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Photographing David Bowie: "He'd built up all the evidence. So then I had to destroy them…"

Few musicians shaped their visual identity as carefully as David Bowie. From Ziggy Stardust to Aladdin Sane, his collaborations with photographers helped create some of the most iconic images in rock history. So when six eminent photographers got together at the atmospheric Lightroom centre in London, England, to talk about their photos of Bowie to rock journalist Miranda Sawyer, it made for a…
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"An old woman pours herself tea - but it's so much more than just that. The expression on her crevassed face is beautiful, it moved me to tears" – founder of world's biggest food photography awards on top prize-winning photo

The World Food Photography Awards sponsored by Tenderstem® Bimi® Broccolini has revealed the competition’s overall winner – a prestigious honor going to British video journalist/photographer Jo Kearney for an image showing a quiet moment of a woman eating in the…
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These award-winning photos pull on all the heartstrings in the most nostalgic way

The winners of the OpenWalls Spotlight Awards 2026 have been announced, and this year’s champion images hit you straight in the feels, evoking all kinds of nostalgia and longing for friends and family, but also for years gone by. Themed around homecoming, this year’s edition of the competition – which is organized by the British Journal of Photography – saw an impressive, deeply…
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Ishiuchi Miyako photographs completely different things, yet her 50 years of work all looks unmistakably hers

Ishiuchi Miyako photographs abandoned buildings. She photographs scars on human skin. She photographs old Kimono fabric. She photographs lipstick. She photographs her own water-damaged prints. But there’s something that connects all her photography. Something that makes it unmistakably hers. It’s not what she’s photographing; it’s how she photographs. She has an eye for how time leaves…
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Humans are going to the Moon. Cameras and massive seven-foot drones will help them arrive safely

NASA is building a base on the Moon – and cameras will be an integral part of getting humans there safely. On Tuesday, May 26, NASA announced a three-phase plan across the next decade to build a permanent base on the Moon. The plan is a massive $20 billion undertaking to build a base near the Moon’s south pole that eventually plans to send humans to the Moon at least every six months. The…
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