The Museum of Modern Art announces New Photography 2025: Lines of Belonging, the 40th anniversary edition of MoMA’s celebrated New Photography series. On view from September 14, 2025, through January 17, 2026, this exhibition will bring together a group of 13 international artists and collectives, from four different cities around the world, who are expanding the horizons of the photographic medium in the 21st century. Each at various stages in their careers, these artists will be presenting these bodies of work for the first time in New York. 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: Lines of Belonging 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.