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World Press Photo of the Year Awarded to Samar Abu Elouf
In a year marked by global conflict, climate catastrophe, and mass migration, the 2025 World Press Photo of the Year serves as a searing reminder of the human cost of war. The award, given to Samar Abu Elouf for her deeply intimate portrait Mahmoud Ajjour, Aged Nine, places a child’s trauma at the center of our collective conscience.
Thursday April 17, 2025
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• Award : World Press Photo of the Year Awarded to Samar Abu Elouf
• Exhibition : The Third Dimension
• Book : Get Into Thing, the Legendary 1990s Black Queer Magazine
• Book : Central America in the Crosshairs of War
• Book : Blueprints of Waste: Cyanotypes Reimagined
• Archives : Masks in Photography
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In a year marked by global conflict, climate catastrophe, and mass migration, the 2025 World Press Photo of the Year serves as a searing reminder of the human cost of war. The award, given to Samar Abu Elouf for her deeply intimate portrait Mahmoud Ajjour, Aged Nine, places a child’s trauma at the center of our collective conscience.
By Jonas Cuénin
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Bruce Silverstein Gallery’s exhibition “Photographer as Sculptor, Sculptor as Photographer” redefines the boundary between photography and sculpture, showing how each medium can shape, and be shaped by, the other.
By Gaia Squarci
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The cult classic is now back in print with a facsimile edition of all 10 issues.
By Miss Rosen
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An unforgettable account of how misguided and illegal U.S. policies in Central America during the 1980s resulted in tens of thousands of deaths, created many of today’s problems along America’s Southern Border, and helped perpetuate a legacy of hawkish militarism at the expense of democracy and diplomacy.
By Scott Wallace
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In her book “Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Imperfections”, photographer Mandy Barker revives a Victorian photographic process to document a decade-long recovery of synthetic clothing fragments from the UK coastline.
Photographs by Mandy Barker
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Masks in Photography
If you are getting ready to put on your Carnival makeup, here is a motley panorama of masks; in other words, a look at a frequent motif in photography.
By Jean-Baptiste Gauvin
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Inside a 2019 book of McCartney’s previously unseen Polaroids.
By W.G. Gordon
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