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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The Black and White Setting Hiding in Every Phone
The grayscale setting on our phones is usually sold as a way to cut screen time. For black and white photographers it is something better, a way to see which photographs actually hold up without their color.
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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 on waiting twenty minutes, taking a single frame, and wanting a form rather than a person.
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If It Doesn’t Work in Two Tones, It Won’t Work in a Hundred
Seeing in tone gets easier when we stop trying to see every gray at once. Notan, an idea from Japanese art that was taught to American photographers a century ago, starts with just two.
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The PEN Is Back, and It Has a Switch Marked Mono
OM System has revived the PEN with a rangefinder body, a built in viewfinder and a switch on the front marked Color and Mono. Here is what it offers black and white shooters, and where it falls short.
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A Centuries Old Technique For Photographers
Long before anyone pointed a camera at anything, painters were already proving that color was not required to create convincing depth, weight, or emotional force. Grisaille, the centuries old technique of painting entirely in shades of gray, has a lot to teach anyone working in black and white today.
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Apple Put a Real Aperture Inside a Phone
Phones have faked depth of field for years. The iPhone 18 Pro has six metal blades that actually move, and for once the choice about how much of the frame is sharp is yours.
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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 near his home. When near whiteout conditions hit instead, wind whipping snow until sky and farmland became indistinguishable, he drove out before the roads got too bad, hoping a photograph could actually convey…
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The Myth of Photographic Truth
When photography was invented, it was received as something radically different from painting, a mechanical, objective record of reality rather than an interpreted one. That belief was flawed from nearly the very beginning. Here is the real history of photographic truth, and how far we have actually strayed from it.
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Weekly News Roundup
A solid week for gear news specifically. Fujifilm delivers a serious new super telephoto prime, OM System teases what looks like a new Pen camera, Pentax’s last DSLR quietly disappears from Japanese retailers, Westcott announces a genuinely clever collapsible cart, Metabones returns with refreshed adapters, and a Japanese retailer tests one of the strangest lenses…
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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 others, and a lifelong love of fashion pulled her toward it as a genre. Her black and white work leans into high contrast, a deliberate choice she says mirrors her own emotional range.…