Ask most photographers today what you need for unguarded, intimate documentary work and they’ll say something small, quiet and fast. A rangefinder, a compact, anything you can raise and lower before a subject has time to arrange their face.
To say that Chris Killip went in a different direction would be something of an understatement. He mainly used a large-format field camera on a tripod…
Many of the biggest achievements in photography’s history came from photographers and chemists, but the invention of color photographs wasn’t initiated by a photographer at all but a physicist obsessed with the science of colors.
James Clerk Maxwell was a mid-1800s…
Luminous "ghost net" wins prestigious photography award while shedding light on growing threat to mangrove swamps
July 27, 2026
This image of a luminous fishing net engulfing a mangrove in the dead of night is more than just an eerie yet interesting composition; it sheds light on the growing problem of “ghost gear,” discarded fishing equipment that’s polluting marine ecosystems and threatening…
Sølve Sundsbø on Capturing India for Pirelli 2027
July 27, 2026
Internationally established photographer Sølve Sundsbø has photographed some of fashion’s biggest names, but when it came to the Pirelli Calendar 2027, he believed one photographer alone couldn’t tell India’s story.
Having shot last year’s Pirelli Calendar, Sølve Sundsbø approached the 2027 edition with a different mindset. He embraced a collaboration with Indian…
Photographer Avani Rai knows the weight of following in a legendary photographer’s footsteps. As the daughter of Indian photographer master Raghu Rai, who died in April, she faced the unique challenge of completing her father’s work for the Pirelli Calendar 2027…
Some portfolios document a moment. Box of Pin-Ups, you might say, built one. When the British photographer David Bailey released a boxed set of 36 portraits in 1965, he wasn’t just shooting the people who mattered in London (Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Michael Caine, the…
In 2025, 16-year-old photographer Anwen from South Wales captured Golden Hour, a striking image of a puffin bathed in warm evening light with a beak full of sand eels. The photo won The Week Junior Science+Nature Scavenger Hunt Photo Contest, earning her Canon camera equipment and a coveted spot on the magazine’s front cover.
“I had been dreaming of a photo of a puffin during golden…
The Spanish national football team’s well-deserved second FIFA World Cup victory has been somewhat overshadowed by the Argentinian team’s conduct before and after the final whistle, drawing criticism regarding the defending champions’ behaviour. But another…
Bob Carlos Clarke spent a career being filed under a single word: provocative. That’s accurate in one sense, but it’s also the kind of shorthand that lets people skip past the actual work. As a new retrospective opens in London, it’s a good opportunity to…
More than mountains: the human story of Chilean Patagonia told through these award-winning photos
July 22, 2026
Chilean Patagonia, an area famed for its towering granite peaks, crystalline glaciers, and vast, rugged wilderness so beautiful it almost seems like the picture-perfect South American region was crafted by an artist.
Yet two of the most highly commended images from this year’s Patagonia Photo Contest shed light on something much more personal than these iconic vistas.
Timothy Dhalleine’s…
