Photography

Sometimes, even the most influential photographers get lost to time – and William Constable was certainly one of them. Even though the late artist was, for a time, the go-to photographer for British royalty, and pioneered commercial portraiture, his contributions to our beloved craft have never truly received the widespread recognition they deserve. That was until a few days ago when the…

I’ve long been awed by photographs of the night sky, but one of the latest images to stop me in my tracks isn’t a “photograph” at all. A radio telescope in Australia has built the largest magnetic map of the universe yet, a colorful image five times larger than all the previous radio mapping efforts combined. The data comes from Australia’s national space agency CSIRO and the SKA…

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…

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…