Photography

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…

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…

When the fashion and portrait photographer Richard Avedon (1923-2004) drove into the American West in 1979, he left behind the controlled perfection of his fashion work and the glamour of celebrity portraiture. What he found would produce one of the most studied portrait series in photographic history. Now, as global art network Gagosian prepares to exhibit rare prints from In the American West at…

Nothing quite dampens my excitement over an aurora forecast quite like an overcast sky. Perhaps that’s why when I spotted photographer Ralf Rohner’s astrophotography, I was so mesmerized. See, Rohner is both a photographer and a pilot – and he captures award-winning images from above the clouds. Rohner (@skypointer2000) has worked as a commercial pilot with Swissair and Swiss for more than…