Photography

October 7, 2026

Finalists in the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2026 Show the Sillier Side of Animals

If you’re looking for a reason to giggle today, you don’t need to look far. The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards 2026 has shared its finalists for this year’s competition, and the entries show a sillier side of the creature kingdom that’s sure to make you smile. From animal expressions that make you go, “Same,” to hilarious happenstance, it’s the lighter side of wildlife photography. The 2026 contest drew 10,000 entries from 112 countries—its highest ever.

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September 27, 2026

Large-Scale Photographs Weave Beauty, Decay, and Mortality Together in an “Ecological Tapestry”

At the Center for Photography Woodstock (CPW) in Kingston, New York, Tanya Marcuse brings together eight large-scale photographs from Woven: An Ecological Tapestry. The exhibition traces more than a decade of Marcuse’s fascination with growth, decay, and mortality. Alongside Woven, CPW will debut an 11-minute film, titled Deer, made with collaborator Ben Stechshulte, offering a new, time-based dimension to Marcuse’s work. Marcuse’s photographs initially overwhelm through their scale.

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September 23, 2026

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy Captured the Blood Moon Eclipse From a Hotel Parking Lot in Florida

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy shows you don’t need some fancy location to capture an amazing image. While photography is often about being in the right place at the right time, that “right” place can be as humble as a chain hotel parking lot. And he recently captured an incredible shot of a blood moon eclipse in exactly that.

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September 19, 2026

Exhibition Honoring Gordon Parks Offers Unique Tribute to His Pioneering Photographs

Beginning September 18, 2026, Jack Shainman Gallery in New York will present a career-spanning exhibition of photographs by Gordon Parks, one of the most consequential image-makers of the 20th century. Voices in the Mirror brings together photographs from across the artist’s remarkable oeuvre, from Harlem in the 1940s to the Civil Rights Movement and the segregated American South. Yet the exhibition looks beyond the photographs themselves.

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