Photojournalism and Documentary Photography News: Sept. 21-26
Photo by Sean Rayford
BBC Invokes Iconic War Photos in Film Calling for Western Journalists to Enter Gaza (9.25.25)
“The BBC, AFP, AP, and Reuters have collaborated on a film that uses powerful news photographs from past conflicts to demand access to Gaza.”
Robert Nickelsberg discusses a life in photojournalism (Charlotte Magazine) 9.25.25
“Photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg sat down in Charlotte to discuss his career, explaining his focus on covering international affairs, his experiences as an American abroad and his projection for the future of the medium.”
Black Photojournalism comes into focus at Carnegie Museum of Art 9.24.25 (Pittsburg City Paper)
“That same fight for visibility played out daily on newspaper presses from Pittsburgh to Chicago, where Black photographers documented joy, struggle, and everyday life for readers who rarely saw themselves elsewhere. Photographers for the Pittsburgh Courier, the Chicago Defender, the Atlanta Daily World, and Ebony wielded cameras with urgency: to make Black life visible, to record both resistance and celebration, and to push back against a mainstream media that often ignored or distorted their communities.”
In the Moment: 40 Years of Reuters Photojournalism (Reuters) 9.24.25
Surveying 40 years of news photography at Reuters, this publication captures the very best of photojournalism, bringing together pictures and text to tell the stories behind iconic news imagery.
Madrid Museum Partners with UNRWA for Gaza Photojournalism Show (Art News) 9.24.25
Beginning this week, visitors to the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid will have an opportunity to see Gaza through the eyes of the journalists who, since October 7, 2023, have documented the conflict in the Strip.
Exhibit showcases Black photojournalism and untold stories in art (CW33) 9.24.25
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art will present ‘Black Photojournalism’ from March 15 to July 5, 2026, showcasing over 250 photographs by more than 60 photographers.
Review: Legend of the West shifts gears in ‘The Bikeriders’ at the Booth (AJC) 9.24.25
“Leather, chrome, smoke and a Leica camera: Danny Lyon mixed them into an image of America few had seen. When the young photographer embedded with the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle gang in the late 1960s, he didn’t just capture a subculture — he helped invent one. The resulting work shocked and fascinated audiences when his book “The Bikeriders” was first published in 1968.”
"Letting oneself be photographed is highly courageous": A retrospective of Paz Errázuriz's intimate gaze (British Journal of Photography) 9.24.25
In the summer of 1986, Paz Errázuriz began a monthly portrait series, photographing her son Tomás against an exterior wall of their home in Santiago, Chile. The project lasted four years, and in 2004 Errázuriz made it into a video piece titled Un Cierto Tiempo (‘a certain time’), currently on display as part of Paz Errázuriz: Dare to Look, at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes, which opened in July.
"Beauty of British seas": Young Ocean Photographer of the Year, Aaron Sanders (Oceanographic Magazine) 9.24.25
“The UK's very own underwater photographer and filmmaker, Aaron Sanders has been named Young Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025, having captured the judging panel's imagination for his image of two bobtail squid photographed at his local dive site, just off the coast of Devon.”
A Guide to October 2025 Photo Awards & Open Calls (pH) 9.24.25
“Fotofestiwal Open Call, Earth Partner Prize, W. Eugene Smith Grant, Hangar Art Open Call, Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award, and Sonntag Grant For Photography are among the opportunities we selected this month.”
As World Press Photo turns 70, is it time for photojournalism to move forward from a history of harm? (Art Newspaper) 9.24.25
“Mahmoud Ajjour was just nine years old when both his arms were severed during an Israeli attack on Gaza City. Three months later, in July 2024, the self-taught photojournalist Samar Abu Elouf took a moving photograph of the young boy.”
In Moldova’s Breakaway Transnistria Region, Life is Bittersweet (Balkan Insight) 9.23.25
A Dutch photographer looks past the stereotypes to portray life in Transnistria as hard – but also full of human warmth.
The Photojournalism Prize Officially Launches at the DOK Festival in Norway (OpenPR) 9.23.25
The global photography community today marks the official launch of the Photojournalism Prize (PJP), a new international award dedicated to recognizing the world's most compelling editorial and documentary photography. After a soft introduction earlier this year at the Lucie Awards in Ostuni, Italy, the Prize now takes center stage at the DOK Festival of Photojournalism in Fredrikstad, Norway.
Mapfre Foundation to exhibit American street photographer Helen Levitt's work (Catalan News)9.22.25
Exhibition will highlight Levitt's lesser-known works alongside famous documentations of daily life in New York City
Photo Shoot: Barry Donahue's lasting legacy ... (Cape Code Times) 9.22.25
“Shooting shapes and shadows again,” was a message I would often get from photojournalist Barry Donahue after his review of the day’s photos in the Cape Cod Times. I am not sure if Barry coined the phrase, but I heard it from him first. Its definition is self-explanatory, an artsy photograph, usually in black and white, and always eye-catching.
Snap Together: Larsh Bristol and the American Heritage Center (AHC) 9.22.25
But what happens to student photographers’ work after their fellowship ends? In spring 2025, we worked with the American Heritage Center to help reestablish a mutually beneficial connection between the AHC and the University of Wyoming’s Communication & Journalism (COJO).
For whom should we, as journalists, pray? Gaza or ourselves? (Daily Sabah) 9.22.25
“As the world bears witness to the devastation in Gaza, far too little attention is given to those who risk everything to document this reality, the journalists of Gaza, especially the photojournalists.”
Exclusive: Rage From the Mendiola Protests, According to Photojournalists (Rolling Stone) 9.22.25
“Amidst the ongoing debates over the Mendiola protests, photojournalists Raffy Lerma and Ezra Acayan share what it was like documenting those demanding for accountability in the streets on September 21”
'The best photos of us:' Tucson photographer chronicles 4 decades of punk band X (Tucson Sentinel) 9.22.25
Michael Hyatt doesn't know how he knew. But when he first came across X, the Los Angeles punk rock band, in 1980, he had a hunch the members were in it for the long haul."I was right," he said Thursday, sitting on the patio outside of Raging Sage Coffee Roasters. "Maybe it was just luck."
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