CLAIRE A. WARDEN – MIMESIS

Posted on 2026-01-12

Working with alternative photographic processes, Warden physically intervenes in the creation of her images, manipulating silver halides directly on the negative. This deliberate disruption of the photographic surface becomes a metaphor for the layered forces—cultural, biological, historical—that shape identity. The resulting abstractions evoke visual languages borrowed from scientific imagery: cellular structures, topographic formations, and celestial fields. These references suggest systems of classification and observation, while simultaneously revealing their limitations when applied to something as fluid and complex as the self.

Mimesis positions photography not as a tool for description, but as a site of negotiation between visibility and erasure. The works hover between portraiture and landscape, presence and absence, reflecting how racialized identities are often read through fragmented or inadequate frameworks. By obscuring literal representation, Warden foregrounds the emotional and psychological dimensions of perception, challenging the viewer to confront how meaning is projected rather than discovered.

Opposite – Emphasis, 2015

Exhibition runs through to February 21st, 2026

Candela Books + Gallery
214 West Broad Street
Richmond
VA 23220

www.candelagallery.com

  

H IS FOR HAWK

Posted on 2026-01-12

When Helen’s beloved father passes away, she is knocked sideways by grief and loses herself in memories of their time birding and exploring the natural world together. She becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk, and so she brings the fearsome bird Mabel home to her life as a graduate fellow at Cambridge.

Helen fills the freezer with hawk food and turns off her phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals. But as she labours to tame Mabel, a grieving Helen undergoes an untaming of her own.

In theatres January 23rd, 2026

www.hisforhawkfilm.com

  

DOOBA DOOBA

Posted on 2026-01-12

In-home security cameras watch as an awkward 16-year-old girl terrorizes her well-meaning babysitter.

In theatres January 23rd, 2026

darkskyfilms.com

  

CLIKA

Posted on 2026-01-12

In the debut film from trailblazing music producer Jimmy Humilde’s production company, aspiring small town musician Chito (JayDee) is determined to make it big. When a clip of him performing one of his songs goes viral, he seizes the opportunity and pushes to carve out a place for himself in the new wave of Mexican-American music…and ultimately gets caught in a game more dangerous than anticipated. In a story of ambition, tradition, and self-discovery, Chito is ultimately forced to confront the choices he’s made in his relentless pursuit to reach his dream.

In theatres January 23rd, 2026

privatelifefilm.com

  

THE SHAPE OF THINGS – WHERE COLOR MEETS FORM

Posted on 2026-01-12

The Shape of Things: Where Color Meets Form explores photography’s ability to construct a sense of depth, presence, and materiality through chromatic intensity and formal precision. Presented at Holden Luntz Gallery, the exhibition brings together artists who treat color not as embellishment but as structure—an active force that shapes how space is perceived and bodies are imagined. Within this dialogue, color becomes a threshold between the visible and the sensed, inviting viewers to reconsider how photographic images occupy physical and psychological space.

At the heart of the exhibition is the work of Christopher Bucklow, whose practice stands apart for its fusion of conceptual rigor and quiet introspection. Known for his use of pinhole photography, Bucklow creates images that feel both ancient and futuristic, grounded in simple optical principles yet charged with metaphysical inquiry. In his celebrated Guests series, life-sized human silhouettes emerge from thousands of tiny apertures, each pinhole acting as a conduit through which light, time, and memory pass. The figures appear simultaneously solid and immaterial, suggesting presences shaped as much by absence as by form.

Opposite – Christopher Bucklow — Tetrarch, 1.29pm 30th July 2007

Exhibition runs through to February 17th, 2026

Holden Luntz Gallery
332 Worth Avenue
Palm Beach
FL 33480

www.holdenluntz.com

  

MARIO GIACOMELLI – LA GENTE, LA TERRA

Posted on 2026-01-12

Mario Giacomelli (1925–2000) stands among the most influential figures in postwar Italian photography, a self-taught artist whose vision reshaped the boundaries of the medium. Born in the small Adriatic town of Senigallia, Giacomelli left school at the age of thirteen to work as a typesetter, later serving briefly in the Italian army. His path to art was far from conventional: in 1950, he opened a small printshop in his hometown, and three years later, he purchased his first camera. What began as a curiosity quickly evolved into a lifelong exploration of image-making, where the darkroom became a place of invention and transformation.

Giacomelli approached photography as a field of experimentation, manipulating film and paper to create stark contrasts and bold compositions that captured the psychological texture of postwar Italy. His landscapes of the Marche region—rolling hills, furrowed vineyards, and solitary figures—became metaphors for resilience and renewal. The rural terrain, seen through his lens, transforms into near-abstract compositions, echoing the emotional power of contemporary painting while remaining deeply rooted in the land and its people.

Opposite – Paesaggio 230 (Landscape), from the portfolio “Paesaggio”, 1957-59

Exhibition runs through to February 15th, 2026

Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1130 State Street
Santa Barbara
CA 93101

www.sbma.net