The Robert Koch Gallery is pleased to announce that gallery artist Matt Black has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow, recipient of the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, widely known as the “genius grant.” The award recognizes his extraordinary body of work chronicling America’s social and environmental dilemmas.
Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky was named #2 on The Independent’s 2025 Climate 100 List for his impactful photographic work highlighting humanity’s environmental impact. This list honors environmental leaders whose work provides critical insights into the climate crisis. Burtynsky’s placement underscores the power of visual art in communicating complex environmental messages.
The Robert Koch Gallery is pleased to share that gallery artist Matt Black has been awarded a prestigious 2025 Pollock‑Krasner Foundation Grant, recognizing his powerful work documenting the country’s social and environmental issues. His photographs confront economic inequality, migration, and climate impact with unflinching honesty. The Pollock‑Krasner Foundation Grant will support Black’s ongoing New World Atlas series, structured in 17 chapters, one for each state west of the 100th meridian. We are proud to represent Matt Black and to support his ongoing practice.
From June 19 to September 28, 2025, the International Center of Photography (ICP) presents The Great Acceleration, Edward Burtynsky’s first solo institutional exhibition in New York City in over twenty years. The exhibition features more than seventy photographs, including both well-known images and previously unseen works. Additionally, it includes three ultra-high-resolution murals, which offer a sweeping look at Burtynsky’s exploration of human-altered landscapes.
David Campany, Creative Director at ICP, curated The Great Acceleration and traces the visual and narrative evolution of Burtynsky’s work. He emphasizes both the fragility and striking beauty of the environments Burtynsky documents. Timed to coincide with Climate Week NYC in September 2025, the exhibition invites reflection and action. This timely exhibition highlights ICP’s commitment to photography that tackles pressing global issues.
The ICP show has already received strong press coverage, with pieces published in The New Yorker, BBC, National Geographic, Billionaire Magazine, Musée Magazine, The Art Newspaper, Flaunt Magazine, Fast Company, and The Guardian. Additional forthcoming coverage includes Document Journal, The New York Times, Artforum, and more.
Installation views © Charles Roussel
On view at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Palazzo Cini, Venice, Italy from April 17 to September 8, 2025, Spazi, soglie, luci (Spaces, Thresholds, Light) coincides with the 19th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia and explores Ljubodrag Andric’s photographic investigation of space and architecture. His work transcends objective reality, blending abstraction and materiality. Each image, tied to a specific location, evokes an immaterial, contemplative dimension.
Presented at Palazzo Cini in Venice, the exhibition features 16 works that connect Andric’s travels in India (2021–2024) with his residency at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, tracing visual resonances between Italian and Indian architecture.
Jeff Brouws’ work will be included in the Norton Museum of Art’s exhibition, Blur / Obscure / Distort: Photography and Perception, on view from April 5 to July 20, 2025. The exhibition explores how photographers use visual ambiguity to challenge perception, with works by artists such as Uta Barth, André Kertész, and Francesca Woodman.
Brouws’ photographs often engage with the American landscape, documenting overlooked spaces, vernacular architecture, and the evolution of the built environment. His work reflects a deep interest in the intersection of history, culture, and visual representation, often drawing from conceptual and documentary traditions.
The AIPAD Photography Show 2024
April 25 – 28 | The Park Avenue Armory, NYC | Booth C04
Featuring work by:
Ljubodrag Andric • Édouard Baldus • Matt Black • Zana Briski • Edward Burtynsky • Tamas Dezsö • František Drtikol • Josef Koudelka • Jacques-Henri Lartigue • Gustave Le Gray • Charles Marville • Irving Penn • Josef Sudek • Julian Vannerson • Charles Leander Weed • Nancy Wilson-Pajic • Michael Wolf
Edward Burtynsky’s largest and most comprehensive retrospective survey exhibition to date is on view from February 14 through May 6, 2024, at the Saatchi Gallery in London. Extraction / Abstraction delves into the key subjects and signature images spanning his 45-year career. Alongside Burtynsky’s compelling photographs, the accompanying exhibition monograph features texts by celebrated art historian Simon Schama, who examines Burtynsky’s work in light of the question, “Can art help save the world?”, and curator Marc Mayer, former director of the National Gallery of Canada, who provides an overview of the photographer’s achievements as a technician, journalist, and artist.
With heavy hearts, we bid farewell to the longtime gallery artist and photography legend, Elliott Erwitt, who peacefully passed away in his sleep on November 30, 2023 at his home in New York, surrounded by family. He was 95. As one of the last living legends of photography, his photographs captured the essence of the human experience with unparalleled wit and sensitivity. It has been the gallery’s honor to have represented and exhibited Elliott’s work throughout the years.
We are thrilled to share the news that “Matt Black: The Central Valley and Mexico” has been selected as a finalist for the Gallery Exhibition of the Year award, presented by the prestigious Lucie Awards.
The Lucie Awards was launched in 2003 as part of the Lucie Foundation’s mission to honor master photographers, discover and cultivate emerging talent, and promote the appreciation of photography worldwide. Over the years, we have paid tribute to over 172 of the most important figures in contemporary photography through the Lucie Awards.
The Denver Art Museum will present 32 photographs from Trent Davis Bailey’s “The North Fork” in what will be the artists largest exhibition to date. The exhibition opens on July 30, 2023 and will be on view until February 11, 2024. Titled “Personal Geographies: Trent Davis Bailey | Brian Adams,” the exhibition will be in two adjoining galleries: one with Trent Davis Bailey’s photographs and the other displaying Iñupiaq photographer Brian Adams.
Alex Webb: Errand and Epiphany is on view at the Museum Helmond, Netherlands from March 25 through October 1, 2023. The exhibition presents 85 large-format photographs shot in the Caribbean, Haiti, Mexico, Cuba, Latin America, Europe and the USA. In addition Alex Webb: Errand and Epiphany features a continuous screening of his short film about Istanbul, the city of a hundred names: ancient and modern, Islamic and secular. Museum Helmond has the privilege of showing the first ever institutional survey of Webb’s oeuvre which encompasses more than forty years of photography.
We are proud to announce that Edward Burtynsky has been inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame. The International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum honors those who have made great contributions to the field of photography and preserves historic photographs and cameras to share with the world. Past inductees include Ansel Adams, Steve Jobs, André Kertész, Cindy Sherman, Robert Frank, Annie Leibovitz, Gordon Parks, Berenice Abbott, Sebastião Salgado, among others.
The Armory Show
Sept. 9 – 11 | Javits Center NYC | Booth 110
Featuring work by:
Ljubodrag Andric • Roger Ballen • Matt Black • Edward Burtynsky • Robert Heinecken • Nadav Kander • Adam Katseff • Irving Penn • Michael Wolf
The AIPAD Photography Show 2022
May 19 – 22 | The Armory NYC | Booth 100
Featuring work by:
Matt Black • Edward Burtynsky • Josef Ehm • Foto Ada • Jaromír Funke • John Beasley Greene • Nadav Kander • Adam Katseff • György Kepes • László Moholy-Nagy • Mimi Plumb • Josep Sala • Arthur Siegel
Gallery artist Roger Ballen has been selected to represent South Africa at the 2022 Venice Biennale. Held every two years since its founding in 1895, the Biennale Arte is a highlight event on the international arts calendar. The 59th International Art Exhibition will take place from 23 April to 27 November 2022
The World Photography Organisation has awarded Canadian photographer, Edward Burtynsky, as the Outstanding Contribution to Photography recipient of the Sony World Photography Awards 2022. Widely regarded as one of the world’s most accomplished contemporary photographers, Burtynsky is best known for his sweeping images of industrial landscapes and the wider environmental crisis.
PhotoAlliance lecture with with Mimi Plumb and Dennis Hearne, November 12th at San Francisco Art Institute Osher Lecture Hall.
Bay Area photographer Mimi Plumb has explored subjects ranging from her suburban Northern California roots to the United Farm Workers movement. This month Stanley Barker releases Plumb’s third book The Golden City, featuring her photographs of San Francisco from 1984 through 2020. A solo exhibition of work from her previous book, The White Sky, is currently on view at Robert Koch Gallery (October 4 – November 26, 2021).
Introductory speaker Dennis Hearne will be sharing a selection of photographs taken in North Beach, San Francisco, where he has lived since 1965.
Due to safety protocols, tickets to the in-person lecture are limited to 100. Please remember mask and proof of vaccination are required.
The Armory Show
Sept. 9 – 12 | Javits Center NYC | Booth 104
Featuring work by
Diane Arbus • Matt Black • Jeff Brouws • Edward Burtynsky • Tamas Dezso • Foto Ada • Robert Heinecken • Nadav Kander • Adam Katseff • Andre Kertesz • Josef Koudelka • Man Ray• Irving Penn • Mimi Plumb • Nancy Wilson-Pajic • Michael Wolf
Matt Black’s American Geography exhibition continues Kunstfoyer’s series on documentary photographers, dedicated to life’s sociopolitical and social conditions. With his square, large-format, black-and-white photographs and overwhelming panoramic landscapes, Black shows us a country far from unlimited possibilities and an American society, largely characterized by poverty, lack of opportunities and political resignation.
On view July 15 through September 12 , 2021