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The Museum of Modern Art announces New Photography 2025, the 40th anniversary edition of MoMA’s celebrated New Photography series. On view from September 14, 2025, through January 17, 2026, this exhibition will bring together a group of 13 international artists and collectives, from four different cities around the world, who are expanding the horizons of the photographic medium in the 21st century. Each at various stages in their careers, these artists will be presenting these bodies of work for the first time in New York. Their creative contributions interweave personal narratives with structural, environmental, and colonial histories to consider forms of belonging that shape communities.
Since it was launched in 1985, New Photography has introduced MoMA audiences to the innovative practices of more than 150 international artists. The featured practitioners in New Photography 2025 work in and out of one of four cities that have existed as centers of life, creativity, and communion for longer than the nation states within which they are presently situated: Johannesburg, Kathmandu, New Orleans, and Mexico City.
New Photography 2025 is organized by Lucy Gallun, Curator; Roxana Marcoci, Acting Chief Curator and The David Dechman Senior Curator; Oluremi C. Onabanjo, The Peter Schub Curator; and Caitlin Ryan, Assistant Curator, Department of Photography.
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Sandra Blow. Allan Balthazar (2017) from Untitled. 2017-20. Inkjet print. 43 1/4 × 28 13/16″ (109.9 × 73.2 cm). © 2024 Sandra Blow
Tania Franco Klein. Mirrored Table, Person (Subject #14) from Subject Studies: Chapter 1. 2022. Inkjet print. 29 1/2 × 39 1/2″ (74.9 × 100.3 cm). © 2024 Tania Franco Klein. Courtesy the artist
Gabrielle Garcia Steib. Still from The Past is a Foreign Country. 2020. Super 8 and archival footage. 3 min. 19 sec. © 2024 Gabrielle Garcia Steib. Courtesy the artist
Gabrielle Goliath. Berenice 29–39 (detail). Eleven inkjet prints. Each 35 7/16 × 35 7/16″ (90 × 90 cm). © 2034 Gabrielle Goliath. Photo: Martin Parsekian
L. Kasimu Harris. “King” Joe Lindsey and his Royal Setup (Roberton’s Vieux Carre Lounge), New Orleans from Vanishing Black Bars and Lounges. 2022. Inkjet print. 24 x 36” (61 x 91.4 cm). © 2024 L. Kasimu Harris. Courtesy the artist
Lebohang Kganye. As if the darkness was calling out. 2022. Installation view of Staging Memories at Musée Jenisch, Switzerland. © 2024 Lebohang Kganye. Courtesy the artist and Musée Jenisch
Lake Verea (Carla Verea Hernández and Francisca Rivero-Lake). Hojas de Metal (Metal Leaves). 2019. Chromogenic print. 118 1/8 × 72″ (300 × 182.9 cm). © 2024 Lake Verea. Courtesy the artists
Sabelo Mlangeni. Faith and Sakhi Moruping, Thembisa Township (2004) from Isivumelwano. 2003-20. Gelatin silver print. 14 5/8 × 10 9/16″ (37.1 × 26.8 cm). © 2024 Sabelo Mlangeni
Sheelasha Rajbhandari. Agony of the New Bed (detail). 2023. Thirty inkjet prints on linen, embroidery thread, metal thread, glass beads, on 30 beds, wood, imitation gold leaf. Each 12 3/8 × 8 7/16 × 6 1/2″ (31.5 × 21.5 × 16.5 cm). © 2024 Sheelasha Rajbhandari
Renee Royale. River at Chalmette Battlefield (Fazendeville) from Landscapes of Matter. 2023. © 2024 Renee Royale. Courtesy the artist
Lindokuhle Sobekwa. Tell it to the Mountains. 2020. Installation view at A4 Art Foundation, South Africa, December 2020. © 2024 Lindokuhle Sobekwa. Courtesy the artist
Prasiit Sthapit. Saloni and friends (2013) from Change of Course. 2012-18. © 2024 Prasiit Sthapit. Courtesy the artist
Kanchanpur, Nepal. A mass meeting of former kamlaris (women bonded labourers) in Kanchanpur (2010) from The Public Life of Women: A Feminist Memory Project.. 2023. Digital Image. Courtesy GEFONT Collection / Nepal Picture Library.