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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A Violin Doesn’t Make Music
Two violinists can play the same instrument on the same night in the same hall and produce completely different things. Two photographers with identical cameras standing in the same place make completely different photographs. The camera is not the variable. You are.
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Behind The Shot With Peggy Becker
Peggy Becker walked into a salt marsh on Martha’s Vineyard one early morning carrying her camera and a heavy heart. She was thinking about rising seas and a warming world. Then she found a spider’s web in the last of the light and everything shifted.
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Weekly News Roundup
A massive week. Sony and Canon both announced significant new cameras on May 13. DJI debuted the Osmo Pocket 4P at the Cannes Film Festival. Panasonic surprised everyone with the LUMIX L10. And Sigma confirmed one of the most anticipated lenses in recent memory. Here is everything worth knowing.
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If You Could Only Keep Ten Photographs
Most photographers have thousands of images sitting on hard drives they will never look at again. Here is an exercise that cuts through all of it and shows you something true about your own work that nothing else will.
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Behind The Shot With Darren Pellegrino
Darren Pellegrino had been passing Spot Pond on his way to his Boston studio for years, waiting for the right conditions. One foggy January morning with six inches of fresh snow on the ground and his hands freezing he finally pressed the shutter. This is the story behind the shot.
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Canon Officially Announces the EOS R6 V
Canon announced the EOS R6 V on May 13 and at first glance it looks like a camera built for videographers. Look closer and there are some genuinely interesting capabilities for black and white still photography hiding beneath that boxy design.
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Photographer Spotlight: Stephen Uhraney
Stephen Uhraney has been photographing real life for over 40 years and he still does not feel like it is work. The Toronto based documentary and street photographer shoots film and digital side by side, embeds with firefighters and police marine units, and carries a Rolleiflex alongside his digital gear. We asked him about the…
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Shooting More Is Not the Answer
Shoot every day. Shoot thousands of frames. The more you shoot the better you get. This advice is everywhere and it contains a kernel of truth wrapped around a significant misunderstanding. Here is what actually makes photographers improve.
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You Have Never Seen a Black and White Photograph
Every editing decision you make on a black and white image is shaped by your reference point for what a great black and white photograph looks like. If that reference point is a glowing screen you are working from a lie. Here is what gelatin silver prints can teach every digital photographer in 2026.
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Weekly News Roundup
A quieter week on the announcement front but plenty worth knowing about. New lenses from Viltrox and ZY Optics debut in Beijing, OM System is rumored to be building a dedicated monochrome camera, and Daido Moriyama opens at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris.