AP 42: American Photography Annual 2026

Excited to announce two 2025 commissions have been named the year’s best by American Photography.

Best Little Golf Towns:

Cattle outnumber people 11-to-1 in Sioux County, Iowa, but that’s not a knock on the golf culture. Sioux Center—a town of 8,500 humans near the border of South Dakota, Nebraska and Minnesota—has one of the largest junior golf programs in the country.

Twenty years ago, the golf scene was more like what you’d expect given the population and remote location in the American farmland.” Sioux City serve as models for others. Because golf is best when it embraces its egalitarian side

The System Is Meant to Break You’: What ICE Is Doing to People Here Legally:

The videos circulating on social media are brutal and terrifying — the often violent arrests, people pulled screaming from their cars, out of day care centers, away from their children and their spouses. What should give Americans equal pause is the inhumanity happening beyond the cameras, away from the view of judges and lawyers and the media. Due process is not a constitutional right afforded only to citizens; legal restrictions on unlawful detention apply to all people on U.S. soil.

The stories we were told call into question both the constitutionality and the morality of how the Trump administration is directing immigration policy. That immorality, once unleashed, may ultimately be aimed at others in this country, regardless of immigration status. If a woman returning from vacation with her young children can be suddenly removed from her family and her life, how can we believe that any of us will remain safe?