Posts by Jessica Stewart

Jessica Stewart

Jessica Stewart is a Staff Editor and Digital Media Specialist for My Modern Met, as well as a curator and art historian. Since 2020, she is also one of the co-hosts of the My Modern Met Top Artist Podcast. She earned her MA in Renaissance Studies from University College London and now lives in Rome, Italy. She cultivated expertise in street art which led to the purchase of her photographic archive by the Treccani Italian Encyclopedia in 2014. When she’s not spending time with her three dogs, she also manages the studio of a successful street artist. In 2013, she authored the book "Street Art Stories Roma" and most recently contributed to "Crossroads: A Glimpse Into the Life of Alice Pasquini." You can follow her adventures online at @romephotoblog.
Photo Contest
October 30, 2025

A Rare Circular Rainbow Wins the 2025 Weather Photographer of the Year Contest

A perfectly circular rainbow has come away with the big prize at the Royal Meteorological Society’s Standard Chartered Weather Photographer of the Year Competition. Geshuang Chen and Shuchang Dong took the unique photo that earned them the overall win in this 10th anniversary edition of the contest. Engineer and astronomy photographer Geshuang Chen flew his drone above a lake for the spectacular capture, which shows a rare full-circle rainbow.

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Astrophotography
October 28, 2025

Rare Red Sprites, Milky Way, and Southern Liguts All Captured in One Spectacular Photo

We’ve seen some fantastic photos of red sprites, but photographer Dan Zafra has given us something we’ve never seen before—red sprites, the Milky Way, the Aurora Australis, and a comet all in the same image. Zafra, who runs the photography and travel blog Capture the Atlas, came upon the incredible moment while traveling in New Zealand.

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Architecture
October 25, 2025

Tokyo Exhibition Celebrates the “Primitive Future” Architecture of Sou Fujimoto

The incredible architecture of Sou Fujimoto is being celebrated with an exhibition at Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum. Sou Fujimoto: Primordial Future Forest is the Japanese architect’s first major exhibition. Split into eight sections, the survey is an innovative architecture exhibition that not only includes the usual scale models, plans, and photographs, but also includes large-scale replicas to transport visitors inside Fujimoto’s creative concepts.

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