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 Phil Anker
Phil Anker always takes in Salisbury Cathedral on his photo walks because of what the light does in the cloisters at different times of day. One afternoon a man sat on a corner wall with beautiful light falling on him and Phil sat down on the low wall opposite, opened his flip screen, and waited.…
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Is Black and White Just a Filter?
Someone asked us recently whether black and white is sometimes treated as a filter or a mood rather than a genuine creative decision and how you know when a subject actually calls for monochrome. It is one of the best questions we have been asked in a while. Here is our honest answer.
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Weekly News Roundup
Viltrox announces two more APS-C EVO lenses ahead of their June 8 launch, the Sony a7R VI begins shipping, Luminar Neo is running its biggest sale of the year, Peak Design’s new travel bags hit retail, Light Lens Lab adds a 75mm to the Leica M lineup, the Nikon 120-300mm f/2.8 shows up at Roland…
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Behind The Shot With Shane Guidaboni
Shane Guidaboni was riding the 66 bus through Brookline in 2015 when he noticed a mother asleep across the aisle, one daughter out cold on her lap, the other wide awake and quietly going through her purse. He had no camera. He had an iPhone 6s and about thirty seconds of soft afternoon light coming…
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The Five Stages of Buying a New Camera
Every photographer who has ever bought a new camera has been through all five stages. The denial that you need one. The research that somehow only turns up five star reviews. The purchase. The brief and glorious euphoria. And then the quiet realization that your photographs look exactly the same as they did before. You…
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Behind The Shot With Thomas Hren
It started with a used photography book and an invitation for coffee. By the end of the conversation Claudia had shared something she rarely told anyone. A few days later she was standing in a studio. What happened between them that day is what true portrait photography looks like when it is done with honesty,…
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Photographer Spotlight: Steven Sosa
Steven Sosa has been at it long enough to know that the style you develop is not something you plan. It is something you discover through practice and persistence and the willingness to keep going even when the motivation is hard to find. He shoots street on a Fujifilm X-Pro 2, X100V, Ricoh GR3, and…
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Why Black and White Is the Language of Portrait Photography
There is a reason the most enduring portraits in the history of photography are almost all in black and white. It is not nostalgia and it is not aesthetics. It is about what happens when you remove color from a face and what the viewer is forced to look at instead.
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Weekly News Roundup
A meaningful week. The Ricoh GR IV Monochrome wins the Camera Grand Prix Technical Award, the Viltrox 55mm EVO review consensus comes in strong, Leica releases a phone, Canon discontinues a classic lens and raises prices, Capture One announces a 6% price increase, and Viltrox is not done yet.
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Behind The Shot With Tamas Kereskenyi
For nearly twenty years Tamas Kereskenyi could not walk through this square without feeling the weight of it. Anger. Helplessness. The suffocating atmosphere of a political reality that had frozen the place into a symbol of absolute power. Then history changed. He came back for the first time not as a protestor but as a…