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Tracy Barbutes @tracybarbutes.bsky.social · 1h

Love #Yosemite and the fabulous humans who care for the land and animals and visitors? Join a gathering on October 18, from 9am-12pm at the Yosemite National Park sign along Hwy 140 and show your support.

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 2h

Proud to participate, Nov 21-22

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 2h

Artists Plan Nationwide Protests Against ‘Authoritarian Forces’
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Artists Plan Nationwide Protests Against ‘Authoritarian Forces’

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 3h

“Picture the Power” exhibit opens Friday at Maison Freetown
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“Picture the Power” exhibit opens Friday at Maison Freetown

Celebrate the spirit of democracy and community at “Picture the Power,” a statewide photography exhibit opening Friday at Lafayette’s Maison Freetown

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 4h

Shields exhibit visually documents farmworker movement
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Shields exhibit visually documents farmworker movement

When famed farmworker photographer David Bacon started working for the United Farm Workers as an organizer in the 1970s, people asked what he — a “white boy” who “didn’t speak

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 6h

A Photographer Who Brought a Vanished Central European Jewry to Life
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A Photographer Who Brought a Vanished Central European Jewry to Life

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 18h

See the work of Antoni Lallican, the French photojournalist killed in a Russian drone strike in eastern Ukraine
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See the work of Antoni Lallican, the French photojournalist killed in a Russian drone strike in eastern Ukraine — Meduza

French photojournalist Antoni Lallican was killed in a Russian drone strike in eastern Ukraine on October 3. The attack wounded four others, including Ukrainian photojournalist Georgiy Ivanchenko, who...

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Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press @rcfp.org · 19h

Learn more about the 2025 Freedom of the Press Awards:

RCFP announces 2025 Freedom of the Press Award recipients

Freedom of the Press Awards, hosted by Judy Woodruff, return Oct. 15 to celebrate leaders in journalism and law

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 20h

Photographs of children’s backpacks, toys, baby food lids and toilet paper form part of “El Sueño Americano”, or, “The American Dream” exhibit at the Maltz Museum
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Maltz Museum exhibits migrants’ journeys to U.S. in 'The American Dream'

A floor-to-ceiling case of water jugs are only some of hundreds of items now on display in Beachwood, representing thousands of migrants’ journeys crossing the Arizona desert.

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 22h

Premiering at the BFI London Film Festival, Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story pays tribute to the photographer who turned Black pride into art
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Documentary honors photographer Kwame Brathwaite’s legacy

Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story celebrates the visionary photographer who reshaped how the world saw Black beauty, culture, and identity.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 1d

Five Works to Know by Seydou Keïta, ‘The Father of African Photography’
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Five Works to Know by Seydou Keïta, ‘The Father of African Photography’

Here are five of Malian photographer Seydou Keïta’s most iconic works.

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 2d

This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Let’s Support Native Art
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This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Let’s Support Native Art

Acknowledging Indigenous survivance is a start, but there's a critical need to turn recognition into tangible action.

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 2d

This wedding photographer now removes landmines for a group that's won a top prize
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This wedding photographer now removes landmines for a group that's won a top prize

The Mines Advisory Group has been removing landmines for more than three decades. This year, it received the Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, a prestigious award with a $3 million prize.

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 2d

Anthony Barboza’s retrospective at the New Bedford Art Museum looks at Black culture, history and society through the lens of a master photographer
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Anthony Barboza’s retrospective is powerful, moving and nostalgic - The New Bedford Light

The exhibit at the New Bedford Art Museum looks at Black culture, history and society through the lens of a master photographer.

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly. And when all was said and done, there were relatively few signed prints made in his lifetime. We often worked with photojournalists late in their lives to make signed prints for their legacies

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 3d

It is signed by Gordon Parks on the back of the print as was his custom. He only started making signed prints in the late 1990s. Indeed there are pri ts from LOC but the signed prints from his original negative are valued by collectors. We acquired many signed prints from him during his lifetime.

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 3d

"Printed later" according to the Christie's catalog, likely c.early 2000s

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4d

This image came together through anticipation, timing, and intuition - the core of political photojournalism, chief photographer Evan Vucci writes.

An AP photographer got word of potential Mideast peace by focusing on a note to the president

Evan Vucci is the chief photographer for The Associated Press in Washington, DC.

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 4d

This photographer wants to help women see what she sees—that they are beautiful, powerful
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This photographer wants to help women see what she sees—that they are beautiful, powerful

Galina Semenova is a fine art photographer and founder of Womanity Portrait Foundation, a nonprofit that uses photography to tell healing and empowering stories about women

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 4d

Christie's Photographs Sale in New York Achieves $3.6 Million; world auction record price for Gordon Parks American Gothic, Washington D.C., 1942
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Christie's Photographs Sale in New York Achieves $3.6 Million - Christie's

NEW YORK – Christie’s is pleased to announce the results of its Photographs sale, which concluded in New York on October 10. The online-only auction totaled $3.6 million, with a strong sell-through ra...

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 5d

Twenty Summers is proud to present Fragments in Time, a powerful two-person exhibition of work by renowned photojournalists Ashley Gilbertson and Franco Pagetti, opening today at Stanley presented courtesy of Monroe Gallery of Photography
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Twenty Summers

Twenty Summers is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit arts organization in Provincetown, Massachusetts, founded to foster public engagement with art and artists, and to honor the legacy of art in Provincetown.

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 5d

An AP photographer from Gaza shares the stories behind her images of the war
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An AP photographer from Gaza shares the stories behind her images of the war

AP photographer Fatima Shbair tells the stories behind some of her most poignant images from covering the war in her homeland, Gaza.

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 5d

Photos: ‘Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens’ at the Brooklyn Museum
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Photos: ‘Seydou Keïta: A Tactile Lens’ at the Brooklyn Museum

Billed as the most expansive North American exhibition of the iconic Malian photographer, the exhibition includes never-before-seen images, as well as textiles, jewelry, and garments used in his indel...

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