Image by: LOAY AYYOUB
Outside the morgue Nasser Medical Complex, a mother holds her child after the Ma’an UNRWA School was target, east of Kahn Younis. Wrapped in a white shroud, the crowd stands still, as if time has stopped at this moment of irrevocable loss. December 5, 2023
EXHIBITION IN OSTUNI, ITALY
Exhibition Dates: June 18th – July 26th, 2026
Venue: Ostuni Foto Festival (located in the Via Maresca Art Studio)
Address: Via Maresca Gennaro 48, 72017 Ostuni BR, Italy
EXHIBITION LOS ANGELES, USA
Exhibition Dates: August 27th – November 6th, 2026
Opening Reception: August 29th, 2026 | 5 – 8 PM
Venue: House of Lucie, Los Angeles
Address: 1933 South Broadway, Suite 424, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Resistance brings together images from four separate but thematically intertwined urgent issues: the American experience with ICE and migration enforcement, the Iranian uprising, the war in Ukraine, and the ongoing Palestinian struggle for freedom and self-determination. Through photography and visual storytelling, the exhibition examines acts of defiance, survival, and resilience in the face of overwhelmingly oppressive realities. The works presented here reflect the enduring human spirit and the ways individuals and communities continue to resist systems of control while fighting to preserve their dignity and hope.
Featured photographers include Lynsey Addario, Samar Abu Elouf, Saher Alghorra, Mohammed Al Masri, Omar Ashtawy, Loay Ayyoub, Farhad Babaei, Victor Blue, Fabio Bucciarelli, Carol Guzy, Maya Hed, Belal Khaled, Arash Khamooshi, Jakub Laichter, Evgeniy Maloletka, Yalda Moaiery, Suhail Nassar, Haitham Imad, Oksana Parafeniuk, Paul Ratje, Mohsen Rezaei, Mohammed Salem, Alireza Sotakbar, and Ahmed Zakot.
A note from the curator Sarah Leen:
“Photography is resistance.
To stand in front of destruction, death, sorrow and loss and make photographs is to resist. It is to say, ‘No, this will not be ignored, this will not be forgotten.’ The photographers who have made these photographs often do so in conditions that may put their lives in extreme danger. They are our eyes; they are the witnesses for all of us.”
Resistance will be coming to House of Lucie Los Angeles with an opening reception on August 29th, 2026.
Gallery open by appointment only. Please email info@luciefoundation.org to schedule a visit.
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Opening Reception: June 11th, 2026 7:00 – 9:30 PM
Exhibition Dates: June 11th – July 11th, 2026
Venue: House of Lucie Athens
Address: 4 Charalampi Sotiriou str, 11472 Athens, Greece
House of Lucie Athens proudly presents Jamel’s Shabazz, City Metro: Photos from 1980 – 2020.
Jamel Shabazz has been photographing his native New York City since the 1970s.
Famous for documenting the style, joy, and everyday living across communities, Shabazz has always focused on the human connection that photography can bring. Featuring both iconic and previously unseen photographs, City Metro showcases this vibrant display of life found on the city streets and hidden in the underground world of the subway. Spanning a 40-year period, these photographs are a testament to the enduring power and resilience of New York City’s people and culture.
The exhibition is part of the Athens Photo Festival Satellite Program.
City Metro: Photos from 1980 – 2020 will then be traveling to House of Lucie Los Angeles
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Opening Reception: June 13th 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Exhibition Dates: June 13th – August 14th, 2026
Venue: House of Lucie, Los Angeles
Address: 1933 South Broadway, Suite 424, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Lucie Foundation invites you to join us “on the block”, where stories unfold in the open and every corner hides unexpected beauty. ‘On the Block’ celebrates the unposed, unfiltered, and fleeting moments that define the art of documenting everyday life, whether in dense urban streets or sleepy rural towns. From street photography to urban landscape, this competition seeks images that reveal the quiet truths and vivid stories concealed beneath everyday moments. This exhibition will feature both the winners and finalists of the ‘On the Block’ competition.
Gallery open by appointment only. Please email info@luciefoundation.org to schedule a visit.
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Opening Reception: April 23rd 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Exhibition Dates: April 23rd – May 31st, 2026
Venue: House of Lucie, Los Angeles
Address: 1933 South Broadway, Suite 424, Los Angeles, CA 90007
The Best of Show exhibition presents category winners from the International Photography Awards 2025, alongside a curated selection of Best of Show images, selected by Eleni Mouzakiti, curator of House of Lucie Athens and Artistic Director of Photopolis Festival. As described by the curator, Best of Show explores complex narratives of the human condition, focusing on images that address tension, conflict, psychological states, and challenging environmental realities. Together, the selected works reflect a wide range of contemporary experiences and visual approaches. The exhibition includes the IPA 2025 category winners, chosen by an international panel of professional, amateur, and student photographers.
The IPA Best of Show exhibition will travel internationally throughout the year, with presentations at House of Lucie galleries and partner venues in Los Angeles, Budapest, Ostuni, Koh Samui, and other locations worldwide.
Gallery open by appointment only. Please email info@luciefoundation.org to schedule a visit.
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Opening Reception: February 28th, 2026, from 3-5 pm
Exhibition Dates: February 26th – April 17th, 2026
Venue: House of Lucie, Los Angeles
Address: 1933 South Broadway, Suite 424, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Graciela Iturbide
2010 Lucie Honoree for Achievement in Fine Art
Jo Ann Callis
2023 Lucie Honoree for Achievement in Fine Art
Gallery open by appointment only. Please email info@luciefoundation.org to schedule a visit.
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Opening Reception: March 21st from 5-7 pm
Exhibition Dates: March 21 to May 24, 2026
Venue: House of Lucie, Samui
Address: 2/23 ProoNaMueang Road, Moo 2, Maret Sub District,
Ko Samui District, Surat Thani 84310
Awarded the 2025 Lucie Awards Achievement in Portraiture, Martin Schoeller is one of the world’s preeminent contemporary photographers. In this deep dive into Schoeller’s extreme close-ups, the viewer’s existing notions of celebrity, value and honesty are challenged. Familiar faces are treated with the same scrutiny as the un-famous. Schoeller’s portraits emphasize, in equal measure, facial features, of his subjects — world leaders and indigenous groups, movie stars and the homeless, athletes and artists — leveling them in an inherently democratic fashion.
A special thank you to Hahnemühle for their generous support that made this exhibition possible.
EXHIBITION AT HOUSE OF LUCIE BUDAPEST
Venue: House of Lucie Gallery
Address: House of Lucie Gallery H-1055 Budapest, Falk Miksa u. 30., Hungary
Exhibition Dates: January 29 – February 26, 2026
EXHIBITION AT LAS FOTOS PROJECT IN OSTUNI
Venue: House of Lucie Gallery
Address: 164 Corso Garibaldi 72017 Ostuni, Italy
Exhibition Dates: June 18 – June 21, 2026
The Lucie Foundation is proud to be in partnership with Las Fotos Project to present The Power of Self-Portraiture. This inaugural exhibition is a youth-focused open call for teenage girls and gender-expansive youth. Following this group exhibition at Las Fotos Project in Los Angeles, the exhibition will then travel to the House of Lucie galleries worldwide including Athens, Budapest, Ostuni, and Samui.
House of Lucie Samui 11/8/25 – 12/21/25
House of Lucie Athens 11/27/25 – 12/27/25
House of Lucie Budapest 1/29/26 – 2/26/26
House of Lucie Ostuni 6/18/26 – 6/21/26
The Lucie Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, charitable foundation whose mission is to honor master photographers, discover and cultivate emerging talent and promote the appreciation of photography worldwide.
Las Fotos Project’s mission is to elevate the voices of young women and gender-expansive individuals from communities of color through photography and mentorship, empowering them to channel their creativity for the benefit of themselves, their community, and future careers.
The Lucie Foundation would like to thank all those who helped make this exhibition possible including Las Fotos Projects for being the first partner on this new activation, Epilogue Inc (@epilogueinc) for printing these artworks, and our exhibition jurors—Arlene Mejorado, Danielle Del Rosario, and Laura Roumanos.
EXHIBITION DETAILS
Venue: Gallery 424
Address: 1933 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90007
Opening Night: Saturday, November 22, 2025 | 5 – 8 PM
The Lucie Foundation is proud to present to you the winners and finalists of the Lucie Scholarship and Lucie Photo Book Prize. These two annual programs are juried competitions open to photographers internationally and judged by the top curators, editors, and photography experts in the field. Not only do these programs help to support the Lucie Foundation and the non-profit work that it does, but it helps to support the professional and emerging artists in need of funding and exposure.
The Lucie Photo Book Prize is open to a diversity of photography books created in the last two years – from published to prototype to hand-made books. The Traditional Prize will be awarded to a photographer, editor, curator or publisher whose book is commercially produced and distributed. The Independent Prize will be awarded to a photographer, editor, curator or publisher whose book is published and distributed independently. The top two finalists will receive a cash prize for their outstanding work – Zed Nelson for the Traditional $3,000 cash prize and Raymond Thompson Jr for the Independent $2,000 cash prize.
The Lucie Scholarship Program seeks professional and emerging talent with vision and dynamic ideas that challenge and progress the art form of still photography into work that compels. From Fine Art to Documentary and Photojournalism, to digital and film-based works, the focus is to support photographers producing work that is both gripping and original. The Lucie Foundation is proud to offer four cash grants and a variety of prizes to the winners of each sub category: Cristina Velásquez for Fine Art Professional, Jatin Gulati for Fine Art Emerging, Svet Jacqueline for Photojournalism/Documentary Professional, and Lisandra Álvarez for Photojournalism/Documentary emerging.
The Lucie Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit charitable organization whose three-tiered mission is to honor master photographers, discover and cultivate emerging talent, and promote the appreciation of photography worldwide. Lucie Foundation presents a variety of programs throughout the year, including its signature program, The Lucie Awards. We wanted to thank the sponsors that have made these programs and this exhibition possible including Sony, the REEF and Picto NYC.
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EXHIBITION DETAILS
Venue: St. James Chapel at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Address: 1047 Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street, New York, NY 10025
Opening Night: Thursday, January 22, 2026, 6.00 – 8.00 PM
Exhibition Dates: January 22 – February 12, 2026
Eyes in Gaza II is a collection of first hand accounts on the ground in the Gaza Strip: a place millions call home that may soon cease to exist.
Since 2018, the Lucie Impact Award has been presented to a photographer who created the most substantial journalistic contributions that year. In 2023, the Impact Award was given not to an individual, but a group of photojournalists and press photographers working in the Gaza Strip. Eyes in Gaza features firsthand accounts from some of these photographers: Dawoud AboAlkas, Samar Abu Elouf, AbdelHakim Abu Riash, Mohammed Al Masri, Saher Alghorra, Loay Ayyoub, Motaz Azaiza, Mohammed Baba, Mahmoud Bassam, Mohammed Dahman, Majdi Fathi, Mahmud Hams, Ahmad Hasaballah, Belal Khaled, Mohammed Jadallah Salem, Suhail Nassar, Haitham Nuralden, Yasser Qudih, Mohammed Talatene, Bashar Taleb, Mohammed Zaanoun, Ahmed Zakot, and Abed Zagout. By putting their life on the line, these individuals were able to bring never before seen imagery of a quickly progressing conflict in real time to thousands worldwide.
Years later and the situation remains similarly bleak. The motivation behind Eyes in Gaza II remains consistent: to amplify the voices of those experiencing the realities of the genocide firsthand. Due to the nature of the conflict, numerous photojournalists have been forced to take refuge and have ceased their work covering the genocide. The photography in this exhibition consists of a mixture of older images and a selection of recent images from those who are still actively documenting life in the Gaza Strip. Each photograph is a segment of the overall story, told through the lens of those affected every day by the countless tragedies.
Thank you to The Very Rev. Winnie Varghese, Dean, Marion Kahan, Collection & Exhibition Manager, Laura F. Bosley, Executive Director, Cathedral Programming and everyone at St. John the Divine for opening its doors for this urgent and topical body of work. Thank you to Keith Manning, Rev. Elizabeth G. Maxwell, and Rabbi Ellen Lippmann for your support in bringing this exhibition to New York.
In honor of Omar Al-Derawi, 2023 Lucie Impact Award Honoree, who was killed January 3rd, 2025 by an Israeli airstrike.
This exhibition is made possible by the Lucie Foundation and curated by Alice Dison.
Lucie Foundation’s mission is to honor master photographers, recognize current photographers, discover and cultivate emerging talent, and promote the appreciation of photography worldwide. The foundation presents year-round programming to support emerging photographers through the Lucie Scholarship Program and master photographers through The Lucie Awards. Other programs include new programming supporting and engaging photojournalists worldwide, The Lucie Photo Book Prize, exhibitions, talks, and workshops at the House of Lucie Galleries. The Lucie Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable foundation.