ZUM Roundup: Mari Katayama Wins Mori Art Award, New Lisette Model and Laffont Books Reviewed

Japanese photographer Mari Katayama, winner of the current Mori Art Award, discusses work in which she surrounds herself with handmade sculptures, fabrics and mirrors in an interview with The Japan Times. She resists the self-portrait label, describing her focus on the relationship between 'you' and 'I' — with objects, her own body, society and institutions — and a need to examine the structural stage on which those relations are staged. A London Review of Books essay by Adam Shatz examines Lisette Model's lesser-known jazz photography, tied to the release of Lisette Model: The Jazz Pictures, which may prompt reassessment of the Austrian-American street photographer who influenced Diane Arbus, Peter Hujar and Larry Fink. Rabbit's Foot's Substack runs a piece on Gilbert & George ahead of a show at their Spitalfields centre near Fournier Street and Brick Lane, a former brewery across three floors; the current exhibition, Our George Crompton, Worlds and Windows, honours a friend who died last year. Aperture reviews Carrie Mae Weems: The Heart of the Matter at C/O Berlin, the first show to place Weems at its centre as muse, model and moral compass, arranged non-chronologically. Literary Hub covers Rebels with a Cause by Jean-Pierre and Eliane Laffont, on 1960s–70s America. Apollo profiles Italian sisters Wanda and Marion Wulz, who inherited their father Carlo's photography studio in 1928 in Trieste.