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
There is a difference between glancing at a photograph and actually looking at it. Most people glance. Social media has made all of us very good at glancing. Here is what it looks like when you actually stop and read an image and why developing that habit will change your photography.
Every working photographer has a hard drive full of images that did not fit the brief. Ben Lumley decided to do something about it. Photos While I’m Working is the series he built from a decade of moments nobody commissioned and nobody asked for. It might be his most honest work.
Find your style. Develop your style. Have a consistent style. It is the most repeated piece of advice in photography. It is also backwards. Here is why chasing style is getting in the way of better work and what to do instead.
Every serious photographer travels an arc. The work that excited you when you started is not the work that moves you now. The light you chased then is not the light you chase today. Here is what that shift is really about and we want to hear how it has shown up in your own…
We talk about autofocus and auto exposure as technical improvements. They are. But the more significant thing they did has nothing to do with sharpness or exposure accuracy. They gave the photographer back to the moment.
A layered photograph is one where the eye keeps finding something new. Not complexity for its own sake but depth that reveals itself gradually. Here is what that means in practice and how to create it deliberately rather than accidentally.
A busy week coming out of NAB. Panasonic has a new 40mm prime worth knowing about, Canon’s anniversary compact is already selling out, and Blackmagic just announced something that could change how a lot of photographers edit.
Most photographers use creative and original as if they are the same word. They are not. The confusion is causing real anxiety and getting in the way of real work. Here is a more honest and more useful way to think about what being creative actually means.
Photojournalism presents itself as the gold standard of honest photography. The unmanipulated truth. The moment as it actually happened. The reality is more complicated and the gap between the claim and the practice is worth looking at honestly.
Matt Hodson calls his style post-street. Not the decisive moment but the moment after. Not the person but the space they left behind. It sounds like a stylistic choice. It is also a philosophy that grew directly out of grief. Here is the photographer behind it.
