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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A Museum Just Paid a Record Price for Seven Platinum Prints From 1898
The Toledo Museum of Art has bought F. Holland Day’s The Seven Words, seven platinum prints from 1898 and one of only three known sets. Here is the work, the photographer, and why platinum still matters.
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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 into the rehearsals, workshops and homes behind the parade, the work became a book.
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Overexposure, Underexposure and the Mood In Between
Your meter aims for middle gray, but the best black and white photographs rarely live there. Here is when to underexpose, when to overexpose, and how to do both on purpose.
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The Other Kind of Focus
A photograph can be perfectly sharp and still leave us cold. Here is the difference between optical focus and emotional focus, and why black and white photographs depend on getting the second one right.
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The Collective Eye No. 7
Every week we feature one photograph from the Collective and invite honest feedback from the community. No names attached, no backstory beyond what the photographer was trying to achieve. Just the image, open for genuine critique.
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How Our Minds Organize a Black and White Photograph
Nobody has ever seen a hunter in the night sky, yet we all see Orion. Here is Gestalt psychology in plain terms, and how the way our minds organize what they see can make black and white photographs stronger.
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Nikon’s Cheapest Full Frame Camera Has No Viewfinder
Nikon’s new Z5IIC removes the electronic viewfinder to come in $450 under the Z5II, and keeps the same sensor and stabilization. Here is what it offers black and white photographers, and what it costs them.
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Cartier-Bresson Never Said a Word. Diane Arbus Knocked on the Door.
Henri Cartier-Bresson worked unseen. Diane Arbus walked up and got to know people. Two of the greatest black and white photographers, and two opposite answers to how close we should get.
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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 a subject, and keeps coming back to black and white for the peace of it.
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Two Filters That Monochrome Photographers Need
Most filters have been replaced by software. The black mist filter and the ND filter have not, because they change the light before it reaches the sensor. Here is why both belong in a black and white photographer’s bag.