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A luminous portrait of Black life over six decades

Shared Memories — As staff photographer for The New York Times, Chester Higgins captured Black culture and spiritual connection like no other. A new exhibition celebrates his life and impact.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen
© Beverly Price

In photos: Washington DC’s Black communities facing up to gentrification

A Language We Share — A new exhibition featuring the work of Beverly Price and Gordon Parks preserves historically Black neighbourhoods in the USA, before development and economic forces made them disappear.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

When the Chelsea Hotel was New York’s countercultural epicentre

Closed doors, open minds — Albert Scopin’s new photobook collects photographs that were once thought to be lost, documenting the city’s creative scene that gathered during the building’s 1969 to 1971 heyday.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

The Strokes condemn US imperialism in Coachella set

Oblivius — The band finished their performance at the festival’s second weekend with a montage of bombings in Gaza and Iran, along with images of world leaders that the CIA has been accused of overthrowing over the past century.

  • Music
  • Noah Petersons

Confronting America’s history of violence against student protest

Through A Mirror, Darkly — In May 1970, two separate massacres at American college campuses saw deaths at the hands of the state. Naeem Mohaiemen’s new three-channel film memorialises the brutality. 

  • Activism
  • Miss Rosen

On the set of ‘La Bamba’, lost Latino legend Ritchie Valens’s biopic

The overnight rockstar — The Chicano rock & roll star exploded overnight in the late ’50s, but just as quickly he was gone, killed in a plane crash along with Buddy Holly. An ’80s biopic saw him immortalised on the big screen, which photographer Merrick Morton captured behind the scenes. 

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

Inside Bombay Beach, California’s ‘Rotting Riviera’

Man-made decay — The Salton Sea was created by accident after a failed attempt to divert the Colorado River in the early 20th century. Jack Burke reports from its post-apocalyptic shores, where DIY art and ecological collapse meet.

  • Culture
  • Jack Burke
© Charles Williams (1908-1986)

Historic photographs from the heyday of the Black press

Black Photojournalism — A new book immortalises the work of 57 Black photographers reporting in the mid-20th century for Black newspapers and magazines. Covering the Civil Rights Movement, Jesse Jackson and more, the pictures are part history, part art.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

Inside Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’

Flare pollution — Wayan Barre began photographing life in the 85-mile petrochemical industry corridor after moving to New Orleans. He found defiant activists, health problems and impoverishment.

  • Activism
  • Isaac Muk

Swan Moon’s cinematic portrait of growing up Korean in ’90s Los Angeles

Self reflections — Picking up her first camera at the age of eight, the photographer took countless shots of her life, friends and city to help make sense of her surroundings. Her new photobook looks back on those formative years.

  • Culture
  • Miss Rosen

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