Briana Ellis-Gibbs

A photographic gallery presents artworks and documentary images depicting resistance to Jim Crow, racial injustice, war and social exclusion in the United States. Works by Kara Walker, Bruce Davidson, Ralph Gibson, Peter Williams, Reggie Burrows Hodges, Carol Summers, Spider Martin and Lyle Ashton Harris connect historical civil rights struggles with broader traditions of protest and community activism, including Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1965 march speech.

A selection from New York’s Latin American Foto Festival presents documentary photography about Indigenous land defense, migrant journeys, environmental damage, cultural traditions and family identity across Latin America. The featured projects portray Tz’utujil Maya women restoring Lake Atitlán, Chilean communities confronting mining and water exploitation, Indigenous resistance in Brazil, Venezuelan migration through the Darién Gap, the preservation of cumbia and indigo traditions, and intimate experiences of family, gender-based abuse and illness.

A photographic gallery explores Yves Saint Laurent’s relationship with fashion imagery, presenting portraits, Polaroids and editorial photographs alongside designs from his haute couture collections. The selection highlights his use of pop art, geometric references and collaboration with prominent photographers in images produced in Paris and for major fashion magazines.

A photo gallery presents works by numerous American photographers exploring democracy, protest, civil rights, Indigenous identity, migration, incarceration, education and community life across the United States. The images include historical documentation of labor and political movements alongside contemporary portraits and examinations of borders, identity and social divisions.

The gallery presents photographs and mixed-media works from New York’s Upstate Photography Biennial, covering queer and lesbian activism, nightlife, domestic life, migration, family memory, political conformity, astronomical archives and the effects of war. Featured artists include Morgan Gwenwald, Lyle Ashton Harris, Luis Manuel Diaz, Meryl Meisler and others whose projects connect personal experience with broader social and historical narratives.

A Guardian photo gallery presents work from Harlem’s Expanding the Walls photography program alongside images from the Studio Museum in Harlem’s collection. Participating teenagers describe photography as a way to express emotions, explore family and identity, notice overlooked beauty, and allow viewers to create their own narratives. The gallery spans works made between 2003 and 2025, emphasizing the program’s role in connecting young photographers with artistic practice, personal history, and community.

Marilyn Monroe fans and lookalikes gathered in Palm Springs to mark the actor’s 100th birthday. The event featured visitors wearing replicas of her famous white dress and styling platinum-blond wigs, with activities taking place near the city’s 26-foot Monroe statue and at the Hyatt hotel. Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson in Los Angeles on 1 June 1926 and had frequently visited Palm Springs.

A photo gallery presents Janette Beckman’s street portraits and scenes from New York City between 1990 and 2025, including Puerto Rican and St Patrick’s Day parades, neighborhood life, children, families, barbershops and public celebrations. Beckman describes wandering unfamiliar neighborhoods with her Hasselblad camera and approaching people directly, capturing the city’s cultural diversity, energy and changing streets. She continues to document New York and teaches street portraiture at the School of Visual Arts.

Photographer Diana Markosian’s project Replaced recreates intimate moments from a past relationship using an actor to portray her former partner. Revisiting places they once shared, including Miami, Paris, Naples, Capri and Nice, allowed her to confront heartbreak and reclaim memories, though the process was painful and at times traumatic. The exhibition at Gallerie d’Italia in Turin combines photographs, diary notes and a hotel-like installation divided into pink and blue spaces symbolizing love gained and lost. Markosian says the work is less about getting over her ex than processing the past and offering others a path toward healing.

A Princeton University exhibition examines how photographers including Minor White, Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind reshaped art photography from the 1940s through the 1970s. Their influence extended beyond image-making into magazine publishing, museum collections and higher education, while artists such as Ming Smith and Donna-Lee Phillips broadened the field through explorations of African American life, identity, text and visual perception.

A selection of American and German posters from the First and Second World Wars shows how books and reading were promoted as tools of education, morale and resistance. The works encouraged troops to use libraries, urged civilians to send books to soldiers, and criticized Nazi censorship, book burning and propaganda. The gallery also highlights wartime support organizations including the American Library Association, YMCA and United War Work Campaign, as well as the role of women welfare workers serving troops in France.

A visual selection from New York’s AIPAD Photography Show presents works by internationally diverse photographers working across portraiture, landscape, abstraction, staged tableaux and experimental photographic processes. Featured themes include female nudity, feminist perspectives, LGBTQ+ identity, migration and womanhood, memory, psychology, architecture, social criticism and the effects of digital life. Artists include Bill Brandt, Zanele Muholi, Rania Matar, Andy Mattern, Gregory Crewdson and Miguel Rio Branco, alongside emerging and contemporary practitioners using techniques such as embroidery, hand-colored prints, Japanese papers, gold leaf and layered photographic exposures.

A Guardian photo gallery presents Sheida Soleimani’s Ghostwriter series, which explores Iranian tenderness, family history, refugee survival and care for animals through staged, surreal imagery. Soleimani discusses her parents’ political persecution, her opposition to conventional portraiture and colonial approaches to photography, and her use of props and Snakes and Ladders as visual language. The series also draws attention to ongoing repression and restricted communication in Iran.

A photo gallery documents the Artemis II mission launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, showing the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft, astronauts Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, Jeremy Hansen and Christina Koch, journalists, families and spectators preparing for and watching the lunar mission lift off.

A photographic gallery by Eddie Otchere presents rarely seen and unpublished images of Wu-Tang Clan members, primarily captured in London between 1994 and 2004. Otchere’s candid recollections describe the group’s unruly energy and mythic presence, while additional portraits feature Black Star, Jay-Z, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Lauryn Hill, Nas, Aaliyah and the Jungle Brothers. The work is published as Wu-Tang Clan 1994-2004 by Café Royal Books.

An exhibition at New York’s Poster House examines posters advertising Black performers and Black-centered stories on stage and screen from the 1870s through the 1940s. The works document efforts to counter blackface and dehumanizing stereotypes, expand representations of Black identity, and promote films and theater featuring Black casts. The gallery also shows how advertising could reproduce racist conventions, while surviving posters provide rare evidence of productions whose performances and films have been lost.

Four plaintiffs describe lawsuits challenging Trump administration policies: Fernando Viera Reyes alleges inadequate medical care and inhumane conditions in ICE detention; Mohsen Mahdawi says his detention after pro-Palestinian advocacy violated free-speech rights; Zaya Perysian challenges passport gender markers for transgender people; and pastor Jon Carlson seeks protection for immigrants in houses of worship. Their cases reflect broader legal resistance to the administration’s immigration enforcement and rollback of transgender, protest and religious freedoms.

Photographs document Minneapolis-area protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE officer. Images show demonstrators, clergy, students and community leaders marching, holding memorials and confronting federal agents, as well as clashes involving tear gas, raids and detentions in Minneapolis and nearby St Paul between 7 and 14 January 2026.

A photographic gallery explores New York’s immigrant experience through historical and modern images from the collections of the New-York Historical’s Patricia D. Klingenstein Library. The photographs depict family life, religious communities, children, street scenes, businesses, neighborhoods and public transit across places including Chinatown, Flushing and Jackson Heights, spanning roughly the 1890s to the 1990s.

A Guardian photo gallery documents protest art and demonstrations across the United States in 2025, including an ice sculpture symbolizing melting democracy, satirical Trump-Epstein and Pete Hegseth imagery, memorials for George Floyd and people detained by ICE, human banners, pro-Palestinian actions, immigration protests, LGBTQ+ street art, and calls to free Mahmoud Khalil and Kilmar Ábrego García. The images highlight how artists and demonstrators used public installations, murals, posters and performance to address political power, deportation, racial justice, war in Gaza and civil rights.