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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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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Does It Matter How You Carry Your Camera?
What’s actually attached to your camera right now? A neck strap, a wrist strap, a hand grip, or nothing at all? This is one of those topics where there’s no single right answer, just a lot of photographers who’ve landed somewhere specific through trial and error. We want to know where you landed.
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Weekly News Roundup
A big week. Adobe is buying Topaz Labs, which has photographers asking real questions about what happens to their workflow next. LK Samyang and Schneider-Kreuznach round out a lightweight zoom trio that’s been turning heads since CP+. And an exhibition opening this weekend shows the very last photographs Martin Parr ever made, shot at the…
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Photographer Spotlight: Lee Griffith
Lee Griffith started developing film in a shed with duct taped light leaks and chemistry stored in bottles his mortician gave him. Decades and a near-death experience later, he still shoots ninety five percent spontaneously, rotates through Polaroids and Hasselblads depending on how his hand feels in the dry cabinet, and credits a small town…
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The Collective Eye No. 1
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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What Graphic Designers Know About Your Photographs That You Don’t
A graphic designer decides exactly what you read first, second, and third. Nothing is left to chance. Most photographers never think this explicitly, they just feel whether a composition “works.” Borrowing the designer’s vocabulary directly gives you a sharper tool than instinct alone.
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Is Noise Ruining Your Photographs?
Every photographer worries about noise in their images. Almost nobody worries about the noise in their head, the unfinished argument, the unanswered email, the mental list running underneath everything, quietly deciding whether you’re actually present enough to see what’s in front of you.
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Learning to See: Part 2
Alex went out for the second time with a new habit and an obsession. Light. The walls and doorways suddenly had something happening on them that hadn’t been visible the week before. Then a real moment showed up, light and subject together, and Alex froze.
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The Photographs You Weren’t Trying to Make
You plan the shoot. You scout the location. You go out with the camera ready and the intention set. And you come back with nothing worth keeping. Then on the way to pick up milk, camera slung over your shoulder almost as an afterthought, you make one of the best images you’ve ever taken. Here’s…
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Weekly News Roundup
A busy week on the gear front. Viltrox, Brightin Star, and 7Artisans all have something new. Ricoh is raising prices on every GR model in Japan starting next month. Lightroom Classic got a meaningful update. And the Black & White International Photo Awards exhibition opens in Manhattan next week, worth knowing about if you’re nearby.