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 Color Tool Every Black and White Photographer Should Be Using
A color editing tool for black and white photography sounds like a contradiction. It is not. It is one of the most precise, powerful ways to expand tonal separation in a monochrome image, and it is closer to traditional darkroom craft than most photographers realize.
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What Actually Makes an Image Feel Three Dimensional
You have probably heard the phrase 3D pop, usually attached to a claim about some specific vintage lens. The actual term is micro contrast, and it is a real, definable thing. It is also one of the more genuinely misunderstood and marketing distorted ideas in photography right now.
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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 most years since. A midwinter fortnight with only a couple of hours of rain, practically unheard of that far north in January, gave him a cold bright morning at low tide, marram grass…
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The Gap Between Tips and Better Photographs
You have read the articles. You know the rule of thirds, leading lines, golden hour, the exposure triangle, all of it, fluently. And your photographs have not improved at anywhere near the rate that volume of information would suggest they should have. Here is why that gap is not your fault, and why it will…
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Weekly News Roundup
A genuinely varied week. A music photographer is suing over a painting made from his image that sold for nearly two million dollars, Linda McCartney is getting her own postage stamps, a New Mexico court hit Meta with its largest child safety fine yet, and the first photographs of a fresh impact crater on the…
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To Nudge or Not to Nudge
You spent real time with a subject. You understood something about it a viewer never will just from looking. Do you tell them, or do you let the image speak for itself and trust them to find their own way in.
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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 conventionally beautiful. His black and white style emerged gradually, shaped by a belief that removing color lets light and tone carry the emotional weight of a scene. We asked him about a dying…
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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 was less about religious difference and more about what a hundred kids look like on a field trip.
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Does the Camera See What You See?
Stand in front of something that genuinely moves you and raise a camera. What comes out the other end rarely matches what you felt standing there. That gap is not a flaw in your camera. It is the entire creative problem photography exists to solve.
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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 dull, dreary weather. Walking the shoreline of Lake Minnewanka in falling snow, she found a diving platform still anchored out in the lake, alone in a sea of white. It mirrored exactly how…