Are you familiar with Jeff Wall? If not, let me enlighten you. For over 40 years, the Canadian photographic artist has been creating what’s known as ‘staged documentary’: meticulously constructed photographs that look like candid captures of everyday life, but are actually as choreographed as a West End show.
His latest exhibition, Jeff Wall: Photographs, has just opened at Gallerie…
Exploring the microscopic world: Nikon Small World announces 51st annual photomicrography winners
October 17, 2025
The winners of the 51st annual Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition have been announced, celebrating over five decades of excellence in microscopy and digital imaging.
First place was awarded to China’s Zhang You for his striking image of a rice weevil…
The newly-launched Ricoh GR IV has been one of the most anticipated compact cameras of 2025 – in Japan, it has overtaken mirrorless rivals in sales, and now its cult yet refined design has been recognized with the 2025 Good Design Award, presented by the Japan Institute…
This new Diane Arbus photo exhibition makes me wonder: what does it means to truly look at someone?
October 17, 2025
Right now, Berlin’s Gropius Bau is hosting the largest Diane Arbus exhibition ever held. Titled Diane Arbus: Konstellationen, it features 454 prints, many of them never displayed before, in a show that asks us to confront what it really means to look… and be looked at.
From children and circus performers to suburban families and drag queens, Arbus’s portraits don’t just capture a…
These amazing images showcase contemporary photography at its finest – and just won big at BIFA 2025
October 16, 2025
The winners of the Budapest International Foto Awards 2025 (BIFA) have just been announced, and this year’s selection is as visually striking as it is emotionally powerful.
From abstract visual poetry and explorations of identity, to photographs that bring us…
When photographer Alejandro Cegarra set out for the US-Mexico border in 2018, he wanted to capture the struggles of migrants in a way that highlighted universally human emotions. After nearly seven years and 35,000 photographs, Cegarra’s The Two Walls series has earned the…
I'm not a landscape photographer, but I tried using my phone for landscape photography – and I’m impressed!
October 16, 2025
I’m not a landscape photographer. I’ve taken photographs of landscapes for assignments when they fit a story, but a traditional landscape photographer I am not.
I’ve recently come to realize that I don’t have the patience for what most people consider ‘landscape photography’; tripods, filters and waiting for the perfect light. I shoot landscapes much like street photography…
I’ve never been one for slang – my 7th grader and I both looked at each other with equal looks of horror when his teacher said that she used AI to rewrite the syllabus in Gen Z slang. But there is an expression that I can 100% get behind, particularly as a photographer…
Wildlife Photographer of the Year winner took 10 years to capture one of rarest species on the planet
October 15, 2025
The winners of the sixty-first Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition have been revealed, offering us a vivid glimpse into the wild from every corner of the planet.
INSPIRED?
Submissions for the sixty-second Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition will open…
What is pinhole photography? Here's how to shoot without a lens!
October 15, 2025
Lenses – they’re the heart of every photographer’s toolkit, right? But what if you stripped them away completely? The art of capturing images without a lens has been enchanting photographers for centuries and is known as pinhole photography.
In our era of hyper-advanced cameras chasing technical perfection, flawless and razor-sharp images flood our feeds. But sometimes, perfection…