Art

What connects Glastonbury Festival with India's Holi celebrations, a pilgrimage high in the Peruvian Andes, or Carnival in Brazil? For documentary photographer José Antonio Rosas, it is a universal human desire: to leave everyday life behind for a moment, become part of something greater, and experience freedom together with others.

In his new monograph, Somewhere We Feel Free, José Antonio Rosas takes us on a photographic journey spanning ten years, four continents, and…

Lennart Brede explores the intersection of photography, film and digital transformation with his project “Allez Gut, Johanna”.

His AI-generated film is based on a real dancer and photographs taken by Brede himself. Artificial intelligence becomes a tool for visual transformation, turning photographic moments into a new world of moving images. A project that raises the question of where photography ends and a new form of filmmaking begins.

Until 22 October 2026, Anna Laudel…

Paper is an everyday material, almost taken for granted – and at the same time one of the oldest carriers of our memories, thoughts and stories. In Papyrus, Jessica Backhaus makes this very material the starting point for a photographic body of work that is as reduced as it is sensual. Following Cut Outs (2021) and Plein Soleil (2024), the new book completes her trilogy on abstraction – and marks her tenth publication with Kehrer Verlag.

At a time when images increasingly…

The particular fascination of photomontage lies in the spaces between images: where pictures meet, leave their original contexts behind and give rise to unexpected new realities. This is precisely what happens in Frozen Features, the new project by American photographer, publisher and artist Jason Fulford, published by Loose Joints.

Fulford fuses time and space, places and memories into a visual waking dream. A tiny coiled leaf meets a vast landscape, a hand floats across a…

They sit side by side – yet sometimes seem worlds apart. In 'Archipelago', Yolanda Del Amo transforms human relationships into composed photographic stages. Gazes fail to meet, bodies share the same space yet remain at a distance. Intimacy and alienation, belonging and autonomy exist simultaneously.

The title says it all: the photographer sees relationships as an archipelago of emotional islands – separate, fragile, yet connected by invisible structures. Working in the…

World-renowned Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama died in Tokyo on August 14, 2026, at the age of 97, just weeks after the close of her record-breaking exhibition at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne.

The major retrospective in Cologne, which ran from March 14 to August 2, 2026, generated unprecedented hype and attracted more than 450,000 visitors, making it the most successful exhibition in the Museum Ludwig's history. Over 300 works spanning seven decades were on display.

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Bridges between Tradition and Modern Technology – On August 12, 2026, the catalogue of works aka catalogue raisonné of media artist Dagmar Varady was presented in the Cabinet Room of the State Chancellery and the Ministry of Culture of Saxony-Anhalt in Magdeburg, in the presence of the artist and publisher Lois Lammerhuber. For the first time, it comprehensively documents her artistic output from 31 years of creative work, spanning 1993 to 2024, encompassing a total of 433…

Some people look at photography. Roy Kahmann looks for photographers.

For more than two decades, the Amsterdam-based publisher, curator, collector, and gallerist Roy Kahmannhas made discovering and nurturing photographic talent the beating heart of his work. What began with Kahmann Gallery and GUP Magazine has evolved into the comprehensive Hungry Eye ecosystem, uniting publishing, exhibitions, artist representation, and an empowering platform for the next generation of…

AI has long become part of the creative everyday in photography, post-production, fashion and advertising. But what is it doing to our visual culture – and to the way we create, read and trust images? This is where SCHIRN Kunsthalle Frankfurt’s major summer exhibition The World Through AI comes in.

Around 40 works by some 30 international artists explore the cognitive, psychological, political and ecological dimensions of artificial intelligence. Videos, photographs…

Body, earth, fire, water, flowers – and the camera as witness. Tate Modern dedicates a major exhibition to Ana Mendieta (1948–1985), one of the most radical and influential multidisciplinary artists of the 1970s and 80s. More than 120 works bring together her iconic Silueta Series, photography and newly remastered films alongside rarely seen paintings and drawings, sculptures and reconstructed installations.

Mendieta dissolved the boundaries between body, landscape…

"Today, creating impactful visual content means combining the best of both worlds: real production and digital innovation. Hybrid visual production allows brands to be more flexible, efficient, and creative, blending live-action footage, CGI, virtual environments, AI-driven tools, and post-production techniques into a seamless workflow.

The result? Faster production times, greater creative freedom, and content that can adapt to multiple platforms and audiences. As technology…

As the winner of the 2025 Prix Elysée, awarded by an international jury of experts, Hannah Darabi (1981), an Iranian artist based in Paris, explores Iranian folk dance as an act of identity resistance through photographs, videos, and archives interwoven with the social and political history of her homeland.

She creates series in which her images enter into dialogue with archives, texts, and objects, revealing the political complexities of contemporary Iran.

Inspired by Woman…

With The Longest Days, Sebastian König presents a personal photographic series exploring childhood, summer, and the fleeting moments between freedom and growing up.

The series follows two young protagonists through long summer days – swimming, playing, and simply being. Rather than telling a linear story, the images unfold as quiet observations in which light, water, and landscape are just as present as closeness, lightness, and the feeling of an endless summer. Moving…

No noise. No rebellion. No staging. With WOLVES, Winter Vandenbrink turns his lens towards the quiet moments of a generation that is constantly together, yet often appears profoundly alone. His photographs portray teenagers on the streets, squares and stairways of Paris, Amsterdam, Milan and Venice – sleeping, waiting, observing or absorbed in their smartphones. Out of these seemingly incidental encounters emerges a compelling portrait of youth, belonging and togetherness.

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Fire Island is far more than a beach just outside New York City. For almost a century, the narrow barrier island has served as a sanctuary, a place of longing and a creative universe for generations of artists, photographers and queer creatives from around the world. With 'Fire Island Art: 100 Years', a comprehensive new volume now documents the visual history of this extraordinary place.

Edited by John Dempsey, the book traces Fire Island's artistic legacy from the 1930s to…

From June 13 through August 8, 2026, New York-based photographer Ryan McGinley presents his new solo exhibition Night Shift at Deitch in New York. With this new body of work, McGinley returns to the streets of his hometown, expanding his visual language by combining the raw energy of his early photography with the cinematic atmosphere of the city at night.

Photographed between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. from spring through winter 2025, Night Shift takes viewers across all five…