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
In each edition of Photographer Spotlight, The Monochrome Collective sits down with a featured artist to uncover their story how they see, what inspires them, and the creative choices that define their black and white work.
Stop wasting your focus on the empty sky. Learn the “Blanket” trick to keep your foreground and background sharp, and how to use those “secret” markings on your manual lenses.
From Ricoh’s massive firmware update to the defining photos of the Winter Olympics, here are the biggest stories in photography this week.
Nikon’s Z f camera recently got an update that speaks to the heart of classic photography. We’re diving into the new in camera film grain feature.
Wes Anderson is famous for his colorful pastel worlds. But underneath the saturation lies a rigid structure of symmetry and texture that offers a masterclass for black and white photographers.
Ricoh has released a major firmware update for the GR IV, adding an electronic shutter to the standard model and improving overall system stability.
Walking up to a stranger is often the hardest part of the craft. But the secret to a great street portrait isn’t in your shutter speed it’s in the first thirty seconds of conversation. Here’s how to get past the “creep factor” and start seeing people as individuals, not just subjects.
In 2026, the watermark is a false sense of security that is doing more harm to your art than good. If you can remove a logo in three taps with AI, why are we still scarring our compositions? Today, we’re looking at why the most confident photographers are ditching the logo and using three invisible…
Is great photography just luck? Not quite. We’re diving into the art of anticipation, the “spidey sense” that allows you to see a shot before it happens. Learn how to “Set the Stage” and why seeing two seconds into the future is the secret to a perfect frame.
When the rest of the world goes loud and colorful, the most striking thing you can do is go quiet and monochrome. This week, we look at the stunning Super Bowl campaign shot on Kodak 35mm film, and what it teaches us about tonal structure, intentional framing, and the power of black and white to…
