galindo and Aaron Gomez, moves through redlined neighborhoods as if they were living archives rather than fixed geography. Cruz’s photographs draw on the language of spiritual inheritance and urban friction. The t

Bev Grant: Photographs from Cuba, 1969

Jul 24, 2026 – Sep 12, 2026

OSMOS
New York, NY, United States

Bev Grant: Photographs from Cuba, 1969 at OSMOS revisits a brief but telling chapter in the photographer’s long career as an activist and documentarian. On view from July 24 to September 12, 2026, the exhibition presents images made during Grant’s trip to Cuba for the tenth anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, when she traveled with the radical collective Newsreel as part of a broader exchange of alternative media personnel from the United States. The photographs record a country in motion and a

Expand and Contract: Notes about American Documentary Photography in the 21st Century

Jul 25, 2026 – Sep 12, 2026

LACP - Los Angeles Center of Photography
Los Angeles, CA, United States

Expand and Contract: Notes about American Documentary Photography in the 21st Century takes a restrained but pointed look at how documentary photography has evolved across the first quarter of the century. On view from July 25 to September 12, 2026, the third edition of the exhibition at the Los Angeles Center of Photography brings together work that reflects on the country’s shifting image of itself, from 9/11 and the rise of digital media to protest, displacement, wildfire and incarceration. C

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