Art
Tonika Lewis Johnson’s Photos Spark Transatlantic Conversation About Race
The artist’s work draws connections between Black communities in Chicago’s South Side and the suburbs of Paris.
Photography
News
LA’s Black Image Center at Risk of Closure
The Culver City nonprofit working to remove cost and accessibility barriers for Black photographers is crowdfunding to keep its doors open.
News
Is That a Question Mark in Deep Space?
An image of two young orbiting stars captured by the James Webb Space Telescope has attracted space enthusiasts and punctuation aficionados alike.
News
Florida School Accused of Censoring Show About Police Violence — And Lying About It
Daytona State College abruptly withdrew a show of Jon Henry’s photographs depicting Black mothers, citing HVAC issues. Others say that wasn’t the real reason.
News
O'Shae Sibley Vigil Shows a Community Fighting for Justice
Photographs of a memorial at the gas station where Sibley was killed convey anger, loss, and a unified message: “We are done dying in silence.”
Art
The Photographer Capturing Our Eiffel Tower Obsession
Inspired by the ubiquitous phenomenon, Oleksandr Popenko documents Eiffel Tower replicas across Ukraine for his Little Paris project.
Art
The Renewed Urgency of Ernest Withers's Photographs
In Opa-locka, Florida, an exhibition of Withers’s civil rights images demonstrates that the Black history the state is trying to erase is indisputable and factual.
News
We Tried Photoshop's New AI Tool on Art, With Mixed Results
The “Generative Fill” function lets you extend any image background and make other modifications, but even robots need art history lessons.
Books
A Global History of Women's Photography Includes Over 300 Artists
This book unearths a trove of unseen images from the past two centuries.
Art
Art in the Early 2000s China Boom
Cruel Youth Diary: Chinese Photography and Video greets us with the dizziness befitting a period of rapid economic growth and social change.
Art
The Never-Before-Seen Photographs of Barkley L. Hendricks
Most people know the artist for his paintings gracefully embodying the Black experience in America. In an upcoming exhibition, his photographs take center stage.
News
Kwame Brathwaite, “Black Is Beautiful” Photographer, Dies at 85
Throughout his six-decade career, Brathwaite harnessed the power of photography to recalibrate the public understanding of Blackness.