KUNIÉ SUGIURA – DISCOVERIES

Posted on 2025-11-24

This exhibition celebrates the six-decade-long photographic practice of Kunié Sugiura, highlighting her relentless experimentation and her capacity to merge scientific curiosity with artistic vision. Born in Nagoya, Japan, in 1942, Sugiura was among the first students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to focus on photography during the 1960s. Since moving to New York City in 1974, she has maintained a studio practice that consistently challenges conventional boundaries, producing works that exist independently of the prevailing trends and discourses that have shaped photography over the decades.

Exhibition runs through to December 21st, 2025

Johnson Museum of Art
Cornell University – 114 Central Avenue
Ithaca
NY 14853

museum.cornell.edu

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JAMEL SHABAZZ – LOVE IS THE MESSAGE

Posted on 2025-11-17

Jamel Shabazz’s photography offers a vivid chronicle of urban life, friendship, and resilience from the 1980s to today. His lens captures the essence of community, moments of laughter among friends, the quiet pride of families, and the expressive power of style and self-presentation. Deeply rooted in the culture of the streets, his images reflect the rise of hip-hop as both a musical and visual movement, revealing how fashion, rhythm, and attitude became intertwined forms of identity and empowerment. Whether in black-and-white or color, Shabazz’s photographs radiate warmth and humanity, transforming ordinary encounters into timeless celebrations of connection.

The exhibition Love Is the Message marks the fiftieth anniversary of Shabazz’s career and showcases a remarkable selection from his personal archive-prints, cameras, and memorabilia that trace the evolution of his artistic journey. Each image, whether of a Brooklyn block or a moment shared between strangers, testifies to his belief that photography can heal, uplift, and build understanding. His work embodies love not as sentimentality but as a force of dignity and collective memory.

Opposite – A time of innocence, Flatbush, Brooklyn, 1981

Exhibition runs through to December 16th, 2025

Hofstra University Museum of Art
112 Hofstra University
Hempstead
NY 11549

www.hofstra.edu

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RICHARD MISRACH – REWIND

Posted on 2025-11-17

Organized in reverse chronology, the exhibition moves from Misrach’s recent series Cargo, a meditation on global trade and its environmental and human costs, to his early 1970s project Telegraph 3 A.M., which captured Berkeley’s street culture in the aftermath of the counterculture movement. Together, the works form a compelling portrait of an artist who has continually balanced social engagement with formal and aesthetic inquiry.

Across film, digital, and large-scale prints, Misrach’s photography embraces both technical experimentation and emotional resonance. His images of freighter ships illuminated by sunrise hues of pink and violet in San Francisco Bay reflect a fascination with beauty as a vehicle for deeper reflection. As Misrach has stated, beauty can compel viewers to confront issues they might otherwise turn away from. This balance between allure and unease runs throughout his practice, from his haunting documentation of the U.S.-Mexico border wall and Louisiana’s polluted Cancer Alley to his meditative seascapes and desert landscapes. Each image captures a world suspended between stillness and consequence.

Opposite – Untitled (Saguaro #3), 1975

Exhibition runs through to December 20th, 2025

Fraenkel Gallery
49 Geary Street
San Francisco
CA 94108

fraenkelgallery.com

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ANDREA WENGLOWSKYJ – ANXIETY OF AMNESIA

Posted on 2025-11-17

Anxiety of Amnesia brings together the intertwined visions of Andrea Wenglowskyj and her late father, Bohdan, through a dialogue that spans more than six decades. Combining original imagery, found archival photographs, and text, the exhibition explores how memory and photography overlap to shape identity, belonging, and grief. The project delves into the quiet power of vernacular photography, those intimate, everyday images that often outlast their creators, and questions who owns the stories they preserve. Through this layered conversation between past and present, Wenglowskyj reimagines her father’s absence as a space for connection, creating a tender exchange that bridges generations.

Exhibition runs through to December 20th, 2025

CEPA Gallery
617 Main Street
Buffalo
NY 14203

www.cepagallery.org

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PARKER STEWART – TIDELAND

Posted on 2025-11-10

Tideland presents a hauntingly beautiful series of black-and-white photographs by Savannah-based artist Parker Stewart, taken between 2020 and 2024. Through his lens, Stewart captures the raw essence of Georgia’s coastline—a region where the natural world feels both ancient and alive. His images transport viewers into an environment where sea and land intertwine endlessly, creating a dialogue between stillness and motion. With fog-draped marshes, weathered docks, and timeworn shrimp boats, these photographs immerse us in a landscape that hums with memory and quiet transformation.

Opposite – Summer Storm, Herb Creek. Isle of Hope. 2020

Exhibition runs through to December 7th, 2025

Telfair Museums – Jepson Center
207 W. York Street
Savannah
GA 31401

www.telfair.org

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LARRY SULTAN – HOMELAND

Posted on 2025-11-10

In this body of work, Sultan turns his lens to Latino day laborers positioned within the suburban landscapes of California, capturing moments suspended between movement and stillness. Drawing inspiration from the tradition of landscape painting, his images evoke order while simultaneously emphasizing ambiguity and uncertainty, revealing the latent possibilities that emerge in quiet intervals.

Sultan’s attention to overlooked spaces, fields behind strip malls, borderlands along the LA River, reflects a lifelong fascination with the places that shaped his childhood in the San Fernando Valley. By revisiting these environments, Homeland interrogates notions of suburban identity, blending the ordinary with subtle layers of anticipation and quiet reflection. The series challenges assumptions about domesticity, labor, and the landscapes we inhabit, creating images that feel both specific and universal.

Opposite – Cul-De-Sac, Antioch, 2008

Exhibition runs through to December 20th, 2025

Yancey Richardson Gallery
525 West 22nd Avenue
New York
NY 10011

www.yanceyrichardson.com

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