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Annie Leibovitz launched a new prize for emerging photographers, and it's already producing remarkable work

May 13, 2026
If you haven’t heard of the Saltzman-Leibovitz Photography Prize yet, now’s the time to pay attention. Launched in 2025 by New York photographer and philanthropist Lisa Saltzman, through the Saltzman Family Foundation, and created in collaboration with Annie Leibovitz, it’s explicitly designed to spotlight emerging female photographers at a pivotal point in their careers. It comes with real…
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Cheat sheet: Lightroom Classic's masking tools explained

May 11, 2026
Lightroom Classic’s masking tools use a combination of AI subject recognition and regular brush and gradient tools to offer huge scope for local adjustments and enhancements. But you can get even more control by using masks in combination – in other words, with ‘sub-masks’. There are many situations where this can be useful, but our sample image shows a very common one – where you want…
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When I first saw this black-and-white photography series, I started crying. An “achingly beautiful” series of life and death has just won a Pulitzer

May 8, 2026
Photographs have power – and I was reminded of just how much emotion an image can carry when one of the newest feature photo series to win a Pulitzer instantly brought tears to my eyes. A series of black-and-white photographs by Jahi Chikwendiu, a former The Washington Post photographer, following a young couple welcoming their first child as the father faced terminal cancer, has won a 2026…
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The Untold Story Behind Launch on a Beam Photo

May 7, 2026
You’ve seen it a thousand times. Eleven ironworkers, sat side by side on a steel girder, eating their lunch 840 feet above Manhattan, the city spread out like a carpet below them. Lunch on a Beam (also known as Lunch Atop a Skyscraper) is one of the most reproduced photographs in history. It hangs in college dorms and union halls, corner pubs and corner offices. It’s been parodied, recreated…
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