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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Every photographer has felt it. The creative flatness. The sense that something has gone. But inspiration does not actually go anywhere. Here is what is really happening and how to find your way back.
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Weekly News Roundup
Kodak drops six new films, Martin Parr’s first posthumous show opens in Paris, and Panasonic and Viltrox both have announcements worth paying attention to this week.
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The Idolatry of Sharpness
Someone used the phrase idolatry of sharpness recently and it stopped me in my tracks. Because it is exactly right. We have turned sharpness into a false god and photography is worse for it.
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A Photo Story: Built on Ashes
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The Most Interesting Photographs Are Made by The Most Interested Photographers
The most interesting photographs are almost never made by the most technically skilled photographers. They are made by the most curious ones. There is a difference worth understanding.
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Are Long Exposures Only for Landscape Photography?
Most photographers think long exposure belongs to the landscape. Alexey Titarenko spent the 1990s proving otherwise, and the results are some of the most haunting photographs ever made.
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Does your camera know how to laugh?
Street photography takes itself very seriously. Too seriously. Here is how to find the funny, why it matters, and why the best comic photographs are made by people who are paying very close attention.
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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
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
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