Each installment of In Focus: The MFA Review highlights a different MFA program for photographic artists, offering readers a concise overview of its identity, curriculum, faculty, student experience, financial support, and post-graduation outcomes. It also serves as a showcase of the creative work produced by faculty, students, and alumni. Rather than functioning as rankings or endorsements,…

Each installment of In Focus: The MFA Review highlights a different MFA program for photographic artists, offering readers a concise overview of its identity, curriculum, faculty, student experience, financial support, and post-graduation outcomes. It also serves as a showcase of the creative work produced by faculty, students, and alumni. Rather than functioning as rankings or endorsements,…

Each installment of In Focus: The MFA Review highlights a different MFA program for photographic artists, offering readers a concise overview of its identity, curriculum, faculty, student experience, financial support, and post-graduation outcomes. It also serves as a showcase of the creative work produced by faculty, students, and alumni. Rather than functioning as rankings or endorsements,…

Each installment of In Focus: The MFA Review highlights a different MFA program for photographic artists, offering readers a concise overview of its identity, curriculum, faculty, student experience, financial support, and post-graduation outcomes. It also serves as a showcase of the creative work produced by faculty, students, and alumni. Rather than functioning as rankings or endorsements,…

Each installment of In Focus: The MFA Review highlights a different MFA program for photographic artists, offering readers a concise overview of its identity, curriculum, faculty, student experience, financial support, and post-graduation outcomes. It also serves as a showcase of the creative work produced by faculty, students, and alumni. Rather than functioning as rankings or endorsements,…

Each installment of In Focus: The MFA Review highlights a different MFA program for photographic artists, offering readers a concise overview of its identity, curriculum, faculty, student experience, financial support, and post-graduation outcomes. It also serves as a showcase of the creative work produced by faculty, students, and alumni. Rather than functioning as rankings or endorsements,…

Each installment of In Focus: The MFA Review highlights a different MFA program for photographic artists, offering readers a concise overview of its identity, curriculum, faculty, student experience, financial support, and post-graduation outcomes. It also serves as a showcase of the creative work produced by faculty, students, and alumni. Rather than functioning as rankings or endorsements,…

Each installment of In Focus: The MFA Review highlights a different MFA program for photographic artists, offering readers a concise overview of its identity, curriculum, faculty, student experience, financial support, and post-graduation outcomes. It also serves as a showcase of the creative work produced by faculty, students, and alumni. Rather than functioning as rankings or endorsements,…

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is pleased to announce Yael Martínez as the first winner of the newly established Edelman Impact Award in Photography. Martínez will receive a cash prize of $50,000 in recognition of his achievements in photography. Established by Cathy Edelman, the Edelman Impact Award in Photography at the Museum of Fine

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It all began with the discovery of a cherry red lipstick print left behind on a crypt and a conversation with a stranger at Marilyn Monroe’s grave. That encounter blossomed into a quest to find out about those who not only pay homage to the Marilyn of the silver screen, but most surprisingly, to the

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The final artist of Handmade Artist Books week is Veronika Schapers. It was to see her work that I went to the Book Becoming Art exhibition at the SVMA last year. My heart leapt. Experiencing her work firsthand expanded my understanding of the artist’s book and the breadth of its possibilities. Veronika redefines what a

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I felt transported to another world at the Book Becoming Art exhibition at the SVMA (Sonoma Valley Museum of Art) last year, which showcased contemporary artist books inspired by Japanese aesthetics. One of the works that captivated me was Jack and the Beanstalk by Ryoko Adachi. I spent hours immersed in it, fascinated by its uniqueness

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Shahria Sharmin’s ‘Call me Heena’ is an exploration of the Hijra (third gender) community in Bangladesh through tender and emotionally layered black and white portraits. The artist book shines with quiet strength, its thoughtful design choice inviting the viewers into a deeply humane world where Hijras are seen not as “others”, but as individuals with

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I was captivated by the title of Soumya Sankar Bose‘s photobook Where the Birds Never Sing when it was shortlisted for the 2020 Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook Award. The work resonated deeply with me, as it revisits the tragic Marichjhapi massacre in the Sundarbans with remarkable sensitivity. I was particularly struck by how seamlessly the design

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BINOM by Nata Drachinskaya first came onto my radar when it was selected as a Finalist for the APhF:24 Dummy Award at the Athens Photo Festival. I began following the book closely, which emerges from a deeply personal grief and unfolds into a layered narrative intertwining family life with political realities and state-imposed secrecy. Parallel storylines

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“We’re all one crisis away from being a refugee.” — Hailey Sadler As a young congressional staffer, Hailey Sadler spent many hours focused on national security and defense issues. But it was the human impact of conflict that most passionately captured her attention. So after a few years, she turned to photography to explores how individuals

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Over the past few months, while driving through Los Angeles, I’ve been listening to Ocean Vuong read his extraordinary novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. His language carries an emotional force and there is tenderness in the way he writes the story as a letter from a son, Little Dog, to his illiterate mother. The book

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…even the pigeons seem tired There is a particular complexity in photographing a place or culture that is not entirely your own, especially one layered with histories and contradictions that exist outside your personal experience. Hawai‘i offers those contradictions for many photographers. How does one photograph a mythologized paradise, tourist destination, land that holds difficult histories?…

There are photographers who document the world as it appears, and there are photographers who transform the medium into a space for emotional excavation, memory, and imagination. Ashley Chappell belongs firmly in the latter category. Moving between fashion and fine art, she creates photographs that resist easy definition. Her images that feel suspended between dream and

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Before the white chrysanthemum the scissors hesitate a moment — Yosa Buson This poem touched me with a simple truth: even death pauses before the beauty of life. It made me realize what stops time for me—my children, the most fragile and tender beauty I know. Through them, childhood became in my mind, a fleeting

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The Inner Passage: An Untold Story of Black Resistance Along A Southern Waterway by Virginia McGee Richards, published by The MIT Press, is a deeply considered photographic and historical exploration of the waterways known as the Inner Passage in the South Carolina Lowcountry. For many years, photography has served as an important tool for recovering histories

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GOST has recently released a new monograph, Holy Cow!, by photographer Melonie Bennett. The work spans the 1990s and early 2000s and Bennett’s photographs navigate the intimate terrain of family life. Working within her immediate circle: parents, siblings, friends, and the ever-shifting collection of domestic relationships, Bennett constructs a vivid and unvarnished portrait of the emotional…

Interdisciplinary artist and writer Donna Gordon was awarded the 2025 Denis Roussel Award through Rfotofolio. Her submission featured a series of exquisite photogravure portraits of women situated within the natural world, evoking contemporary visions of Eve in the Garden of Eden. Juror Christopher James praised the work, writing, “This body of work is grounded in myth and meaning

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Photography Educator is a monthly series on Lenscratch. Once a month, we celebrate a dedicated photography teacher by sharing their insights, strategies and excellence in inspiring students of all ages. These educators play a vital role in student development, acting as mentors and guides who create environments where students feel valued and supported, fostering confidence and resilience.…

Cozette Russell builds densely shadowed worlds that reverberate through imagery and surface, considering time as a tactile material in itself. Intimate moments of her life are split, repeated, and coerced into forms that echo a rhythmic heartbeat on their own. Russell’s work is autobiographical and closely questions overlapping elements of care, feminism, and the many

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What I have come to realize, thru nature, is that love is timeless. It has no bounds. It is in all of us and if we are lucky, we find someone who can activate that love in us. Jane Fulton Alt is a remarkable human being and artist. Throughout her career, she has consistently explored

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After living through the devastating Palisades and Altadena fires last year, Californians like me, now carry an intensified awareness of climate change and the growing inevitability of wildfire. What once felt seasonal or distant has become too close for comport and deeply personal. Fire is no longer understood as an isolated natural disaster, but as part

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Happy Mother’s Day to the fathers who mother, the friends who mother, the mothers of animals and the environment, mothers who have struggled raising children or caring for elderly parents , to those who have lost their mothers and found mothers in other faces. But most of all, HMD to all who mother each other.

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Brandon Tani is a San Diego photographer who has received concerted attention through his participation in Medium Photography’s yearly festival and the organization’s juried events. Within the nexus of this borderlands photo community, Tani has presented portfolios of his recent and ongoing projects, which include photo books that outline the lyrical parameters of his investigations, as

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Lydia Panas created the series, Letters to My Mother during a 2019 residency at the American Academy in Rome. This body of work emerges from a period of emotional dislocation following the artist’s mother’s death. What begins as a private act of creating letters rendered as drawings, the series unfolds into a layered meditation on memory,

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