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 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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Do You Prefer Odd or Even Numbers?
Have you ever looked at a photo of three people and felt drawn in, then looked at a photo of two and felt like something was missing, without being able to say why? Most photographers have a quiet preference for odd or even numbers in their compositions and have never noticed it. Here’s what that…
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Technical Skill Will Only Take You So Far
Most photographers spend their early years chasing technical correctness. Correct exposure. Sharp focus. Clean backgrounds. These are real skills and they matter. But they’re not what makes a photograph memorable. They are the floor not the ceiling.
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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…
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Learning to See: Part 1
We have gotten some messages from people who are new to black and white photography and do not know where to start. Over the coming weeks we are going to follow Alex through the early stages of learning to see in monochrome. This is where it begins.
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Weekly News Roundup
A solid week. Viltrox announces a 28mm pancake for L-mount, the Insta360 Luna Ultra officially launches with Leica co-engineering, 7Artisans announces a fast 135mm for Sony E and L-mount, and the World Press Photo Exhibition 2026 is still running in several cities worth knowing about.
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A Photo Story: Ignitions
Andrés Gonzalez started asking questions about Portugal’s wildfires in 2023 and has not stopped since. He rides hundreds of kilometers on a motorcycle into the interior of the country while fires are still burning, sometimes arriving before emergency crews. Ignitions is not a project about flames. It is a project about the exhausting human reality…
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What Makes a Photograph Have Soul?
Some photographs stop you. Not because they are technically perfect or compositionally flawless or because the subject is inherently interesting. They stop you because they have something that most photographs do not. Something that is immediately felt and almost impossible to name. We are calling it soul and we want to talk about what it…
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Behind The Shot With Neil Silk
Neil Silk’s wife gave him tickets to see Joe Bonamassa at the Royal Albert Hall for Christmas 2023. No professional gear was allowed so he brought a £50 Canon compact he had picked up secondhand. Security laughed. His phone would have been worse. Back at the hotel that night scrolling through blurry unusable frames his…
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When Minimalism Stops Working
A community member said something recently that stopped us. Sometimes minimalism is so quiet it does not say anything and loses its soul. They are right. And it is worth talking about why that happens and how to make sure your minimalism is working for the image rather than substituting for it.