A Photo Story: The First City in the Americas
Adam Arenas went to Santo Domingo without a camera, came back with a Ricoh and a reason to return. His account of the Zona Colonial, in
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A Photo Story: The First City in the Americas
Adam Arenas went to Santo Domingo without a camera, came back with a Ricoh and a reason to return. His account of
A Photo Story: Nobody Is Looking at the View
Flavia Silva walked the port district of Rio de Janeiro on a gray July Wednesday and came home with twelve pictures in
A Photo Story: Seventy Voices, Twenty Six Recorded
Bojan Fürst set out to profile seventy Newfoundlanders and Labradorians for the seventieth anniversary of the province joining Canada. He finished twenty
A Photo Story: The Masks That Scared Him as a Boy
Ajay Lalu stopped at the Kaapse Klopse on his way home from a photo walk. Three years later, after earning his way
A Photo Story: What Thirty Eight Years as a Rabbi Taught Him to Notice
A retired rabbi turned street photographer stumbled onto a Brooklyn Chabad camp trip on a ferry to Governors Island. What he found
A Photo Story: One Camera One Lens One Family Holiday
Rob Sutherland is a commercial and landscape photographer who has shot a photo a day for sixteen years. On a family trip
Behind The Shot
Behind The Shot With David Mullin
David Mullin photographed the empty tables at his family favorite restaurant on a Leica M6, and the picture became his test of
Behind The Shot With Neil McShane
Neil McShane made this photograph from a bench in his front garden in 2022, while recovering from sepsis with a Fuji X-T20
Behind The Shot With Jasper Bancroft
A figure appears in the mist at the Osaka Expo, caught on a Leica M3 loaded with Ilford Delta 3200. Jasper Bancroft
Behind The Shot With Mark Archibald
Mark Archibald had long kept a quarter mile gravel road in mind as a good sunset vantage point over an Amish farm
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
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
Photographer Spotlight
Photographer Spotlight: Dani Rüede
Dani Rüede bought his first serious camera to photograph his watch collection. A Ricoh GR III turned him into a street photographer,
Photographer Spotlight: Danny Wong
Danny Wong grew up understanding his family through photo albums. Now he carries one camera and one lens, photographs mood rather than
Photographer Spotlight: Kayleigh Morin
Kayleigh Morin started as an artist frustrated that drawing could not capture light the way she wanted. Self portraits led to photographing
Photographer Spotlight: Leighton Phillips
Leighton Phillips describes his work as Urban Still Life, drawn to the mundane, the ignored, and the visually familiar rather than anything
Photographer Spotlight: Flora van Wageningen
Flora van Wageningen picked up a camera in her late thirties, restless and bored with the city she had settled in, and
Photographer Spotlight: Damian Ward
Damian Ward is drawn to woodland and solitary trees, especially in winter when the branches are bare, in a landscape he describes
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Weekly News Roundup
A genuinely rich week. We lost a pioneering photojournalist, a Dorothea Lange archive has been made public for the first time, a photographer is suing a well known artist over alleged image appropriation, and a new biography uncovers a photographer whose second career was espionage.
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What Rembrandt Knew About Light That Most Photographers Don’t
Long before anyone pointed a camera at a face, painters were solving the exact problem every portrait photographer still faces. How do you make a flat surface hold the weight and depth of a real human face using nothing but light and shadow. Rembrandt solved it so well that photographers are still using his name…
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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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Learning to See: Part 4
Alex fixed the thing that went wrong in the alley, off center placement, real negative space, a frame that finally had somewhere for the eye to breathe. It worked. Then Alex tried something the camera couldn’t help with at all, walking up to a stranger and asking for a portrait. That didn’t go nearly as…
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The Label Isn’t the Cage. Forgetting You Can Leave Is.
Almost every photographer eventually picks up a label. Street photographer. Landscape photographer. Portrait photographer. There’s nothing wrong with that. The label isn’t the problem. What it quietly turns into, if you’re not paying attention, is.
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Photographer Spotlight: Onni Laine
Onni Laine found his direction in Japan in 2024 after years of shooting without a real purpose. What he found there was streets that feel slightly oppressive, slightly paranoia inducing, and a growing dissatisfaction with the silhouettes and clever reflections that street photography tends to reward too easily. He shoots ninety percent spontaneously with a…
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The Collective Eye No. 4
Every week we feature one photograph from the Collective and invite honest feedback from the community. No names attached, no backstory beyond what the photographer was trying to achieve. Just the image, open for genuine critique.
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The Worst Advice You Ever Got About Photography?
Every photographer has a piece of advice they were given once, believed completely, and eventually had to unlearn the hard way. We rounded up some of the classics. Now we want to hear one from you.
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Weekly News Roundup
A genuinely substantial week. Ricoh marks 30 years of the original GR1 with a special edition GR IV, freelance photojournalists are pushing back hard on a new Wall Street Journal contract, a rare gangster photography series gets its due, and a veteran street photographer makes the case for why the genre matters more now than…
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The Collective Eye No. 3
Every week we feature one photograph from the Collective and invite honest feedback from the community. No names attached, no backstory beyond what the photographer was trying to achieve. Just the image, open for genuine critique.