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In the Anthropocene Era, Nature Becomes Experimental
Does our relationship with nature still truly exist? At the Rencontres d’Arles, as at Bildhalle or Paris Photo, photographers reveal the dead ends we find ourselves in and attempt to sketch alternative paths. Here’s a closer look at four of them: SMITH, Polly Tootal, Małgorzata Stankiewicz, and the duo Inka&Niclas.
Friday December 19, 2025
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• Exhibitions: In the Anthropocene Era, Nature Becomes Experimental
• Book: In the Moment: 40 Years of Reuters Photojournalism
• Book: Devin Oktar Yalkin’s Illustrated Home
• Exhibition: Diana Markosian Photographs a Ballet On the Edge
• Exhibition: Guanyu Xu: Non-Linear Paths
• Archives: Sheila Metzner on Photography, Film, and Golden Light
• Archives: William Klein’s Unseen Photographs of Africa
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Does our relationship with nature still truly exist? At the Rencontres d’Arles, as at Bildhalle or Paris Photo, photographers reveal the dead ends we find ourselves in and attempt to sketch alternative paths. Here’s a closer look at four of them: SMITH, Polly Tootal, Małgorzata Stankiewicz, and the duo Inka&Niclas.
By Lou Tsatsas
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Surveying almost half a century of news photography at Reuters, the book In the Moment: 40 Years of Reuters Photojournalism showcases the very best of the agency’s photojournalism, bringing together pictures and texts to tell the stories behind iconic news photographs.
By Robert E. Gerhardt
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Published by Zone, Alone Together was born within the family home of photographer Devin Oktar Yalkin, located on the edge of the ocean in New Jersey. A poetic essay on the notion of home and what it represents.
By Lou Tsatsas
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Backstage at the Cuban National Ballet, Diana Markosian photographs what remains when the curtain falls. In her exhibition titled “Fantômes”, closing at Picto in Brooklyn this week, bodies appear and dissolve, suspended between discipline and doubt, tradition and disappearance.
By Jonas Cuénin
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New York City’s Yancey Richardson Gallery presents artist Guanyu Xu’s exhibition “Resident Aliens.” Working across social practice, installation, and photography, Xu examines immigrant life, evoking the bureaucratic structures that shape and constrain it.
By Gaia Squarci
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In 2022, the American artist’s brilliantly textured, luminous photographs came to Paris in “Objets de désir”, marking her first solo exhibition in France.
By Christina Cacouris
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A new show exhibits a rediscovered series of photographs Klein took on assignment in the early 1960s across West Africa, some never-before-seen.
By Christina Cacouris
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