Khadija with her 12 hours old baby. She was denied paid maternity leave by her employers. (Photo: Gazi Nafis Ahmed—VII Mentor Program)

Work by Gazi Nafis Ahmed, a member of the VII Mentor Program, will be exhibited during the 6th edition of the Format International Photography Festival 2013 in Derby, United Kingdom, March 8 - 26, 2013.

For more information, visit FORMATfestival.com.

Nelson Mandela wearing traditional beads and a bed spread. Hiding out from the police during his period as the “black pimpernel,” 1961. (Photo: Eli Weinberg, Courtesy of IDAFSA. )

Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life

will be on view at the International Center of Photography in New York from  September 14, 2012–January 6, 2013

Lake Casitas, CA 8, 2009. Chromogenic print soaked in Lake Casitas water.

Matthew Brandt, whose work is featured in a show at Yossi Milo Gallery in New York City, makes photographs that are ‘of’ his subjects in two senses of the word. See more here.

Paolo Roversi

Guinevere behind the table, Paris, 2004

Few publishers in the history of photography have had as lengthy a track record of producing books that are now considered the medium’s landmarks as Robert Delpire, who is honored in a tribute exhibition in New York City. See more here.

A Man on the Corner of Lenox Ave. & 125th St., Harlem, NY, c. 1976

Present-day Chicago is not Harlem in 1979. Present-day Harlem isn’t even Harlem in 1979. But at the Art Institute of Chicago’s new exhibition Dawoud Bey: Harlem USA, some things have stayed the same. See more here.

Powerhouse Gym, 2008 40x50” Pigmented Ink Print

Brian Ulrich’s solo show Is This Place Great or What — a show that focuses on the last decade and American retail experiences, and that coincides with a monograph from Aperture Foundation — opens at Julie Saul Gallery in New York City today and runs through May 5. More information here.

Liu Bolin, courtesy of the artist and Eli Klein Fine Art

Hiding in the City No. 94—In the Woods, 2010

Liu Bolin employs photography as a means to explore the Chinese national identity while silently protesting its government. His work is on view at Eli Klein Fine Art gallery in New York City. See more here.

Eadweard Muybridge

Animal Locomotion, plate 640, 1887

Can you really mount a worthwhile retrospective of sports photography without some of the most iconic athletes and moments? Turns out you can. In fact, “The Sports Show,” a photography and new-media exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, is better off for it. See more here.

Interstate 25, Eden, Colorado, 1968, printed 2006

A new retrospective of the work of Robert Adams—the photographer famous for documenting the people and environment of the American West—will make its own westward journey when it comes to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on March 11. See more here.

El Lissitzky / MFAH, museum purchase with funds provided by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Dziga Vertov-Kino Auge, 1929

A new exhibition explores the artistic technique of collage, which allows artists to reconfigure, cut and fragment photos to create entirely new images and conversations. See more here.