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
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 a world that scrolls endlessly forward, even beauty becomes temporary. We create, we share, and then we watch our work sink beneath the next wave of newness. But preservation isn’t nostalgia it’s an act of care. To look back is to remember why we began, and to keep alive the quiet things that time…
The darkroom taught more than chemistry it taught patience, presence, and the art of slowing down. Even in the digital age, those lessons remain. To see deeply, you must print, wait, and work by feel. Photography may have left the darkroom, but the darkroom never really left photography.
There are decisive moments, yes, but also decisive silences, pauses, and imperfections. A blink, a breath, a shadow falling slightly out of place can carry the same truth. Photography isn’t about catching a single perfect instant; it’s about being present to the endless moments that flow through your frame.
There’s an old saying in photography: some of us hunt, others fish. The hunter chases fleeting moments; the fisher waits for the world to reveal itself. Understanding both instincts motion and stillness can change the way you see through the lens.
Over twelve years, Luis Casadevall walked the streets of Havana not as a visitor, but as a listener. His camera became a vessel for voices of children, elders, and crumbling walls that still hum with life. We Still Have the Soul gathers these moments into a portrait of Cuba that feels both timeless and deeply…
The Monochrome Mind is a way of perceiving the world without the interference of color a practice of clarity, attention, and presence. It teaches us that what matters in an image is not how it looks, but how it feels in light and shadow.
Even without holding it, the Leica M EV1 feels like a camera made for monochrome shooters precise, deliberate, and capable of capturing subtle tonal nuance. For those who treasure legacy M lenses and black and white photography, it promises a thoughtful evolution of the Leica M system.
The strongest black and white photographs don’t rely only on light or composition. They breathe through silence, atmosphere, and time three quiet forces that shape how we feel an image as much as how we see it.
Every time a new camera drops, photographers rush to dissect specs and dream of sharper, faster, better shots. But the truth is, most of us already have all the gear we need. What really makes a photograph stand out isn’t the camera it’s the craft. Mastering light, timing, and composition will do more for your…
Cropping is one of the most powerful tools in monochrome photography. Learn how to choose the perfect aspect ratio from 1:1 squares to 4:5 verticals to enhance contrast, texture, and composition in every black-and-white image.
