Photography

Perhaps more than any other variable, including your camera and lens, lighting can make or break an image. And while natural light is all well and good, for truly creative photography and videography you simply need supplemental illumination. I’ve used a lot of lights over the years, both for commercial shoots and teaching lighting to photographers. But the best, most adaptable light…

What looks like birds soaring across a blazing sun is a multi-exposure moment full of unexpected elements and optical surprises – a spontaneous vision captured by Norwegian photographer Åsmund Keilen that earned him the prestigious title of Nature Photographer of the Year 2025. And the story behind this mesmerizing shot is anything but what you’d expect. The competition, organized by…

Many photographers build their career by finding a niche and staying in it. One, though, has spent five decades systematically ignoring this advice. And the results, collected in TASCHEN’s new limited-edition monograph Albert Watson: KAOS, make a compelling argument that specialization might be overrated. The book opens with Albert Watson’s breakthrough: a 1973 portrait of Alfred…

The winners of the Down’s Syndrome Association’s international photographic competition have been announced. They come from the UK, France, Singapore and Australia and were unveiled at a ceremony at the Langdon Down Center in London, England, earlier this month. The My Perspective competition received a record-breaking 252 entries this year, from countries around the world including…