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
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
The Milky Way never showed. Two nights of clouds over the Vermillion Cliffs erased the whole reason for the trip. A dinner
David Clark has a modest summer home on a small island in Maine, and he has spent years trying not to make
Rakesh Subramanian doesn't remember which book first put the Bolivian salt flats in his head. He just remembers the feeling, and how
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
There is a moment that most photographers recognize. You step outside with a camera and something shifts. The noise in your head gets quieter. You start paying attention differently. For a long time this was just something photographers said to each other. A feeling. an intuition. Now there is a growing body of research that…
A new black and white film about the making of Breathless has more to teach photographers than it does filmmakers. Here is what to take from it.
Most of us learned photography through the exposure triangle. Aperture, shutter speed, ISO. Three variables, each one affecting the others. There is a second triangle. The Monochrome Triangle. Every time a photograph stops us in our tracks, all three points are working. Every time a photograph falls flat, at least one of them has failed.
Most photographers spend years chasing a style that was already theirs. Arty Lee’s journey to finding his fine art voice in black and white is worth watching.
There is a particular kind of photograph that does not reveal itself immediately. You make it, file it away, move on. Years pass. Then one day you return to it and something has changed, not in the image, but in you. Flora van Wageningen returned to her Faroe Islands photographs seven years after making them.…
There is a moment that most photographers recognise. You step outside with a camera and something shifts. The noise in your head gets quieter. You start paying attention differently. For a long time this was just something photographers said to each other. A feeling. An intuition. Now there is a growing body of research that…
A ship without an anchor is not free. It is lost. There is a difference between the two that most people miss. Freedom implies intention. Lost means drifting. Moved by whatever current happens to be running that day, with no fixed point to return to. A photograph without an anchor is the same thing.
Every beginner photography guide says the same thing. Keep the sun behind you. Light your subject from the front. Make sure everything is visible and evenly lit. It is practical advice. It is also, in black and white landscape photography, often completely wrong.
The photography world lost one of its most courageous voices this week. Paul Conroy, war photographer, survivor of the Homs siege, and one of the most principled photojournalists of his generation, died of a heart attack at 61. We also cover the Sony World Photography Awards Professional finalists, the Hasselblad Award, Catherine Opie at the…
August Sander had a simple idea. He wanted to photograph the German people. All of them. Not the famous ones. Not the beautiful ones. Everyone. He called the project People of the Twentieth Century. He spent most of his life on it. He never finished it. And in not finishing it, he created one of…
