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
Neil McShane made this photograph from a bench in his front garden in 2022, while recovering from sepsis with a Fuji X-T20
A figure appears in the mist at the Osaka Expo, caught on a Leica M3 loaded with Ilford Delta 3200. Jasper Bancroft
Mark Archibald had long kept a quarter mile gravel road in mind as a good sunset vantage point over an Amish farm
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
Danny Wong grew up understanding his family through photo albums. Now he carries one camera and one lens, photographs mood rather than
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
A new autofocus technology is making its way to third-party lenses, promising greater precision and speed. This could mean exciting new tools for our monochrome vision.
A massive week for the monochrome community: Leica breaks 60 years of tradition with the Noctilux-M 35mm f/1.2, while Ricoh officially enters the “dedicated monochrome” sensor game with the pocketable GR IV Monochrome. Plus, new data reveals a staggering 89% surge in black and white film sales, and Apple takes a shot at Adobe with…
We’re always looking for tools that inspire, and Panasonic’s new Lumix S9 colorways hint at a classic aesthetic. These fresh looks could be the perfect complement to your monochrome vision.
The photographic landscape is subtly changing, with the Nikon D850 seeing a price increase. This shift quietly positions the Nikon Z7 II as a compelling, more affordable alternative.
Stop fighting the shadows and start using them. Chiaroscuro is the classic “light-dark” technique used by masters from Caravaggio to modern cinematographers. Learn how to use a single light source and spot metering to create dramatic, three-dimensional monochrome portraits.
Leica has finally bridged a 60-year gap in its lens lineup with the announcement of the Noctilux-M 35mm f/1.2 ASPH. By combining ultra-high-speed glass with a compact 50mm form factor, Wetzlar has created the ultimate tool for available-light photography. From precision glass molding to a new 0.5m close-focus limit, this is the new “Swiss Army…
Apple Creator Studio is finally here for $12.99/month. We break down the newly integrated Pixelmator Pro, the iPad workflow, and how it stacks up against the Adobe giant.
We’re told that every photo needs a beginning, middle, and end. But what if that advice is actually holding you back? This week, I’m calling out the “Storytelling Lie” and explaining why the most powerful monochrome images aren’t stories they’re visual poems.
Cinematography is the ultimate school for photographers. Learn how to use the FilmGrab archive to master lighting and composition to bring a cinematic edge to your still images.
Coming home with no good images feels like a failure but it is actually a sign of growth. Learn how to reframe your “zero days” as essential creative practice and why an empty memory card is better than a mediocre one.
