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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Give the Eye Somewhere to Land
The eye is not passive when it looks at a photograph. It is always moving, always searching, always trying to find the thing it is supposed to look at. Your job is to make that search as short as possible and the destination as inevitable as possible. Here is how.
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A Photo Story: Almost Broken
Jami Azad is a filmmaker based between Los Angeles and Karachi who photographs as therapy. Almost Broken is the work that came from years of looking for the same thing in two countries on opposite sides of the world. The face that has not yet given up. And the one that has.
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Build the Practice. Everything Else Follows.
A regular photography practice is not about producing great work every session. It is about showing up consistently enough that the eye keeps developing, the instincts keep sharpening, and the camera starts to feel like an extension of how you see rather than a tool you pick up occasionally. Here is why that matters and…
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Why Every Photographer Should Shoot Outside Their Genre
Most photographers stay in their lane because it feels productive. The street photographer shoots streets. The landscape photographer shoots landscapes. The skills keep building and the work keeps improving. Until it stops. Here is why shooting outside your genre is one of the most effective things you can do to start growing again.
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Photographer Spotlight: Kevin Delajoud
Kevin Delajoud came to photography through architecture and urban spaces and has never really left. His work is built on geometry, negative space, and the particular kind of emptiness that says something true about how people move through cities without ever really seeing them. He shoots with a Canon R7, edits minimally in Photoshop, and…
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Weekly News Roundup
A quieter week on the big camera announcement front but plenty worth paying attention to. A nearly forgotten Dorothea Lange archive just went free online, Leica pushed a meaningful firmware update to the Q3 family, and several new lenses landed that are directly relevant to monochrome shooters.
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What Your Camera Bag Says About You
You can tell a lot about a photographer from their camera bag. Not from what camera is inside it. From the bag itself. What is in it, how it is packed, and what is wedged into the side pocket that has absolutely no business being there.
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A Photo Story: Derailed
In July 2022 Dustin Mullin stopped in Green River Utah to buy groceries. The grocery store was immaculate. Fully stocked. Carefully maintained. In a town where businesses had been closing for decades someone still cared deeply enough to keep the shelves full. That detail stayed with him for four years. When he came back with…
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Light Is Not Your Subject
Photographers talk about light constantly. The golden hour. The quality of winter light. Chasing the light. But light is not your subject. It is the language you use to describe your subject. Here is why that distinction matters more than you might think.
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Every Landscape Has Characters. Are You Finding Them?
Most landscape photographs are beautiful descriptions. They show you what a place looks like. But description is not story. Here is how to find the characters in your landscape, let light define them, and build something the viewer cannot look away from.