January 25 – April 20, 2025
Challenging long-standing inequities and misrepresentation, this exhibition will present compelling assertions of pride, tenderness, resilience, humor and hopefulness, and moments of play, joy and rest. Looking beyond the often reductive narratives of crisis and struggle that traditionally characterize representation of working-class people and communities in British arts institutions, Lives Less Ordinary champions a gaze from within, from artists from working-class backgrounds who have used their creativity to reflect wide-ranging experiences and identities, depicting and defining their culture and communities on their own terms.
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s photographic Step by Step series joins ceramics, film, painting, and sculpture on view which explores a nuanced and authentic reflection of working-class experience, within an architectural setting that both manifests and interrogates wealth and privilege
Exhibition: Critical Places; Sites of American Slave Rebellion
Columbia UNIVERSITY School of INTERNATIONAL and public affairs, New YorK
February 3 - 28, 2025
Opening Reception February 4th at 5pm
Presented in this exhibition are four of the fifteen sites where Mikael Levin investigates how rebellions of the enslaved are remembered, or not remembered, in the landscape. In marking these sites as critical places in a topography of historical consciousness, he invites us to consider how these revolts still echo in social patterns and economic structures. His photographs give form to memory. The four rebellions selected here range from the most obscure to the best known. They all remind us of the countless acts of leadership by ordinary people in the face of injustice, and the important role of artists in preserving these events, often in fresh and unexpected ways.
RSVP by 12pm on Monday February, 3rd.
EXHIBITION: dans le flou [Out of focus, another vision of art from 1945 to the present day]
musée de l’orangerie, Paris France
April 30 - August 18, 2025
Initially defined as “loss of distinctness”, blurriness has shown itself to be the favourite means of expression in a world where instability reigns and visibility is clouded. It was on the ruins left by the Second Word War that this out-of-focus aesthetic took root and began to deploy its inevitably political dimension.
Kikuji Kawada’s triptych of clouds passing over the moon joins works by Francis Bacon, Christian Boltanski, Nan Goldin, Yves Klein, Claude Monet, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Pipilotti Rist, Ugo Rondinone, Mark Rothko, Bill Viola among others.
Sirkka-liisa Konttinen’s New Book Writing in the sand
We are thrilled that UK publisher Dewi Lewis has just released this seaside marvel. First printed 25 years ago (and long out-of-print) Writing in the Sand has been updated with additional images in beautiful tritone.
One review: “Beyond its aesthetic and technical brilliance, Writing in the Sand offers an invitation to reflect on the broader themes of change, impermanence, and continuity. The beach, with its ever-shifting sands and tides, is a powerful metaphor for life itself, a constant state of flux where nothing remains exactly as it was. Konttinen's work captures this paradox with remarkable sensitivity…” Order from our shop here
Photo London Book Signing with Dewi Lewis May 15th Friday 3-5pm
NEW CHAPTER - April 25, 2025
After almost 16 fast-paced, fun and fulfilling years on New York’s Madison Avenue, it is exciting to announce the next stage in my career. I am transitioning from running the Gallery to working as a private dealer in photography. To coincide with AIPAD’s Photography Show at the Park Avenue Armory, a block away, we will celebrate our final day, from 2-6pm at the Gallery on Friday, April 25th. We hope you’ll stop by to mark this next chapter!
TURCHin cENTER, BOONE, NC
JOHN COHEN: IMAGE AND MUSIC
June 6 - December 13, 2025
Focusing on the people, musicians and rural communities, this exhibition covers a large part of Cohen’s photographs made in North Carolina, Virginia and Kentucky in the late 1950s and early 60s. Photographer, filmmaker, musician, and folklorist, John Cohen visited Appalachian State University to play his guitar with The Dust Busters during the Black Banjo Gathering in March 2010. His work is now being presented in the region where much of it was made - an area central to his own practice.
Les Rencontres / Arles, July - October, 2025
KIKUJI KAWADA: Endless Map - Invisible
Embodying in different ways what the photographer refers to as 'the demons lurking in the era', these haunting impressions, seen collectively, deliver a pertinent meditation on history, trauma and perception that nevertheless remains open to interpretation. -AnOther Magazine
Moving through the decades, Kawada’s work reveals an evolving artistic language – one that embraces new techniques and technologies to reflect a world in constant flux. -The Guardian
As enthusiasts from near and far gather in the south of France for this much anticipated annual photography festival, Sygma and Kyotographie jointly present an exhibition of four seminal series, spanning 70 years of Kikuji Kawada’s photography. Inaugurated in Kyoto last year, it is now on view for audiences outside Japan to witness the breadth and progression of this artist’s vision.
Press highlighting this exhibition:
AnOtherMagazine (July 24, 2025)
Dazed (July 11, 2025) - Great interview
The Eye of Photography/ L’Oeil
FishEye Magazine (July 9, 2025)
The Guardian (July 13, 2025)
New York Times (July 11,2025)
Le Monde (July 11, 2025)
Phototrend (July 9, 2025)
New york times
hiroshima and the end we refuse to imagine
jason farago and kikuji kawada
August 6, 2025
Eighty years ago today, the United States sent an American B-29 bomber plane to Hiroshima to drop an atomic bomb on the city. The results were inconceivable.
NEW BOOK: too much time: women in prison
Le bec en l’air, 2025
Jane Evelyn' Atwood’s book on women in prison presents ten years of research, outreach, visits and correspondence she undertook to document women in prisons in ten different countries. This reissue of the highly influential this publication first published in 2000 allows the pubic to once again delved into the stories of injustice, double standards, and fighting back.
Reviews:
leica. A century of photography
Fernán Gómez. Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid, Spain
September 10, 2025 - January 11, 2026
The exhibition "Leica. A Century of Photography" celebrates the 100th anniversary of the creation of the brand's first camera, the legendary Leica I. 174 photographs weave an exceptional journey across the work of great international photographers including Bruce Davidson, Elliott Erwitt, Alberto Korda, Ralph Gibson, Sebastião Salgado, Steve McCurry, Joel Meyerovitz, and Jane Evelyn Atwood.
Deutsche Börse prize - short list for 2026
Announced Oct 21, 2025 - Jane Evelyn Atwood, who was awarded the distinction of France’s Officier des Arts et des Lettres is one of four candidates short listed for the prestigious Deutsch Börse Award. Atwood is shortlisted for her publication ”Too Much Time / Trop de Peines”, a revised, bilingual reprint of two works originally published in 2000 and updated by Le Bec En L’Air, Marseille in 2024. This publication stems from a ten-year investigation during which she accompanied incarcerated women in forty prisons across nine countries in the 1990s.
Paris Photo Book Signing: Friday, November 14, 4pm at Le bec en l’air booth K08
Press: The Guardian
Artsy
Euro News
Foto Magazin
ArtReview
ArtLyst
El Decano
book signing: jane evelyn atwood
Paris Photo: Saturday, November 14, 4pm
At the publisher’s booth: Le Bec en l’air #K08
On Saturday, the artist, recently short-listed for the Deutsche Börse Prize for the book Trop de Peines (Too Much Time) will be signing this publication at the fair. The re-issue of this widely lauded and long out of print 2000 book covers a powerful project undertaken by the artist between 1989-1998. Atwood not only photographed women prisoners in forty prisons in nine different countries over the course of a decade but, importantly, she gave many of them agency to tell their their own stories and included these in the book
exhibition: mikael levin Silence
November 10, 2025 - January 17, 2026
This exhibition presents three projects produced by Mikael Levin over a 30 year period. Featuring a video from Critical Places - his Guggenheim Fellowship-awarded series - and photographs from the Au Bord series and his Chinati Foundation Residency, this exhibition reveals Levin's enduring exploration of silence, absence, history and place.
Image: a still from his video: The Massacre at Negro Fort / Prospect Bluff, Florida, 2024
EXHIBITION: STILL GLASGOW
November 29, 2025 -June 13, 2027
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
An exhibition with photography from Glasgow Life Museums’ collection at its core, it begins its run as celebrations of Glasgow 850 – the anniversary of the city becoming a burgh – draw to a close. It will remain open throughout 2026, GoMA’s 30th anniversary year. Jane Evelyn Atwood’s work on the Great Eastern, one of the city’s best known landmarks first built as a cotton mill and later transitioned to hostel, is drawn from the Gallery’s collection.
Press: The Guardian
Herald Scottland
Herald Scottland
Scottish Field
The Scotsman