Photography

VSCO has announced the first 25 images of The Fifty, an initiative to display 50 images from 50 different professional photographers on billboards or large-format out-of-home placements in their home state. In these times of unprecedented uncertainty for photographers, the photography and social media platform wants to highlight the creativity and dedication from artists all over the…

If you don’t know much about fashion photography, you might assume it’s relatively straightforward stuff: dress a model, pose a model, shoot a model. A quick flick through the pages of a modern fashion magazine though, and you’ll be swiftly disabused of that notion. At the high end of the market, a contemporary fashion shoot is more like fine art, and there’s no finer…

Gordon Parks is one of the towering figures of 20th century American photography. Born in Kansas in 1912, he bought his first camera secondhand for $12.50, taught himself to use it, and worked his way from Farm Security Administration trainee to Life magazine’s first black staff photographer, a post he held for more than two decades. Known for capturing poverty, segregation and the civil…

Few British families have a history as rich, influential, and daring as the Throckmortons. Former aristocrats, the family once held strong political positions at the top of society and, in centuries gone by, even challenged the Tudor monarchy. Now, the current generation of Throckmortons are exhibiting historic portrait photographs of their ancestors at the family’s grandiose Tudor home…