New Photography 2025
This fall, New York’s MoMA celebrates forty years of fresh perspectives on the world with “New Photography 2025: Lines of Belonging.”
An exhibition that explores what it means to belong to a place, a history, a memory.
Thirteen artists and collectives from Johannesburg, Kathmandu, New Orleans, and Mexico City weave a network of visual correspondences. Photographs, videos, and installations become fragments of stories, traces shared between the intimate and the collective.
The fluid, non-hierarchical layout turns each gallery into a space of resonance where images converse with one another rather than simply being displayed.
Between a portrait from New Orleans and a landscape from Mexico, the gaze moves, hesitates, shifts.
The works fix nothing; they open things up. Here, photography becomes a matter of memory, presence, and dialogue. In the great hall, time stretches.
Archives are reinterpreted, territories reinvented, maps turned inward. From black and white to color, from the real to the sensory, everything invites a kind of visual listening.
Each space acts like a pause.
One senses the fragility of bonds, the beauty of belonging, the quiet strength of the ways we look at the world.
New Photography 2025 reminds us that to photograph is above all to share, transforming a personal vision into a collective experience.
As you leave the MoMA, the light on 53rd Street extends this feeling of openness. Between movement and memory, this new edition of New Photography offers a breath, an invitation to see the world differently through the invisible lines that connect us.