GATHERING PLACE – A FAMILY ALBUM

Posted on 2025-12-01

The Gathering Place – A Family Album, is an exhibition exploring the rituals, warmth, and complexities of coming together. From holiday dinners and everyday meals to quiet corners and inherited objects, the photographers featured in the show reflect on how we gather, remember, and connect.

Featured artists: Aga Luczakowska, Alexandra Frangiosa, Alina Balseiro, Ankita Singh, Ashley Smith, Betsy Woldman, Catie Keane, Chris Ireland, Christopher Perez, Cynthia Smith, Dana Matthews, David Manski, Diane Bush, Elizabeth Calderone, Faith Ninivaggi, Francine Weiss, Hannah Latham, Heather Pillar, Iaritza Menjivar, Isaac Glimka, John Benton, Julia Arstorp, Justin Carney, Kathy M. Manley, Ken Rothman, Xenia Nikolskaya, Kim-Sarah I, Laura Kirsch, Linda Moses, Magdalena Oliveros, Mona Sartoveh, Naomi Shon, Natia Ser, Peter Balentine, Sarah Malakoff, Shea Baasch, Steven Edson, Susan Lapides, Susan Rosenberg Jones, Talya Arbisser, Tristan Partridge and Virginia Nash.

Opposite – Photography Linda Moses

Exhibition runs through to January 3rd, 2026

Griffin Museum of Photography
67 Shore Road
Winchester
MA 01890

griffinmuseum.org

  

RON NORSWORTHY – AMERICAN DREAM

Posted on 2025-12-01

Ron Norsworthy: American Dream, exhibition examines the delicate balance between aspiration and reality inside Black middle-class domestic spaces. Norsworthy’s new body of work continues his exploration of interior worlds shaped not only by personal history but by the cultural narratives that have long framed the idea of success in America. Through layered photographic constructions, he invites viewers to enter rooms where elegance and uncertainty coexist.

The exhibition features ten sculptural reliefs composed from photographs meticulously built into multi-inch structures. Their exposed plywood edges serve as reminders of the manual labor behind both the physical works and the broader social climb they symbolically echo. Alongside them, Norsworthy introduces three Layer Maps, works on paper that distill the spatial logic of the reliefs into precise, flattened compositions. These pieces offer insight into the architecture of his thinking and the visual rhythms that guide his constructions.

Opposite – More or Less, 2025

Exhibition runs through to December 23rd, 2025

Edwynn Houk Gallery
693 5th Ave 6th Floor.
New York
NY 10022

www.houkgallery.com

  

ERIK MADIGAN HECK – THE TAPESTRY

Posted on 2025-12-01

Erik Madigan Heck is one of the most sought-after photographers working today, attracting collaborations and commissions from fashion and cultural icons such as Comme des Garçons, Gucci, Nike, and The Metropolitan Opera. He is praised for his talent to use color as a poetic medium, transforming each image into a vivid narrative that speaks to the emotional resonance of photography. The Tapestry marks a creative evolution in Heck’s artistic journey. This body of work infuses his love of painting and textile arts into his fashion sensibility. Inspired by the ambient light of Edgar Degas, patterned interiors of Edouard Vuillard and Gustav Klimt, and rich textures of antique tapestries, this series is a romantic exploration of color and form.

Opposite – Erik Madigan Heck, Rainbow Smear, 2024

Exhibition runs through to December 13th, 2025

Jackson Fine Art
3115 East Shadowlawn Avenue
Atlanta
GA 30305

www.jacksonfineart.com

  

THE MANY FACES OF CECIL BEATON

Posted on 2025-11-28

From Vogue fantasies to wartime grit, the NPG charts the photographer’s dazzling rise and complicated legacy.

The National Portrait Gallery’s, Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World, lands with all the theatrical flourish you’d expect from a man who once declared, “When I die, I want to go to Vogue.” Curated by Robin Muir, the display is basically a masterclass in self mythology, tracing every turn of Beaton’s carefully crafted universe and charts his rise during a turning point in fashion history, where photography elbowed illustration out of the way, and took its crown as the industry’s primary visual language.
Across nearly 250 works, Beaton emerges as both visionary and performance artist. Early rooms flash back to his groundbreaking 1968 solo presentation at the gallery, where silvery gelatin portraits of 1920s and 30s beauties shimmered like jewels. As the collection unfolds, it traces a subtle revolt in fashion’s hierarchy, where Beaton proved that the photographer could define what fashion was just as much as the designer’s themselves.

Beaton’s world hits like a masterclass in spectacle. Celebrity portraits of aristocrats, socialites and actors glimmer in their heydey, while sketched out caricatures reveal his multifaceted eye. The range is insane. We see Edith Sitwell sitting across the room from Marilyn Monroe, and reigning English royals around the corner. Interspersed are his Vogue shoots from the 1930s and 40s, unfolding like miniature theater productions, elaborate sets of intensely lit models posing in his meticulous fantasies. The final section celebrates his My Fair Lady triumph, where his luxuriant costumes and sets earned Beaton Oscars and further cemented his place in the 20th century cultural lexicon. By the time you’ve hit room 10 or 12, it’s mind blowing how omnipresent he was in the landscape of his time.

Yet not all is pure enchantment. A swift wartime segment shifts Beaton from orchestrator of opulence to official photographer for the Ministry of Information during WW2. His portrait of three year old Eileen Dunne, bandaged and recovering after a blitz air raid proves that his lens could do more than indulge.

The show also addresses the shadows in his legacy, an antisemitic slur in a Vogue illustration, plus the almost total absence of people of colour, pointing to the dully narrowed vision of beauty he championed, complicating his legacy.
Throughout, the exhibition underscores how singular and how self consciously constructed Beaton’s visual language was, a fusion of Edwardian stage portraiture meets Surrealism meets modernism, all running through his idiosyncratically English filter. He wanted Vogue. Here at the NPG he got it alright, the messy yet dazzlingly brilliant and slightly absurd Beaton universe laid out in all its contradictions.

Cecil Beaton’s Fashionable World is on view at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from 9 October to 11 January.

Words – Celeste Aurora Mae

www.npg.org.uk

  

STEPHEN WILKES – A DAY IN THE LIFE…

Posted on 2025-11-24

Stephen Wilkes: A Day in the Life… brings together photographs from the artist’s ongoing Day to Night project, made during days that look nothing like a normal schedule. While most people move from morning routines to evening plans, Wilkes climbs into a single vantage point and stays there for 18 to 36 hours, perched on rooftops, scaffolding, or custom-built platforms as the world turns beneath him. From that fixed position he makes thousands of exposures, later weaving the most telling moments into a seamless image that gathers the passage of time into one frame.

Opposite – Tunnel View, Yosemite National Park, Day to Night

Exhibition runs through to December 13th, 2025

Holden Luntz Gallery
332 Worth Avenue
Palm Beach
FL 33480

www.holdenluntz.com

  

LAWRENCE SCHILLER – MARILYN TURNS 100

Posted on 2025-11-24

In honor of what would have been Marilyn Monroe’s 100th birthday, Marilyn Turns 100 features a rare and deeply personal collection of photographs taken by Schiller in the final year of Monroe’s life. From candid behind-the-scenes moments to iconic imagery captured on the set of Something’s Got to Give, this exhibition offers an extraordinary and humanizing portrait of a woman whose mystique continues to captivate the world.

Schiller’s intimate access to Monroe at the height and twilight of her career is unparalleled. Through his lens, Marilyn is not only a screen legend, but a complex, vulnerable, and unforgettable woman. This exhibition invites viewers to experience her through a uniquely honest and powerful visual narrative.

Opposite – Marilyn Monroe, 1962

Exhibition runs through to December 19th, 2025

Melissa Morgan Fine Art
73660 El Paseo Drive
Palm Desert
CA 92260

melissamorganfineart.com