New

Photography

2025:

‘Line

of

Belonging’

at

MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art presents ‘New Photography 2025: Lines of Belonging’, the 40th anniversary edition of MoMA’s celebrated New Photography series. Presenting their work at MoMA for the first time, the exhibition includes four Johannesburg artists: Gabrielle Goliath, Lebohang Kganye, Sabelo Mlangeni, and Lindokuhle Sobekwa.

The show brings together a group of 13 international artists and collectives, from four different cities around the world, who are expanding the horizons of the photographic field in the 21st century. Each at various stages in their careers, these artists are presenting distinct bodies of work. Their creative contributions interweave personal narratives with structural, environmental, and colonial histories to consider forms of belonging that shape communities.

Since it was launched in 1985, New Photography has introduced MoMA audiences to the innovative practices of more than 150 international artists. The featured practitioners in ‘New Photography 2025′ work in and out of one of four cities that have existed as centers of life, creativity, and communion for longer than the nation states within which they are presently situated: Johannesburg, Kathmandu, New Orleans, and Mexico City.