Discover the art of photography in context

• W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978)

The day-and-night work of general practitioner Ernest Guy Ceriani, presented as a black-and-white sequence shaped by actual events.

• Massimo Siragusa (1958)

Public architecture as national identity in Italy, rendered in light-toned pastel color, across squares, gardens, and monuments.

• Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966)

Early 20th-century Manhattan, blending Pictorialist techniques with modernist compositions.

• Alan Gignoux (1966)

Environmental degradation and human health pressures from bitumen extraction in Alberta, Canada, documented through aerial landscapes and portraits of affected communities.

• Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966)

An exploration of London’s urban and natural landscapes, emphasizing mood over realism.

• Sebastião Salgado (1944-2025)

Labor in global industries and local economies, as documentation of manual work disappearing with technological progress and economic restructuring.

• Andreas Gursky (1955)

State-organized Arirang mass games in Pyongyang, rendered as large-scale photographs of coordinated formations from an elevated viewpoint.

• Berenice Abbott (1898-1991)

Modernist exploration of 1930s New York's urban transformation, highlighting the contrast between historic architecture and the emergence of towering skyscrapers.

• Hayahisa Tomiyasu (1982)

Everyday behavior around a public ping-pong table, presented through sustained observation from a residential window in Leipzig over five years.

• Tadao Cern (1983)

Beach sunbathers through overhead views and personal items, with relevance to public behavior and everyday privacy.

• Roy DeCarava (1919-2009)

Harlem community and family life in the late 1940s and early 1950s, presented through black-and-white photographs and fictional narration.

• Martin Hill (1946)

Ecological fragility and natural cycles, rendered through photographs of ephemeral land sculptures from natural materials, in remote New Zealand landscapes.

• André Kertész (1894-1985)

An immigrant’s contemplative gaze on Parisian streets, capturing isolation and connection amidst a dynamic urban landscape.

• André Kertész (1894-1985)

Reading as a timeless act that links people through moments of quiet reflection.

• Mitch Epstein (1952)

Ancient trees within interdependent forest ecosystems across the United States, photographed with an 8 × 10 field camera.

• Brassaï (1899-1984)

Parisian nightlife during the interwar period, capturing the interplay of light and shadow in the city’s streets and social underworld.

• Mario Giacomelli (1925-2000)

Young seminarians at play in Senigallia, rendered through high-contrast black-and-white printing and movement blur.

• Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948)

Exploration of repetition, infinity, and time through symmetrical compositions highlighting subtle visual distinctions among Buddhist sculptures.