KEN OHARA – CONTACTS

Posted on 2025-12-29

In 1974, photographer Ken Ohara embarked on an experiment that transformed the act of image-making into a collective gesture of trust and chance. Living in New York City but born in Tokyo in 1942, Ohara began what he called a photographic chain letter—an invitation sent to strangers chosen randomly from the phone book. Each received a preloaded camera with simple instructions: take photographs of yourself, your family, and your surroundings, then return the camera along with the name of the next participant. Over two years, this modest device passed through a hundred hands across thirty-six states, traveling from Hawai’i to the Bronx, carrying with it fragments of countless unseen lives.

Exhibition runs through to February 8th, 2026

Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street
New York
NY 10014

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DAVID STOCK – HEART OF THE CITY

Posted on 2025-12-29

Stock has long drawn inspiration from the rich social landscape in and around Jackson Heights, Queens. In this show, he turns his lens on “the intense rhythms of local streets, crowded with hardworking New Yorkers of every nationality, animated by irrepressible hope and energy.” Within the seemingly random flow of the street, Stock discovers coherent scenarios and everyday dramas, offering a colorful portrait of grass roots New York that is both descriptive and evocative.

Exhibition runs through to February 8th, 2026

440 Gallery
440 6th Avenue
Brooklyn
NY 11215

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TIME EXPOSED: HIROSHI SUGIMOTO’S SEASCAPES

Posted on 2025-12-29

Drawn from a decade-long pursuit that began in 1980, this exhibition invites viewers to slow down and contemplate the elemental meeting of sea and sky, a horizon that has remained unchanged throughout human history. For Sugimoto, the ocean is both subject and metaphor, a timeless presence that anchors memory, perception, and being.

Traveling to distant coastlines across the globe, Sugimoto photographed oceans that have witnessed the passage of civilizations, wars, and migrations. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Adriatic to the Tasman Sea, each image shares the same restrained composition: water below, sky above, divided by a nearly perfect horizon line. Yet within this apparent sameness lies infinite variation. Shifts in light, atmosphere, and weather transform each photograph into a unique meditation on time and impermanence.

Exhibition runs through to February 8th, 2026

Parrish Art Museum
279 Montauk Highway
Water Mill
NY 11976

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ANETA GRZESZYKOWSKA – DISORDER

Posted on 2025-12-22

Drawing on photography, performance, and sculptural object-making, the artist continues her exploration of existence, memory, and the fragile ties between body and identity. Her use of unconventional materials, including animal skins and hyperrealistic replicas, creates a space where reality and artifice continuously overlap.

In this new presentation, Grzeszykowska turns to those closest to her—family members, pets, and her own physical presence, to question the familiar order of domestic life. Through carefully staged scenes, she shifts roles and blurs categories: humans adopt animal gestures, animals become uncanny mirrors of their owners, and the artist steps into versions of herself that belong to different times. These disruptions unsettle distinctions between human and animal, youth and age, what is alive and what merely resembles life.

Opposite – Daughter # 04, 2025

Exhibition runs through to January 10th, 2026

Voloshyn Gallery
802 NW 22nd Street
Miami
FL 33127

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MATTHEW BRANDT – FROM THE ASHES

Posted on 2025-12-22

The exhibition brings together five series—Dust, January Skies, Florida Strangler, Eagles, and Wai‘anae—each exploring how photography’s physical and chemical roots can reflect the social and environmental realities they depict. For Brandt, the photographic medium is never neutral; it carries the history, material, and atmosphere of the place it represents. His process often incorporates soil, ash, or water gathered from the sites he photographs, transforming each print into a living trace of its origin.

Created specifically for this exhibition, his new Dust works revisit historic San Francisco architecture, using pigments made from dust collected at the sites of demolished buildings. These time-worn images collapse past and present, offering a meditation on transformation, decay, and the persistence of memory. In January Skies, Brandt captures Los Angeles’ wildfire-smoked skies by transferring pigments from inkjet prints onto plaster, resulting in fractured, fresco-like surfaces that echo both destruction and renewal.

Opposite – Panama Pacific International Fair_AAE-0780, 2025

Exhibition runs through to January 10th, 2026

Haines Gallery
2 Marina Boulevard, Building C
San Francisco
CA 94123

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SURFACE / SIGNAL – OWEN KYDD AND KYLE TATA

Posted on 2025-12-22

Surface / Signal: Owen Kydd and Kyle Tata brings together two daring voices from Los Angeles who push the limits of what photography can be — dissolving boundaries between stillness and motion, between image and object, between documentation and abstraction. Their work invites viewers to reconsider how we perceive reality, memory, and material presence.

For Owen Kydd, photographs are not endings — they are beginnings. His recent series treats rooms, streets, windows, and fleeting atmospheres as raw material. Once captured, the digital image becomes pliable: layered, adjusted, stretched. The result lives somewhere between photography and film: a suspended moment dissolves into duration, and what seems like a snapshot begins to breathe. In Kydd’s world, seeing is an act of patience — a call to linger until what is hidden makes itself known.

Kyle Tata counters the instantaneousness of the photographic moment with a physical, visceral intervention. By abrading, bleaching, and inking negatives, he disrupts clarity, allowing presence and absence to collide on paper. His photographs are not documentation — they are encounters. The marks become traces of time, memory, and erosion. What remains isn’t just a scene, but an impression, a ghost of something that once was and is now transformed.

Opposite – Kyle Tata, Convex Hull with Prisms Version 4, 2025

Exhibition runs through to January 10th, 2026

Casemore Gallery
1275 Minnesota Street, #102
San Francisco
CA 94107

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