The winning entries in the 2025 Mono awards, showcasing the best black and white images chosen from more than 3,500 entries and covering the categories of people, places and animals

“sometimes these images are discarded or we don’t have access to them,” he tells me, “or we have them in our family albums and we hold them dearly, but maybe the photographer is unknown. There are many interesting ways in how we view virtue and care around image making.”

Wicklow Mountains, Co Wicklow

“The image, in many ways, visually confirmed things that abolitionists — including formerly enslaved people — had been saying for the longest time: that violence was at the core of American slavery,” Matthew Fox-Amato

Dublin photography: A city that has vanished yet feels strangely familiar

Gilles reached the World Trade Center just before the second tower collapsed. The firemen in the photograph don’t know what’s hit them. The one holding an unlit flashlight, the one with the useless gurney-they stand in their desert of ruin, frozen before the obliteration of their expectations ….

In postwar Italy, the decisive moment was most often one of contrasts—between the wrinkled faces of the agrarian past and the well-tailored suits of Italy’s economic boom, between nostalgia for the Old World and the awareness that, frankly, it really wasn’t so nice.

The British Nigerian, Oscar-nominated photographer makes his solo debut at Hope 93, Fitzrovia, in The Purpose of Light – stories of global activism

Slieve Blooms, Co Offaly

Derryounce Forest, Co Offaly

Derryounce Lakes, Co. Offaly

“The memory of the prints I made then is hard to separate from the memory of the actual event of taking the photograph,”

Derryounce Forrest, Co Offaly

Labour leader James Larkin being arrested by R.I.C. otd# 1913 - Bloody Sunday during Dublin Lockout

Creative artistic works are seen by big tech as merely data freely available online to take (scrape) and commercially exploit, for AI training and refining purposes, in order to develop programs that compete with creators’ livelihoods.

Murrisk, Co Mayo

Depictions of rural life in the south during the Great Depression have been predominantly focused on whiteness, a fuller picture rarely seen. In a new exhibition, the private homes and public gathering spaces of Black southerners are seen in a range of photos that provide a corrective.

Coumshingaun, Co. Waterford

In 1966, 21-year-old French photojournalist Catherine Leroy ventured into the chaos of the Vietnam war, capturing the raw emotion and humanity of troops and civilians alike.

Funchal, Madeira

Probably an appropriate time to finally start Sinclair Lewis’s ‘It Can’t Happen Here’

Before It’s Gone is a series about the climate crisis and water scarcity in Morocco by photographer M’hammed Kilito, who highlights the degradation of countless oases

Rahim Fortune – Hardtack “I’m trying to use this book as a way of observing the historical relationship between Black Americans and photography.” - Rahim Fortune www.photobookstore.nl/product/rahi... #booksky #art #photography #artsky

Silver Strand, Co Mayo, Ireland

What a comeback against SA Australia! 22-0 down after 20 minutes to 38 unanswered points for 22-38 victory over the Springboks!

“Obviously a lot of war photography is anti-war photography, but it’s photography in a very particular mode. It’s often about showing destruction and the damage done by war. There aren’t often many spaces for positive peace.”

Archivist Deborah Carnegie has gathered 70 years’ worth of photos of women from the Windrush generation to the present day getting ready for a big evening out – and changing the face of fashion in the UK as they went

Call for Papers - Photography Ethics Symposium Queen’s University Belfast, June 3-4, 2026 Organised by Photographies journal & Photography Ethics Centre See link for details; 👇

Funchal, Madeira

For those interested in photography, picture libraries and drama, BBC 4 is showing Stephen Poliakoff’s brilliant 1999 mini-series Shooting the Past this evening; www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Funchal, Madeira

Monte Municipal Gardens (Park), Madeira

Technology, while seemingly neutral, is never neutral, especially in the hands of humans with all our biases and the culturally ingrained stereotypes that we knowingly or unknowingly carry.

Caught in the middle are the ordinary people—the single men, the young couples, the little children made to walk through this state-sponsored spectacle of intimidation.

History Lab warmly invites applications for its 2025-26 Committee. They are seeking enthusiastic & committed team members to fill a variety of roles that help to shape the intellectual & social life of their PGR community. Learn more: buff.ly/ur9JpsB Apply before: 15th August 2025

In a world beset with conflict, the 15th edition of Cortona on the Move photo festival focuses on reconciliation – personal, social and political. Exhibitions are spread across the ancient Tuscan hilltop town, featuring 76 artists from around the world. Come Together runs until 2 November

Contact Zones: Photography, Migration and Cultural Encounters in the United States, eds. Justin Carville & Sigrid Lien. (Leuven: Leuven University Press). Available in paperback and Open Access at LUP and @jstor.bsky.social

French firefighters are working overtime to halt a major wildfire that has left one person dead and destroyed several thousand hectares of land. Photos show the damage caused so far. http://jrnl.ie/6784449

Heide Museum of Modern Art is showing its first joint exhibition exploring the surrealist photography of Man Ray and Max Dupain. Heide’s director and curator Lesley Harding captions explain the works. On show now until 9 November.

In-person tix for this #photography talk @nationalgalleries.bsky.social are nearly gone - but a livestream is available to hear Pam Isherwood and Maggie Murray discuss Format, the agency est in 1983 (closed 2003) to represent women photographers. 🗃️📜📷📸🔥 Tuesday, Aug. 12th, 12.45-1.30 pm in Edinburgh

Brittas Forest Lake, Clonaslee, Co. Laois

Gaza’ showcases prints made using a variety of media including photomontage, double-exposed photographs, drawing and paint, in response to the daily reports and footage of the near-erasure of Gaza and the thousands of Palestinians killed.

Time to end the misinformation around the etymology of landscape which is especially prevalent in the arts. Read my latest substack -> open.substack.com/pub/davidxfl... #landscape #landscaperesearch #photographyresearch #phdresearch #visualculture

Funchal, Madeira

Croagh Patrick (The Reek), Co Mayo

Event on 30 September at the BnF in Paris with @siobhraaiken.bsky.social, @danielfoliard.bsky.social and many others. We’ll discuss the French representation of the Irish revolution. Looking forward to it ! www.bnf.fr/fr/agenda/la...

Very sad news on the passing of arts broadcaster Seán Rocks; an important and distinctive voice for culture and the arts on national radio

The thirty-five works presented here are taken from the nearly two hundred photographic pictures he produced since 1978. Formed piece by piece, the ensemble is both dense and extremely varied, crossed by recurrences and intersecting themes, with an acute sense of enigma.

The 2025 Wellcome Photography Prize highlights global health challenges through powerful images spanning domestic abuse, climate migration and microscopic disease