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CPW announced that Qiana Mestrich is the winner of the 2025 Saltzman Prize. The Saltzman Prize recognizes the extraordinary achievements of an emerging photographer whose recent work has garnered wider visibility and whose distinctive voice contributes fresh perspectives to the ongoing dialogue surrounding photography and visual culture. Qiana Mestrich will receive a $10,000 award, the 2025 CPW Vision Award for Emerging Photographer, and a solo exhibition of her work at…

The Saltzman Prize is awarded annually by the Saltzman Family Foundation, and was conceived by CPW Trustee Lisa Saltzman. The prize pays tribute to Ralph and Muriel Saltzman, both passionate collectors, passionate art patrons, and art philanthropists. Interview. Your journey as both a photographer and a philanthropist is quite unique. How do these two roles intersect for you, and how has your own artistic practice influenced the way you support…

Rapheal Begay (Diné) is an artist based in Tségháhoodzání (Window Rock, Arizona). His work uses cultural landscape photography and creative collaboration to celebrate and preserve the Diné way of life. Visual sovereignty, Indigenous storytelling traditions, and land-based knowledge inform his research and practice. Recent projects include ALL REZ: Kéyah, Hooghan, K’é, Iiná | Land, Home, Kinship, Life, the first traveling site-specific photography exhibition across the Navajo Nation. He holds a BFA in…

Samantha Box is a Jamaican-born, Bronx-based photographer whose work has been recently showcased in exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (DC), Le Rencontres d’Arles, and the Bronx Museum of Arts among other places. Her awards include a NYFA/NYSCA Fellowship in Photography (2010 and 2022). In 2023, she was shortlisted for the Aperture Portfolio Prize and the Louis Roederer Discovery Award, among others. Box was nominated for the…

Harlan Bozeman is a photographer, artist, and educator whose research-driven practice has focused on confronting the erasure of Black culture and its histories, and the legacies of slavery and its aftermath in the American South. His previous work explored the Gullah Sea Islands communities, specifically Wadmalaw Island where his family is from. He has been featured in The Atlantic and The New York Times. A Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas at Little…

Lucia Gorostegui is a photographer and visual artist who approaches her practice from her studies in physics, as a metaphor for the construction of individual and collective reality. She is particularly interested in the object-like condition of photography beyond the image itself. Her project Las Veces won the Casal Solleric Open Call for Projects 2024. She collaborates with institutions such as the CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva), and private entities…

Margot Kalach seeks the limits of the photographic medium through camera-less experiments and through recycling photographic waste to oxidize paper. She reflects on ideas of evolution from simple to complex forms and on intimate technologies to push the subject to the center of scientific structures. Kalach has exhibited her work at Reverberations (Cordoba Lab, Oaxaca, 2022), PhotoLondon 2023 (London, UK) and MACOfoto 2025 (Mexico). She is a co-founder of CROMA, an artist-run space…

Dakota Mace (Diné) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work draws from the history of her Diné heritage, exploring the themes of family lineage, community, and identity. In addition, her work pushes the viewer's understanding of Diné culture through alternative photography techniques, weaving, beadwork, and papermaking. Her work is in the collections of the Library of Congress, Forge Project Collection, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among other places. https://www.dakotamace.com/ www.cpw.org

Rene Matić is an artist and writer whose practice spans photography, film, and sculpture. They delve into the complex relationship between West Indian and white working-class culture in Britain, while privileging queer/ing intimacies, partnerships and pleasure as modes of survival. Their work converges in a meeting place they describe as "rude(ness)"–an evidencing and honoring of the in-between. Matić has exhibited their work at such places as Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New…

Lindsay Perryman is a multifaceted artist from Brooklyn, NY, whose work explores the existence and visibility of transgender identities. Perryman utilizes their practice to challenge and rewrite misconceptions about the spectrum of identity. The backdrop of their hometown serves as a significant influence, grounding their practice in a personal yet universal context. Perryman's work has been showcased in the Brooklyn Museum and MoCADA. Notable achievements include first place in the 2024…

Donavon Smallwood’s practice consists of finding ways to photograph what many observe as the details of life: subtle gestures, small mystifications, loose ends, and budding change. Never indifferent, always with love, Smallwood attempts to photograph as a witness to the beauty and ephemerality of the ordinary and everyday. Smallwood’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at Foam and Galerie Wouter van Leeuwen, and are in a handful…

This exhibition, titled Recess, features the work of 2024 Saltzman Prize winner Keisha Scarville (American, born 1975). Scarville makes photographs that consider her personal experience of in-betweenness, exploring notions of diaspora, transformation, belonging, and loss. In her photographs, she creates spaces, stages, and still lives, often using clothing and textiles belonging to her late mother. When Scarville invokes her mother’s presence in her works, she creates alternate, liminal places that…

Jean-Jacques Naudet: A Life in Images With "The Questionnaire", I wanted to open a window into the personal world of each of the photographers and lovers of beautiful images who agreed to participate. My goal: to immortalize the very essence of contemporary Photography by offering a unique glimpse into the inner lives of artists, their inspirations, and their worldview through questions that are both personal and professional. Therefore, to celebrate…

A beautiful tribute to Denis Brihat from Didier Brousse of the Galerie Camera Obscura. Denis Brihat passed away on December 3rd, 2024. With him, a whole chapter in the history of French photography has passed away. Brihat was indeed a major player in this history, first through his work, but also through his commitment to the recognition of photography, and finally through the teaching he provided over the years in…

The Centre de la photographie de Mougins presents Fushikaden by Japanese photographer Issei Suda. The harsh and belligerent light of summer bathes the street scenes in Fushikaden, the most iconic series by Japanese photographer Issei Suda. The images were taken in Tokyo, where he lives, but also and especially in the more distant provinces of Tohoku, Hokuriku, and Kanto, where he traveled during the 1970s to witness the matsuri, traditional…