ZUM Magazine's 2025 Retrospective Highlights Photography and Memory

The Brazilian photography magazine ZUM has published a 2025 retrospective featuring notable articles and visual essays from its website. The collection includes a diverse range of photographic works exploring themes of memory, identity, and history. South African artist Lindokuhle Sobekwa discusses his photobook 'I carry Her photo with Me', which addresses the decade-long disappearance of his sister Ziyanda. Japanese photographer Ishiuchi Miyako, in conversation with Brazilian researchers Daniel Salum and Lucas Gibson, reflects on her career focused on memory and the passage of time. An article details the discovery of rare photographs by Leee Black Childers capturing Lou Reed's final performance with The Velvet Underground, found at a market in Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Artist Giselle Beiguelman presents an AI-generated exhibition 'Venenosas, nocivas e suspeitas', recreating portraits of 18th and 19th century women botanists. Photographer Luiza Sigulem's project 'Jeito de Corpo', which won the 2024 Marc Ferrez prize, examines urban accessibility from a wheelchair user's perspective. Italo-Togolese photographer Silvia Rosi's work 'Protetorado' combines self-portraits with historical Togolese archive materials. German critic Jörg Colberg analyzes political and aesthetic parallels between photomontage and AI-generated imagery. The retrospective also covers Rafaela Kennedy's visual essay on the queer socio-environmental festival Rainha das Matas in Marajó, reviews of photobooks by Luana Lorena and Henrique Fujikawa, a report on Wolfgang Tillmans' exhibition at Paris's Centre Pompidou, Lorenzo Beust's photographic documentation of rural life in São Gabriel, and Ronaldo Entler's column on the archaeology of images in rock paintings.