A retired rabbi turned street photographer stumbled onto a Brooklyn Chabad camp trip on a ferry to Governors Island. What he found
Rob Sutherland is a commercial and landscape photographer who has shot a photo a day for sixteen years. On a family trip
Ty Nelson picked up a camera because he loved wrestling, and started shooting the action the way most beginners do. What he
Kenneth Nelson had one goal on June 26, 2004. Document the Mermaid Parade. Then the music found him first, and it never
Andre Vallgren spent a day photographing a Swedish luthier who has built guitars for Keith Richards and Ryan Adams. What he found
Andrés Gonzalez started asking questions about Portugal's wildfires in 2023 and has not stopped since. He rides hundreds of kilometers on a
Michael Houghton and his wife fell in love with the Isle of Harris on their first visit in 2015 and have returned
Flora van Wageningen took a solo weekend to the mountains during a genuinely low point in her life, expecting nothing more than
Mark Archibald bought six acres of fallow farmland twenty five years ago and spent decades planting trees, scattering acorns on walks, and
The Milky Way never showed. Two nights of clouds over the Vermillion Cliffs erased the whole reason for the trip. A dinner
David Clark has a modest summer home on a small island in Maine, and he has spent years trying not to make
Rakesh Subramanian doesn't remember which book first put the Bolivian salt flats in his head. He just remembers the feeling, and how
Kayleigh Morin started as an artist frustrated that drawing could not capture light the way she wanted. Self portraits led to photographing
Leighton Phillips describes his work as Urban Still Life, drawn to the mundane, the ignored, and the visually familiar rather than anything
Flora van Wageningen picked up a camera in her late thirties, restless and bored with the city she had settled in, and
Damian Ward is drawn to woodland and solitary trees, especially in winter when the branches are bare, in a landscape he describes
Edward Boches was pulled into photography by John Filo's 1970 image of a woman kneeling over Jeffrey Miller at Kent State, the
Andrew Griffiths has been photographing since he was four or five years old, carrying a bakelite Brownie camera through the Pennine hills
In July 2022 Dustin Mullin stopped in Green River Utah to buy groceries. The grocery store was immaculate. Fully stocked. Carefully maintained. In a town where businesses had been closing for decades someone still cared deeply enough to keep the shelves full. That detail stayed with him for four years. When he came back with…
Photographers talk about light constantly. The golden hour. The quality of winter light. Chasing the light. But light is not your subject. It is the language you use to describe your subject. Here is why that distinction matters more than you might think.
Most landscape photographs are beautiful descriptions. They show you what a place looks like. But description is not story. Here is how to find the characters in your landscape, let light define them, and build something the viewer cannot look away from.
Two violinists can play the same instrument on the same night in the same hall and produce completely different things. Two photographers with identical cameras standing in the same place make completely different photographs. The camera is not the variable. You are.
Peggy Becker walked into a salt marsh on Martha’s Vineyard one early morning carrying her camera and a heavy heart. She was thinking about rising seas and a warming world. Then she found a spider’s web in the last of the light and everything shifted.
A massive week. Sony and Canon both announced significant new cameras on May 13. DJI debuted the Osmo Pocket 4P at the Cannes Film Festival. Panasonic surprised everyone with the LUMIX L10. And Sigma confirmed one of the most anticipated lenses in recent memory. Here is everything worth knowing.
Most photographers have thousands of images sitting on hard drives they will never look at again. Here is an exercise that cuts through all of it and shows you something true about your own work that nothing else will.
Darren Pellegrino had been passing Spot Pond on his way to his Boston studio for years, waiting for the right conditions. One foggy January morning with six inches of fresh snow on the ground and his hands freezing he finally pressed the shutter. This is the story behind the shot.
Canon announced the EOS R6 V on May 13 and at first glance it looks like a camera built for videographers. Look closer and there are some genuinely interesting capabilities for black and white still photography hiding beneath that boxy design.
Stephen Uhraney has been photographing real life for over 40 years and he still does not feel like it is work. The Toronto based documentary and street photographer shoots film and digital side by side, embeds with firefighters and police marine units, and carries a Rolleiflex alongside his digital gear. We asked him about the…
