ZIG JACKSON – THE JOURNEY OF RISING BUFFALO

Posted on 2025-10-13

Zig Jackson: The Journey of Rising Buffalo brings together the performative and documentary approaches of photographer Zig Jackson, whose work sheds light on the everyday realities of Native American life. With a focus on community, sovereignty, and environmental respect, Jackson challenges misconceptions and reclaims Indigenous narratives through his lens.

A member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara tribes, Jackson grew up on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota and attended several boarding schools, including the Intermountain Indian School in Utah. There, he forged lasting connections with peers from various tribes, realizing the shared struggles Indigenous communities face across the country.

Opposite – Indian Man on Bus, 1994

Exhibition runs through to November 9th, 2025

George Eastman Museum
900 East Avenue
Rochester
NY 14607

www.eastman.org

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PIXY LIAO – RELATIONSHIP MATERIAL

Posted on 2025-10-06

Pixy (born 1979 in Shanghai, China), an artist working in photography, installation, and performance, met Japanese-born artist and musician Moro in 2006 when both were international students in Memphis, Tennessee. Their creative partnership has grown and evolved over the years to include many projects including their music group, PIMO, which has released six albums to date.

Pixy began the photographic series, known as Experimental Relationship, shortly after she and Moro met, with many of the works playfully referencing art history, film, music, and other artifacts of popular culture. She plans to continue it so long as they remain together.

Opposite – Carry the Weight of You, 2017

Exhibition runs through to December 8th, 2025

Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago
IL 60603

www.artic.edu

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DAVID MICHAEL KENNEDY – NEBRASKA ALBUM COVER PHOTOGRAPHS

Posted on 2025-10-06

David’s photograph for Springsteen’s Nebraska album cover is among the most recognizable images in rock history. The image was originally captured in winter 1975, depicting a desolate road seen through a car windshield during a snowstorm.
“The cover shot was taken from the window of an old pickup truck in the dead of winter,” Kennedy recalls. The photo encapsulates the stark, reflective mood of Springsteen’s acoustic album, becoming a lasting symbol of American loneliness and resilience.
The exhibition will feature prints from Kennedy’s photoshoot with Springsteen, which also appear on the album covers in the box set. Visitors will have a rare chance to see and acquire the images that define the visual identity of one of America’s most influential albums.

Opposite – Bruce in Field, 1982

Exhibition runs through to November 17th, 2025

Edition One Gallery
729 Canyon Road
Santa Fe
NM 87501

www.editiononegallery.com

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GORDON PARKS – HERKLAS BROWN AND MAINE, 1944

Posted on 2025-10-06

In January 1944, at the height of World War II, Gordon Parks photographed Herklas Brown, owner of the general store and Esso gas station in Somerville, Maine. Parks traveled to the state under the auspices of the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) to record its contributions to the war effort and to document the home front. His photographs chronicled oil and gas facilities and those who operated them, Esso gas station owners in small towns, and people whose work depended on fuel and other Standard Oil products. Consistent with his work before and after, Parks made it his mission to get to know his subjects and show their humanity. He photographed Brown at his Esso station, in his store, and with his family at the dinner table. Parks spent a month in Maine that winter and then returned in August to resume his work in the state. At a time when transportation, food, and lodging were a challenge, and notably as a Black man traveling alone, Parks nonetheless created a compelling documentary record of rural America that offers insight into this historic moment.

Opposite – The Browns at Home, Somerville, Maine, 1944

Exhibition runs through to November 9th, 2025

Bowdoin College Museum of Art
9400 College Station
Brunswick
ME 04011

www.bowdoin.edu

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MARWAN BASSIOUNI – NEW WESTERN VIEWS

Posted on 2025-09-29

Each image centres on a window, an aperture onto the outside world, rarely found in purpose-built mosques. Through these portals, we glimpse familiar Western landscapes: traffic junctions, supermarkets, apartment blocks, sports fields. But these views are not neutral. They are framed by interiors shaped by Islamic visual culture: patterned tiles, rugs, wooden minbars, and other architectural elements drawn from the diverse communities building mosques across the West. Originating from places such as Bosnia, Lebanon, Turkey, Pakistan, India, Morocco, and Indonesia, these communities transform everyday suburban spaces into makeshift prayer rooms. The result is a distinctly Western scene viewed through a distinctly Islamic frame.

The works on view are large in scale, and composed with a deliberate attention to balance and spatial clarity. While photographic in medium, they depart from traditional documentary approaches. Each image is constructed with precise control over lighting, capturing both interior and exterior spaces within a single frame. This careful calibration preserves architectural and atmospheric detail, resulting in compositions that are immersive rather than descriptive.

Opposite – New Dutch Views #10, The Netherlands, 2018

Exhibition runs through to November 5th, 2025

Lawrie Shabibi
Unit 21, Alserkal Avenue, Al-Quoz 1
Dubai
UAE

www.lawrieshabibi.com

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DON MCCULLIN – A DESECRATED SERENITY

Posted on 2025-09-29

‘A Desecrated Serenity’ chronicles McCullin’s remarkable seven-decade career, including his seventeen-year tenure as special contract photographer for The Sunday Times, when his assignments took him to the frontlines of war across Greece, Vietnam, Biafra, Bangladesh, Northern Ireland and Beirut. It was during this time that he captured searing images such as ‘A shell-shocked US Marine, Hué’ (1968). This widely circulated photograph shows an American soldier gripped by quiet distress during the brutal battle to retake Hue City—one of the Vietnam War’s fiercest conflicts—his intense expression capturing the war’s deep personal toll. ‘A Desecrated Serenity’ presents these harrowing images alongside personal objects that speak to the extraordinary risks McCullin faced in the field, most notably his Nikon F camera that absorbed a bullet during combat. McCullin’s deep, hard-won sense of empathy, shaped by his youth living through poverty and violence in East London, is evident in these images and objects.

Opposite – Catholic youths escaping from CS gas, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 1971

Exhibition runs through to November 8th, 2025

Hauser & Wirth
32 E 69th St
New York
NY 10021

www.hauserwirth.com

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