Photos In Five // Newsletter 053

The Roundup

• The Hasselblad Foundation announces Zanele Muholi is the 2026 Hasselblad Award laureate

• Why all major photo services are boycotting college basketball games managed by The Gazelle Group

• Alice Mann’s photos depict the glamour of South Africa’s prom nights

• Winners of the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2026

• This woman invented the solution to lens flare – you’ve probably never heard of her, but every photographer should thank her

• The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) presented Michael Bauman its 2026 Theatrical Feature Film award for One Battle After Another

• Underwater Photographer Helps Free a Humpback Whale Entangled in Fishing Gear

• Ken Griffey Jr. turned heads with amazing photo he took as WBC photographer

• I’m begging photographers not to use AI to write their Instagram captions. Here’s why it’s such a bad idea

• Winner of the 2026 CPW Saltzman Prize

Book/Zine Releases:

• What if Jeff were a Butterfly? by Jeff Mermelstein

• Intervall 2′-5′ by Sebastian Weissinger

• Between The Red White & Blue by Mark Luke Grant

• El menso metió la cabeza en un hormiguero by Sofía Ayarzagoitia

• Un regard vagabond by Denise Bellon

Noteworthy Events:

• Sabotage by Salvatore Vitale at Photo Elysée - 03.06 thru 05.31 (Switzerland)

• Circulation(s) 2026 - 03.21 thru 05.17 (Paris)

• MIA Photo Fair 2026 - 03.19 thru 03.22 (Italy)

• The Shape of Our Eyes, Other Things I Wouldn't Know by Davide Sartori at Triennale Milano - Now thru 03.22 (Italy)

• The Darkroom City Tour SF - 03.21 (SF, CA)

• American Images by Dana Lixenberg at MEP - Now thru 03.24 (France)

• Rotterdam Photo 2026 - 03.25 thru 03.29 (Netherlands)

• Unseen Photo 2026 - 03.27 thru 03.29 (Netherlands)

• Meanwhile at Fotografiska Stockholm - Now thru 03.01 (Sweden)

• Exposure Photography Festival 2026 - Now thru 03.05 (Canada)

• Alejandro Cartagena: Ground Rules - Now thru 04.19 (SF, CA)

• Uqbaroxy by Zoe A. Keller and Batia Suter at Centre de la photographie Genève - Now thru 05.09 (Switzerland)

• The House by The Anonymous Project/Lee Shulman at Hangar - Now thru 05.17 (Belgium)

• Family Stories at Hangar - Now thru 05.17 (Belgium)

• Global Warning by Martin Parr - Now thru 05.24 (France)

• (Inter)faces Of Predictions by Sheung Yiu at C/O Berlin - Now thru 056.10 (Germany)

• Face Value - Celebrity Press Photography - Now thru 06.21 - (NY, NY)

• No Place Like Home. Italian Photography Since The 1980s. - Now thru 07.26 (Germany)

Take My Money:

• TTArtisan Tilt-Shift 17mm F4 ASPH

• YASHICA x Peanuts DigiPocket Camcorder

• The Ligar Camera by Escura

• Sigma 35mm f/1.4 II

• Harman Launches Azure Film

• YASHICA Tank Compact Digital Camera

Video Inspiration:

• Traveling with camera gear sucks, but this doesn’t

• What I wish I'd known about Lenses sooner.

• The Hardest Part About Street Photography — Walkie Talkie with Reuben Radding (part 2)

• This might be the best viewer work ever sent in!

• Why Mastering Camera Basics Is Important - With Alan Schaller