This fall, Mitchell’s exhibition Wish This Was Real arrives in Paris after stops in Berlin, Helsinki, and Lausanne, Switzerland. The show celebrates the Cameroonian-Nigerian photographer’s self-portraiture, which calls upon and reinvents traditions of studio photography from West Africa and the African diaspora. Man Ray: When Objects Dream at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 14 through February 1, 2026. “Photography was central to Shahn’s vision and his working process.”Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity at The Jewish Museum, New York, through October 26, 2025. Hans Blaser, Portrait of Germaine Krull, Berlin, 1922© Germaine Krull Estate, Museum Folkwang, EssenGermaine Krull – GermanyGermaine Krull, the legendary modernist photographer, had many nicknames.