The famed British photojournalist Ian Berry died last weekend, aged 92, following a short illness. His wife Kathie revealed on Instagram that he died peacefully, in the early hours, just as they were about to fly to the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia.
His career reads like a highlights reel of 20th century history: Sharpeville, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Vietnam War…
Wildlife photographerRodrigo González Pairoa faced challenges when capturing birds in Albatross Islet, Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica, Chile. Now his image of a Black-browed Albatross, shot with a full-frame DSLR that was released 14 years ago, was honored as the winner…
If you shoot portraits for a living, August Sander is a name you should know. His decades-long People of the 20th Century, for one, is a landmark in the discipline’s history.
An attempt to catalogue a cross-section of society by trade and social type, it set the…
How to plan and where to go for the "eclipse of the century" – the 2027 total solar eclipse
September 15, 2026
The total solar eclipse on August 02 2027 will bring 6 minutes and 22 seconds of totality – the longest until 2114 – to Luxor, the temple-strewn capital of ancient Egypt. But while media attention will focus on Luxor and the Nile, photographers actually have thousands of miles of eclipse track to choose from – including many well-known holiday locations.
On August 02, the moon’s shadow…
"Quality, color and reliability" – How this Scandinavian company has shaped the future of photography
September 14, 2026
When people think of the world’s most influential photography companies, the conversation often turns to Japan, Germany or the United States.
But Scandinavia has quietly built a remarkable legacy in imaging – from camera systems and lighting technology to…
Alina Marazzi’s The Girl with the Leica opened at the Venice Film Festial this month, and most of the coverage so far has focused on what it gets right and wrong as a biopic.
The mannered performances, the jazz-age dance numbers, the tangle of lovers and émigré…
This bird's fearsome, wide-open beak looks like it's picking a fight – but actually it's just a chick asking for food
September 14, 2026
Glance at this image momentarily and you get an instant sense of how this bird on the left is feeling. Fierce. Defiant. Ready to take on all comers.
That open beak, that unblinking stare. It has “apex predator readying for battle” written all over it. Well, that’s what I thought anyway. Turns out I was totally wrong.
According to the Italian photographer who took it, Philipp…
William Eggleston's photographs were once voted the most hated of the year – but this new retrospective proves just how wrong critics can be
September 13, 2026
Now 87, William Eggleston is known as the “Godfather of Color Photography” for helping establish it as a legitimate, high-art medium. But that was by no means an easy task, as a new exhibition in London, England, reminds us.
William Eggleston: All That Goes…
How a photographer who shoots caravans and snooker clubs landed praise from Robert Plant – and an exhibition inside a heritage museum
September 13, 2026
There’s a particular kind of photography that’s often a tough sell to the arty crowd. Deadpan shots of a humdrum world, boasting nothing obviously “clever” about them beyond good light and a clean composition. It’s the kind of work that might…
Baldwin Lee waited until the streets of New York had emptied of people, then took these photos with a 4x5 view camera that have sat unseen for 47 years
September 13, 2026
Every morning, a young Chinese-American photographer fresh out of Yale would set an alarm for well before sunrise, drive from New England into Manhattan, then haul a wooden box camera and a tripod out onto pavements that were, by design, as empty as he could find them. That was Baldwin Lee’s routine through the winters of 1975 to 1979.
Lee was using a 4×5 view camera, his first time…
