Category: Behind The Shot
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Behind The shot With Michael Houghton
Michael Houghton and his wife fell in love with the Isle of Harris on their first visit in 2015 and have returned most years since. A midwinter fortnight with only a couple of hours of rain, practically unheard of that far north in January, gave him a cold bright morning at low tide, marram grass…
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Behind The shot With Flora van Wageningen
Flora van Wageningen took a solo weekend to the mountains during a genuinely low point in her life, expecting nothing more than dull, dreary weather. Walking the shoreline of Lake Minnewanka in falling snow, she found a diving platform still anchored out in the lake, alone in a sea of white. It mirrored exactly how…
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Behind The shot With Mark Archibald
Mark Archibald bought six acres of fallow farmland twenty five years ago and spent decades planting trees, scattering acorns on walks, and letting the land slowly return to woods. Now deer come close enough to photograph from his own sunroom, camo netting hung over open sliding doors, waiting for a fawn to wander through the…
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Behind The shot With Rakesh Subramanian
The Milky Way never showed. Two nights of clouds over the Vermillion Cliffs erased the whole reason for the trip. A dinner table tip about a quieter canyon and one last morning before flying home turned the loss into the shot that actually mattered.
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Behind The shot With David Clark
David Clark has a modest summer home on a small island in Maine, and he has spent years trying not to make the average tourist photo there. When fog rolled in over the water one day, his first instinct, a diffuse sun shot, didn’t jazz him at all. It was the frame he almost dismissed,…
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Behind The shot With Rakesh Subramanian
Rakesh Subramanian doesn’t remember which book first put the Bolivian salt flats in his head. He just remembers the feeling, and how many years he carried it before his wife’s fortieth birthday finally made the trip real. He injured his back crossing the border, felt the altitude at nearly sixteen thousand feet, and walked out…
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Behind The shot With Alexander Grubl
Alexander Grubl and a friend showed up to the US Capitol with no ticket, no plan, and one honest answer to a Capitol Police officer. We’re from Austria, we don’t have a congressman. That answer got them a Special Visitor Pass, a walk through the Rotunda, and eventually a wrong turn straight into the office…
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Behind The shot With Lindsay Brice
Lindsay Brice timed her visit for 8am specifically so no one would be loitering under the sign that told them not to. Then two men on the corner told her the liquor store wasn’t a liquor store at all, it was a club, and led her through an upholstered door into a room where the…
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Behind The shot With Colin Cunningham
Two unrelated photo challenges and a joke about Lord Cardigan brought John in front of the camera for one of the only portraits ever made of him. Four frames at a dining table in natural light. Weeks later he was gone, and the photograph became something neither of them could have known it would be.
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Behind The shot With Glen Fisher
Glen Fisher went to Assynt in the far north-west of Scotland for a photography workshop with one goal. To come away with three photographs just a level or two higher than anything he had made before. On a grey morning with no sun and clouds hanging low over the hills he stood in the cold…