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
Neil McShane made this photograph from a bench in his front garden in 2022, while recovering from sepsis with a Fuji X-T20
A figure appears in the mist at the Osaka Expo, caught on a Leica M3 loaded with Ilford Delta 3200. Jasper Bancroft
Mark Archibald had long kept a quarter mile gravel road in mind as a good sunset vantage point over an Amish farm
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
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
Most photographers shoot reactively. Something interesting appears and they respond to it. Project photography is the opposite and the difference in what it produces is significant. Here is why committing to a subject over time is one of the most powerful things a photographer can do.
A big week for gear. GoPro has made the most ambitious product announcement in its history. DJI launched the Osmo Pocket 4. NAB opened in Las Vegas. And Viltrox keeps expanding its lens lineup in ways that matter to serious photographers.
David Clark retired three years ago and bought his first serious camera. Since then he has been making up for lost time. A week in Havana on a portrait workshop led by legendary photographer Peter Turnley changed how he thinks about photographing people. Here is the story.
The photography industry is very good at making you feel like your current gear is not enough. Most of the time it is wrong. But sometimes upgrading is genuinely the right call. Here is how to tell the difference.
Kirill Baranovskiy on street photography, shooting spontaneously, and why the best photographs tell their own story.
For the past several months Joe Moro has been returning two or three times a week to the same corner in Melbourne. The same stretch of footpath. The same light. The same cast of strangers who are slowly becoming familiar. This is what it looks like when a photographer decides to go deep instead of…
Why do some black and white photographs stop you completely while others, technically accomplished and carefully processed, leave you feeling nothing? I have finally found a way to answer it.
Wabi-sabi is a Japanese aesthetic philosophy that finds beauty in imperfection and impermanence. It is not a filter or a style. It is a way of seeing. And once you understand it, you will never look at a photograph the same way again.
A big week. Artemis II returned from the Moon with 10,000 photographs. The Salgado auction closed in New York. Lee Miller opens in Paris. And there is new gear and exhibition news worth knowing about.
The advice is everywhere. Do not take the same photograph as everyone else. Find a unique angle. Push past the obvious shot. It is good advice. It is also incomplete. Here is what it leaves out.
