Round Up of the Week of Jan 6
/The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries
8 New York City Art Shows to Kick Off the New Year
It’s 2025 and time to start a new year of exploring art — and there’s already plenty to see. While shimmering gold and sequins from artists like Machine Dazzle and Myrlande Constant are ideal to cut through the winter gray.
For Yasmina Hilal, photography is just one piece of the puzzle
Not all photography exists in a frame – at least, Yasmina Hilal’s frame isn’t exactly orthodox. The artist, born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon, first picked up a camera when she was inspired by her mother, who was Hilal’s “first teacher,” but her work very much extends beyond the lens.
Black Box: A Photographic Memoir by Dona Ann McAdams
Black Box, a memoir by award-winning American photographer Dona Ann McAdams, combines fifty years of black and white photography with the photographer’s own short lyric texts she calls “ditties.”
Photographer Captures Frozen Prairie Lands in Minus 30 Degrees
Angela Boehm from Saskatchewan, Canada was of the same mindset. “I found myself grumbling about yet another day I couldn’t photograph because of the biting cold — it was minus 30 degrees Celsius outside,”
Syria Faces Its Past and Its Future
Two days after the Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad fled his palace, Moises Saman and I arrived in Damascus to witness the beginning of a profound reckoning.
