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Rare image of vanishing century-old technique celebrated in photography contest – captured with an 8-year-old DSLR

This striking image by French photographer Guillaume Petermann just received Merit recognition in AAP Magazine #53: Travels. Captured on Lake Manchar in Sindh Province, Pakistan, the photograph documents one of the world’s most extraordinary and endangered fishing traditions. This rare tradition highlights a vanishing way of life between humans and nature, a bond that has endured for…
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"This was the first jaguar I'd ever seen, but I wasn't there to photograph one", admits HIPA 2025 category winner Karine Aigner

Karine Aigner’s photograph of an elusive jaguar in Ecuador saw her win the General – Color category in the fourteenth season of HIPA (the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award), themed ‘Power’. With a prize pot of US$1 million [£739,550/AU$1,490,000] HIPA is the world’s richest photography competition so its category winners are able…
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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency: why Nan Goldin's flash-lit photo essay on intimacy still resonates in 2026

When Nan Goldin shot the photographs that would be published in 1970s as The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, she didn’t really know what she was doing with light. As she told the Guardian years later, “That series is stark. It’s all flash-lit. I honestly didn’t know about natural light then and how it affected the color of the skin because I never went out in…
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This is the camera I almost bought in 2025 (but didn’t)

It’s only natural for us photographers to fantasize about upgrading to that new shiny piece of camera kit, with all the latest bells and whistles, that is inevitably way out of budget. As somebody who loves street photography, I’ve been searching for what seems like forever to find the best compact camera for those impromptu moments. Whether I’m popping out to the shops, meeting friends in…
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