Photo Review 50th Anniversary!

The Photo Review 50th Anniversary Symposium

Celebrating Philadelphia’s place in the history of photography and the role of The Photo Review in promoting photography locally and nationally over its 50-year existence.

Join us at the Perelman Auditorium of the Philadelphia Museum of Art on May 29–30, 2026.

Registration is free.

The 2026 International Photography Competition is Open!

Now in its 41st year, The Photo Review International Photography Competition offers photographers worldwide the opportunity to have their work juried by Dr. Sarah Kennel of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, exhibited at the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia, and published in one of photography’s most respected journals. Entries are accepted through May 20, 2026. 

First Prize – Ron Cooper: Lauren Grayhawk, Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, 2018

Third Prize – Ryn Clarke: Crimson Dahlias

J.K. Lavin: Eye

Our recent publication, Quarantine: Artists and Writers on Isolation, is an apt volume for our time.

By photographer Bill Armstrong and with an introduction by the noted critic Lyle Rexer, the book’s transformative, timely portraits and text take a look at artists’ and writers’ views on plague, quarantine, and isolation throughout history. Learn more about this new book and its accompanying prints, available to subscribers and the public alike.

The Photograph Collector

Comprehensive and informed: A journal for those who need to know what’s happening in all aspects of the market for collectible photographs.

The Photo Review

Lucid and incisive: Our critical journal of fine art photography, publishing since 1976.

Events

Lively and supportive: Our auction, competition, and garden party bring photographers together and help the arts thrive.

Alvin Langdon Coburn The Octopus, New York, 1912 (The Coburn Archive, The International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House)

…a knowledge of photography is just as important as that of the alphabet. The illiterate of the future will be ignorant of the use of the camera and pen alike.

László Moholy-Nagy

1936