The 2025 Oppo Photography Awards has crowned its global winners, spotlighting some of the most compelling mobile photography from around the world.
In its biggest year yet, the competition drew nearly 2 million submissions from 87 countries, making it the most expansive edition in the awards’ history. The winning works are currently being showcased at the awards’ global finale in Cairo, Egypt…
The tragic cost of wildlife photography: Rare and beautiful Galaxy frogs threatened by photo tourism
December 17, 2025
A striking photograph of the rare Galaxy frog (Melanobatrachus indicus) is drawing attention to the latest report from global conservation charity ZSL (Zoological Society of London).
The paper, published today (December 17 2025) in Herpetology Notes, highlights that a small…
Your photographs can inspire millions: Enter the Hasselblad Masters 2026 competition for free (shot on ANY camera, digital or film)
December 17, 2025
The Hasselblad Masters 2026 competition is officially open, inviting professional photographers worldwide to showcase their most creative, technically masterful and inspiring work.
Free to enter and open to submissions captured on any camera system, the competition offers a…
Vivian Maier: Street Photographer review: an insight into one of photography's greatest stories
December 17, 2025
Vivian Maier: Street Photographer, edited by John Maloof with a foreword by Geoff Dyer, stands as one of the most essential monographs of the past two decades; not only because of the photographs themselves, but because of the extraordinary story behind them.
Vivian Maier spent most of her life working as a nanny, photographing the streets of Chicago and New York with no intention of showing her…
Opening Record 2 feels less like picking up a photobook – although it is, without doubt, one of the best photography books on street photography – and more like stepping inside Daido Moriyama’s ongoing dialogue with the world. This volume brings together the images and…
The fast and frantic nature of street photography often requires you to think fast on your feet, or rather fingers. Whether it’s a moment that you want to flood the sensor with light to achieve a pin-sharp shot, or you want to slow the shutter down a little to inject a bit…
Sometimes the best shots happen when your subject takes matters out of your hands. One photographer discovered this truth first-hand while photographing a fishing spider at the water’s edge in Kollur, Karnataka in the south-west of India.
Kashyap Naresh Raval had set up his Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III with one thing in mind, but the spider had other ideas. “I was planning to just…
Shot with a Canon EOS R6 Mark II, this breathtaking panorama captures the profound stillness of Japan's countryside
December 15, 2025
In the misty dawn following heavy rain, photographer Megumi Murakami waited patiently at Lake Nakatsuna in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. As the morning light pierced the fog and the cherry blossoms emerged in full bloom, their perfect reflections on a glassy lake surface created…
"Canon's Crop Mode now means I don’t need to buy that $10,000 super-telephoto lens for my camera!"
December 15, 2025
The 1.6x Cropping/Aspect Ratio setting is available on every Canon EOS R full-frame mirrorless camera including the EOS R6, R6 Mark II and R6 Mark III, and the EOS R5 and R5 Mark II, and yet it’s hardly ever talked about. Which I think is nuts as it’s a brilliant setting…
Captured on an Indonesian night dive with a Nikon D800E, this remarkable image reveals a tiny universe of undersea life
December 15, 2025
In the pitch-black waters above Indonesia’s Lembeh Strait, photographer Massimo Giorgetta encountered something quite incredible. A tunicate salp – a transparent, barrel-shaped marine animal barely five centimeters across – had become a floating sanctuary for an extraordinary array of marine life.
Protected Lives was captured on 14 April 2023, during what divers call a blackwater dive.
