Each week, ArtsATL delivers a critic’s short list of the shows, exhibitions, concerts and events we recommend for the coming weeks within one area in the kaleidoscope of Atlanta arts and culture. This week, we offer a look at photography exhibitions happening this spring and summer in and around Atlanta.

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Through May 17

Atlanta Photography Group’s Portfolio 2025 exhibition spotlights eight artists chosen to represent the best of contemporary photography by juror and Aperture Editor Jane’a Johnson. Also on view through May 17 is The Great Moon Hoax: Science and the Recreation of the Artificial by Casey McGuire and Mark Schoon.

Through May 25

Christian Walker: The Profane and the Poignant surveys the work of artist, critic and curator Walker (1953–2003), who worked primarily in Atlanta and Boston. His work explored queer sexuality, race and their intersections from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. In the mid-1980s, his artistic practice shifted from documentary photography and portraiture to alternative photographic processes involving multiple exposures, archival appropriation and the integration of paint and nontraditional materials.

Through May 28

Cig Harvey: Emerald Drifters and Julie Blackmon: Moonball offer distinct yet complementary approaches that draw inspiration from personal experiences, exploring themes of female identity, familial relationships, memory and connection to home. This is the second solo exhibition at Jackson Fine Art for each artist.

Through June 1

Waffle House Vistas, on view at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, emerged from Micah Cash’s photography series and photo book of the same name. It examines built and natural environments as seen through the windows of Waffle House restaurants, captured from locations across the Southeastern United States. Read more about Waffle House Vistas.

Through July 13

The Booth Museum began collecting photographs in the early 2000s. The permanent collection was formally established in 2017, and now the museum has more than 900 photographs, dating from the 19th century to the present. Western Focus: Collecting Photography 2017-2025 is a retrospective surveying the Booth’s photography collecting activity and includes historical and contemporary imagery by more than 40 photographers.

Through August

JerusaLENS: The World Photographs Jerusalem at the Breman Museum captures the essence and beauty of Jerusalem — a city of profound historical, religious and cultural significance — through photographers’ lenses worldwide. Also on view at the Breman through mid-October is Hidden History: Recounting the Shanghai Jewish Story tells the little-known history of the diverse, resettled Jewish community in Shanghai. A key component of the exhibit is the photographs of prominent American photojournalist Arthur Rothstein, who documented the plight of Jewish refugees who were forced to live in the Hongkew Ghetto after the Japanese captured Shanghai.

Through Sept. 7

Campbell Addy is a British Ghanaian artist whose striking photographs have garnered acclaim for their reconsiderations of beauty ideals. The artist creates conceptual images that offer expansive aesthetic possibilities for engaging with Blackness, identity and representation. The Stillness of Elegance, on view at SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film through September 7, marks the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition in the U.S.

Through September

Korean War – A Soldier’s View: Photography by Harold Feinstein is on view at the National Infantry Museum at Fort Moore in Columbus (1775 Legacy Way, #235). The work of Feinstein, who was sent to Korea in 1952 to fight as an infantryman on the front lines, offers a view of the day-to-day lives of GIs and civilians alike.

May 10

For the second year, Atlanta Center for Photography hosts its annual Block Party + Open Exhibition from noon to 5 p.m. May 10. The event is hosted by the Atlanta Center for Photography in collaboration with local businesses and arts organizations and celebrates the center’s rich community.

May 17

Learn about on-location photography at Atlanta Photowalk 2025 with portrait photographer and YouTuber Brandon Cole. Get location tips and tricks from Cole, who will be bringing along several models. Tickets for the event are $199.

May 20-June 21

Up next from Atlanta Photography Group are Photo as Object and iVisual 2025: Mobile Phone Photographic Art. Both shows will be on view May 20 through June 21, with an opening reception from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. May 22.

June 13-January 4

Photography’s New Vision: Experiments in Seeing unites more than 100 works from the High’s robust photography collection, tracing the impact of the New Vision movement from its origins in the 1920s to today. Named by the influential German artist and teacher László Moholy-Nagy, the “New Vision” comprised an expansive variety of photographic exploration that took place in Europe, America and beyond in the 1920s and 1930s. The movement was characterized by its departure from traditional photographic methods.