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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Rhythm Is What Keeps the Eye Moving Through a Photograph
Rhythm is what keeps the eye moving through a still photograph. Here is what it actually is, why the eye enjoys repetition so much, and how black and white photographers can find it, shape it and break it.
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How to Find a Photograph Inside the Chaos
Busy scenes are some of the hardest to photograph in black and white. Here is why chaos turns to gray noise without color, and how light, time, angle and patience can give a crowded frame a center.
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The Color Photographer Every Monochrome Shooter Should Know
Jay Maisel, who photographed the Miles Davis cover of Kind of Blue and taught generations of photographers to watch for light and gesture, has died at 95. Most of what he taught works without color.
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Aperture Finally Has a Permanent Home in New York
Aperture, the publisher founded in 1952 by Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and Minor White, opens its first permanent home on New York’s Upper West Side, with a bookstore, a gallery and a season of talks.
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Canon Built the R8 Mark II to Look Like the Camera That Started EOS
Canon’s EOS R8 Mark II keeps its 24.2MP full frame sensor, adds in body stabilization and borrows its looks from the EOS 650 film camera. Here is what it offers black and white photographers.
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How Black And White Erases Time
Put a portrait from 1942 beside one from 2016 and, in black and white, it is hard to tell which is older. Here is how black and white takes the date out of a photograph, and what can still give it away.
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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 and three old Zuiko lenses. The project changed what he photographs.
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Color Describes the World. Black and White Interprets It.
Elliott Erwitt said color is descriptive and black and white is interpretive. Here is what that actually means, why he made much of his living in color, and why converting a photograph is not the same as interpreting it.
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Leica’s New 66mm Summicron Began Life as a Navy Spy Lens
Leica’s new Summicron-M 66 f/2 reinterprets a rare lens built for US Navy reconnaissance. Here is what Leica announced, and why its unusual focal length and high contrast rendering might appeal to black and white photographers.
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A New Film Gives Gerda Taro Her Name Back
A new film from Alina Marazzi tells the story of Gerda Taro, the photographer who shared the name Robert Capa and was nearly written out of it. Here is what we know about the film, and why her story matters.