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Here are 5 things I was looking at and loving this week:
Everyone in my world is Remembering Martin Parr. Love his work or hate it, there’s no arguing that he was a legend. Ben Smith over at A Small Voice did a nice, well-curated round-up of tributes and reposted his two interviews with Parr. I also downloaded and loved reading Parr’s 10 Rules for Emerging Photographers.
Julia Louis Dreyfus talks to Annie Leibovitz on the Wiser Than Me podcast about her career, aging, ambition, motherhood, and truly being seen.
It’s getting to be that time of year: Lensculture just posted Favorite Photobooks 2025 — The Big List, the Smithsonian Magazine has a top 10 list, and I appreciate the picks on Our Favorite Photobooks of 2025. Also cool to see some friends and former APADers (Ian Bates! David Walter Banks!) photo books getting shout-outs.
Speaking of books, the NYT Book Review just released its Top 10 Books of 2025. I also enjoyed the video of three Book Review editors sharing their top choices. Sadly, neither of the two best books I read1 this year made their list, but on the plus side, I now have 10 new books to check out.
I finally watched The Stringer. My feelings on it are very similar to Dina Litovsky’s, who wrote, “I sympathize with Nick Ut for having his authorship denied in such a public manner, and I sympathize with Nguyễn Thành Nghệ for possibly having his credit erased from the start.” It’s tragic either way, and we still don’t know who actually took the photo.
Charlotte McConaghy’s Wild Dark Shore and Ocean Vuong’s The Emperor of Gladness