Major Exhibition, Millerton, NY July 4 - August 30, 2025 /  by Ashley Gilbertson

MAD ROSE GALLERY is honored to present the work of distinguished photographers Ashley Gilbertson (Australia) and Franco Pagetti (Italy).

Their photographs trace the subtle topography of human experience— where stillness carries weight and absence speaks. From snow-laden vineyards to fractured interiors, each image is an act of bearing witness: restrained, exacting and quietly profound.

Here, the visible and the invisible are held in tension— not explained, merely observed.

Join us as we celebrate these two photographers and their gifts of extracting from the real.

How to Host a Hamptons Gala for the Super-Rich - NY Times /  by Ashley Gilbertson


Facing federal funding cuts, the Parrish Art Museum is among the institutions increasingly relying on elaborate parties to lure the nation’s elites to pitch in.

“An auctioneer from Sotheby’s goaded diners, whose collective wealth could make a dent in world hunger, to raise paper fans to make donations to the museum’s programs for immigrant youth and people with Alzheimer’s.” wrote Dionne Searcey in the story.

NY Times Magazine - How Eric Adams Lost New York /  by Ashley Gilbertson

I’ve been chasing New York City Mayor Eric Adams around for three weeks, at the same time as staying up all night trying to cover the various issues the city is facing under his leadership for a story in the NY Times Magazine.

“He promised law and order. Instead, his scandal-ridden mayoralty became a symbol — and engine — of the city’s chaos.”

“Mayor Eric Adams was milling around a Manhattan ballroom, tuxedoed and small-talking, on a Thursday night a few weeks before the 2024 election. Donald J. Trump made the first move.” Write Matt Flegenheimer and Dana Rubinstein in the Magazine.

Beautiful spreads, and guidance, from my editor, Amy Kellner.

NY Times Magazine - 30 Hours in a Hurricane, on a Race With No Course /  by Ashley Gilbertson

Why would hundreds of people trek overnight through the wilderness with nothing but a compass? Because it’s the best feeling in the world. - A wild story I worked on with Doug Bock Clark in West Virginia.

“When you’re navigating well, you and the map and the world merge. You become hyperaware of the slope of the ground, the bends in a valley, how many meters and kilometers your footsteps have paced out. It’s an immersion in oneself and nature, the interior and exterior worlds — harking back to when navigation was essential to humanity’s survival as hunter-gatherers. Your mind attunes itself to magnetic north almost as much as your compass does.” Doug writes.

National Gallery of Victoria Exhibition /  by Ashley Gilbertson

The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square

Until Aug 22, 2022

Open 10am–5pm daily

“Looking back over the photographs that he made of New York in 2020 Ashley Gilbertson wrote, ‘The resulting photo essay is my requiem to the New York that we knew before the pandemic, but also a love letter to the resilient people who never gave up.’ One of the leading photojournalists of his generation, Gilbertson has been recognised for his photographs in conflict zones, empathetic pictures of the global refugee crisis and his humanist approach to photography as a documentary medium. Born in Melbourne, Gilbertson has been based in New York City for more than twenty years, but the trajectory of his career has often taken him away from the city. One consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic was the shutting down of much of New York and the suspension of national and international travel, for Gilbertson, this enforced shift in his focus had a profound impact on his life and work.”

Link to a story by Susan Van Wyk, Curator

Mount Sinai Campaign /  by Ashley Gilbertson

“We Find A Way” Developed by SS&K and captured by award-winning photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize-finalist Ashley Gilbertson, the campaign captures distinctive, human moments between the staff and real patients in life-and-death scenarios. Mr. Gilbertson captured Mount Sinai’s response to the pandemic for The New York Times for a piece titled “A City Ruptured” where he embedded on a COVID-19 unit. He jumped at the opportunity to work with Mount Sinai again. The people and stories captured by Mr. Gilbertson are illustrative of an organization that goes far beyond what it means to be a health system and evokes the emotional struggle and triumph of academic medicine.

60 second television advertisment

Street and Billboards

The New York Times - Raft by Raft, a Rainforest Loses Its Trees /  by Ashley Gilbertson

The mighty Congo River has become a highway for sprawling flotillas of logs — African teak, wenge and bomanga in colors of licorice, candy bars and carrot sticks. For months at a time, crews in the Democratic Republic of Congo live aboard these perilous rafts, piloting the timber in pursuit of a sliver of profit from the dismantling of a crucial forest. Dionne Searcey, a climate reporter at The New York Times, and photographer Ashley Gilbertson traveled 500 miles along the Congo River and its tributaries to explore the forces driving deforestation.

A City Ruptured /  by Ashley Gilbertson

Since August, I’ve been working on a major series documenting the changes taking place throughout New York City, as the very texture of the streets frayed. When things were really bad, neighborhoods changed day by day. Today it ran in a special 40 page section in the Sunday paper.

A City Ruptured - The New York Times

We’ve lost tens of thousands of New Yorkers to Covid-19. More than half a million people nationwide. As vaccines were developed and a potential end to the health disaster seemed within grasp, I felt it was critical to focus attention on another element of this crisis: the deep recession we’ve found ourselves in. I needed to photograph our decimated economy in a way that brought the various elements to life — through the people living it. The resulting photo essay is my requiem to the New York that we knew before the pandemic, but also a love letter to the resilient people who never gave up.

For additional background, in a Times Insider piece, click here.