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Photo Director, Artist, Curator Formerly of NYTMAG Author of 'Office Romance' and ‘The New York Times Magazine Photographs’ pub by Aperture
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The Jury of Brave New Visions: Creativity as Rebellion
Who gets to shape the images we see? Who challenges the way we look at the world? And who dares to imagine it differently?
For this year’s Global Open Call, we’ve brought together an extraordinary jury from across fashion, photography, art, and visual culture. Voices that challenge conventions, question established narratives, and open up new ways of seeing.
Today, we’re introducing Kathy Ryan (@kathyryan).
For nearly four decades, Kathy Ryan shaped the visual language of The New York Times Magazine, bringing fine art photography into dialogue with photojournalism and championing new talent alongside some of the most influential photographers of our time. Since leaving the magazine, she has continued to explore the possibilities of image-making through her own photographic practice, curatorial work, and teaching.
Kathy Ryan has been a key figure in shaping the conversation around photography and its place in contemporary culture, with a lasting contribution to the way photographic images are considered within art and visual storytelling. We’re honoured to have her join the jury of Brave New Visions: Creativity as Rebellion.
Stay with us as we introduce the voices helping to shape this year’s selection.
Credits:
Photo by Inez & Vinoodh
20 Oct 2026
Women Street Photographers is honored to welcome Kathy Ryan, Former Director of Photography, The New York Times Magazine @kathyryan, as a guest judge for our New York Annual Exhibition Open Call.
Over 39 years at the Times, she shaped the Magazine’s visual voice, blending fine art with photojournalism and championing new talent. Author of Office Romance (Aperture). Now an artist, curator, speaker and educator.
Open to women and non-binary photographers from anywhere in the world, all ages, using any cameras and phones. Blind review: judges will not see names or personal details.
AWARDS:
– Annual Exhibition of 70 Women Street Photographers in New York City, April 9–19, 2027
– Publication on @womenstreetphotographers
– Dedicated page on www.womenstreetphotographers.com
– FOUR (4) US$1000 grants by LEICA CAMERA USA @leicacamerausa
– International exposure to industry professionals
Curated by Gulnara Lyabib Samoilova, WSP Founder/Curator @gulnara.samoilova
Submit via the link in bio or at www.womenstreetphotographers.com
DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 16th, 2026.
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Photo credit: Inez & Vinoodh
15 Oct 2026
This story about halation is a glimpse into the much larger world behind the camera.
We have the privilege of working with engineers, scientists, artists, creators, designers, and image quality guardians who care deeply about making tools for people who love photography.
That means studying the history of photographic materials, the strange behaviors of light and perception, and the qualities of cameras people have loved — or loved to hate — for generations.
So when visionary director @alexprager said on set, “The neon doesn’t look right,” we recognized it immediately. Of course. We had been thinking about that too. Immediate mind meld!
Halation is one small detail. Behind it are huge teams noticing, testing, and caring about things most people will never know because it just works now. I’m so grateful to be part of it. Congratulations on What Holds Us curated by @kathyryan with our fearless leader @scottseviour and biggest thank you @alexprager for pushing us even farther with your art and mind’s eye. You are a true inspiration!✨🩵
04 Oct 2026
A great time talking with @jimmychin last night @strandbookstore about his wonderful new book ‘Rules To Live By’
📸@scottthode
03 Oct 2026
Photographers often shoot for a year or more to build a show. Jimmy Chin (@jimmychin) had 36 hours.
The photographer and filmmaker flew into the Bugaboos in British Columbia with Conrad Anker, his climbing partner of 25 years, and shot everything on an iPhone 18 Pro. Kathy Ryan (@kathyryan) and Pamela Chen (@chenpamela) of Apple (@apple) set the brief together, and Kathy edited the pictures into “What Holds Us,” which opened in New York on September 18. “I like that sort of pressure. It makes me very decisive,” Jimmy says.
Full story at the link in bio.
Words by @chrissforce.
24 Sep 2026
***KATHY RYAN APPRECIATION POST*** Kathy Ryan, my enduring inspiration, is the visionary curator of What Holds Us — an ambitious photography exhibition by @alexprager @jackdavisonphoto @jimmychin. She brings together these three iconic artists from their far-flung worlds, and created space for each to go further and become even more fully themselves.
Dear Kathy, it has been one of the great honors of my life to support your vision as aesthetics scientist — to learn from the way you see, and to mind meld so deeply with you and the artists through the work we made together.
Thank you @kathyryan for helping us see what could be.
22 Sep 2026
What Holds Us.
It’s been a while since I got to just make photographs. Thank you @kathyryan and @chenpamela for the idea and the freedom to run with it. What ensued was a wild 36-hour strike mission into the mountains to photograph the show.
Over my life I have returned to the mountains again and again. It’s there where I’ve learned to focus on the fundamentals. I come here to think about what matters, what holds us. In these raw, wild places there is no place to hide from yourself. I have experienced awe, loss, sorrow and peace, and joy I can’t explain. The mountains do not judge. They remain the great neutral teacher.
Four of these photographs feature @conrad_anker, someone who has committed a lifetime to a craft, in a place that was here long before him and will remain long after. The rest honor the place that nurtures us. The chaotic symmetry in rock and ice. Light moving across a glacier. Small things, easy to miss.
Honored to share the space, and some time, with two incredible artists, @alexprager and @jackdavisonphoto.
Grateful to Tim Cook, John Ternus, and the whole team at @apple: @tverrecchia @scottseviour and @musingmutley. To @erichroepke and @mikeylikesrocks on the ground, and to everyone who came out.
Shot on iPhone in Bugaboo Provincial Park, British Columbia.
#ShotoniPhone
21 Sep 2026
Curator Kathy Ryan shares how Alex Prager, Jack Davison and Jimmy Chin brought their artistic visions to life with iPhone 18 Pro for “What Holds Us.”
20 Sep 2026
“What Holds Us” is a new exhibition from @Apple opening to the public today through Sunday, September 20, featuring the work @AlexPrager, @JimmyChin and @JackDavisonPhoto.
@NYTMag alum @kathyryan enlisted three photographers to utilize iPhone 18 Pro and take to the mountains, LA soundstages, and clay-filled studios.
Featured in @wmag @galeriemagazine @cultured_mag @family_style @designscene @highsnobiety.
456 W 18th St, New York, NY 10011
Saturday, September 19 - 10am-6pm
Sunday, September 20 - 10am-6pm
19 Sep 2026
Alex Prager uses iPhone 18 Pro to depict the varied emotional expression of human connection by filling the frame with life.
See the work as part of our global photography exhibition “What Holds Us,” exploring the search for human connection within a heavily distracted contemporary world. Through moments of touch, gaze, care, ritual, solitude, and shared experience, the artists explore presence and the ways we relate, belong, and find meaning. In New York City September 18-20.
#ShotoniPhone by @alexprager
Commissioned by Apple
16 Sep 2026
Jack Davison uses iPhone 18 Pro to unlock a more intimate and honest connection with his subject, in search of something more human.
See the work as part of our global photography exhibition “What Holds Us,” exploring the search for human connection within a heavily distracted contemporary world. Through moments of touch, gaze, care, ritual, solitude, and shared experience, the artists explore presence and the ways we relate, belong, and find meaning. In New York City September 18-20.
#ShotoniPhone by @jackdavisonphoto
Commissioned by Apple
16 Sep 2026
Jimmy Chin takes iPhone 18 Pro to new heights to depict the spiritual connection between climber and pure verticality.
See the work as part of our global photography exhibition “What Holds Us,” exploring the search for human connection within a heavily distracted contemporary world. Through moments of touch, gaze, care, ritual, solitude, and shared experience, the artists explore presence and the ways we relate, belong, and find meaning. In New York City September 18-20.
#ShotoniPhone by @jimmychin
Commissioned by Apple
16 Sep 2026
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