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  • Zone Focusing: The Fastest Way to Never Miss a Shot

    Zone Focusing: The Fastest Way to Never Miss a Shot

    Zone focusing sounds technical. It is not. It is one of the most useful things a street photographer can learn and Dave Herring explains it better than almost anyone.

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  • A Photo Story: Cuba 25 Years Ago

    A Photo Story: Cuba 25 Years Ago

    Twenty five years ago, Eduardo Cerda Sanchez boarded a plane to Cuba. He was not going as a photographer with a project. He was going as a student, with a camera, three months, and no agenda. Cuba, it turns out, does not need a photographer with a project. It just needs one willing to show…

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  • Weekly News Roundup

    Weekly News Roundup

    Fujifilm announces the Instax Mini 13, Sony takes its authenticity solution to video, and there is new gear and exhibition news worth knowing about this week.

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  • The Photography Contest Industry Does Not Care About Your Photography

    The Photography Contest Industry Does Not Care About Your Photography

    Photography contests look like opportunity. Some of them are. Most of them are something else entirely. Here is what the industry does not want you to think too hard about.

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  • To Crop or Not To Crop That Is The Question

    To Crop or Not To Crop That Is The Question

    Somewhere along the way we decided that cropping a photograph was an admission of failure. It is not. It never was. And believing otherwise is costing you better images.

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  • What Your Worst Photos Are Trying to Tell You

    What Your Worst Photos Are Trying to Tell You

    We delete our failures as quickly as we can. We should be studying them instead. The photographs that did not work are trying to tell you something important.

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  • A Photo Story: Into the Cold

    A Photo Story: Into the Cold

    For over a century, Milwaukeeans have started their new year the hard way. André Saint Louis has spent the last four years documenting the chaos, the cold, and the characters who keep coming back.

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  • You Are Already an Artist, Own It!

    You Are Already an Artist, Own It!

    Most photographers will tell you they are just someone who takes pictures. They are wrong. And the reluctance to say otherwise is costing them more than they realise.

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  • We Are All Still Fighting The Battle

    We Are All Still Fighting The Battle

    Painters feared it. Critics dismissed it. Institutions ignored it. For over a century, photography was not considered art. That fight was won. But it is not as over as you might think.

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  • Weekly News Roundup

    Weekly News Roundup

    Adobe reaches a $150 million settlement with the Department of Justice, the Getty Museum acquires a landmark Irving Penn series, and there is new gear worth knowing about from Manfrotto and Laowa.

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