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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Why Monochrome is a Time Machine
Color is a timestamp. It anchors your photos to a specific year, a fashion trend, or a piece of technology. But monochrome is a time machine. Discover how stripping away the “noise” of color allows your images to escape the calendar and become truly eternal, focusing on universal human emotions rather than the distractions of…
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Is Your Photography Too Clinical? The Problem With Digital Perfection
Modern sensors are miracles of engineering, but for the monochrome photographer, that perfection is often the enemy. If your work feels sterile or flat, it’s likely lacking the “soul” of analog film. In this post, we explore why “clinical” isn’t the goal and how to reintroduce the organic chaos of grain to give your digital…
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Does Hue and Saturation Matter in Monochrome Photography?
If your black and white images look flat, you’re missing a trick. We dive into the most powerful surgical tool in your editing kit: the color sliders. Learn why Hue and Saturation adjustments are absolutely critical for achieving dramatic tonal separation in monochrome, transforming a flat image into a high contrast masterpiece.
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Are You an Imposter?
Every monochrome photographer deals with the “Imposter” voice. It tells you your work is just an imitation of the masters. We look at why this feeling hits B&W artists so hard, and why understanding the difference between an honest capture and a composite illusion is the key to finally silencing your inner critic.
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Juxtaposition: The Power of Two
Every great monochrome photograph is, at its core, a story of conflict. Juxtaposition is the master key to unlocking that tension. We look at how “The Power of Two” forces viewers to confront the raw relationship between elements like old vs. new, or hard vs. soft, revealing the deepest narrative in the absence of color.
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Are You a Cover Band Photographer?
Are you creating your own visual music or just playing the hits of the masters? We explore the cover band analogy in photography and how to use copying as a training tool without losing your own voice.
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A Better Way To Scroll Social Media
Most of us use social media as a digital pacifier, mindlessly scrolling through a blur of images. But for a photographer, the Doom Scroll is a missed opportunity. Today, we discuss a better way to use your phone to actually improve your eye.
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When is a Photograph Not a Photograph?
In an era of AI and heavy compositing the definition of photography is blurring. This week we ask the hard question: At what point does an image stop being a photograph and become something else?
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Time Magazines top 100 photos of 2025 How many are Monochrome?
The world’s defining photos of the year are out, and the number of black and white images is jarringly low: 5 out of 100. When color is used as the primary language of truth in photojournalism, what does it mean for us?
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Color is Noise, Monochrome is Silence
We live in a world screaming in high definition color. Every screen is a cacophony of hues fighting for your attention. But what happens when you silence that volume?