When landscape photographer and YouTuber, Paulo Olivier Hanshing, was exploring the coast around the fishing community of Talcaruca in Chile, he captured an image that he refers to as “a happy accident.”
Now Hanshing’s dreamy shot, showcasing a Neotropic Cormorant perching on the rock in atmospheric sunlight, has received an Honorable Mention in the 2026 Audubon Photography…
There’s a good news story to be told about a remote island in the South Atlantic right now, even though you wouldn’t think it from the news pages.
They’re currently focused on threats from Argentina’s president against oil companies drilling near the…
I feel like I’ve been gut-punched. These emotional news photos prove the power of lines in storytelling
September 19, 2026
As I was browsing through the news this week, the photographs that immediately grabbed my attention and triggered an emotional response were the shots that tell a story in a single composition. Many of them used a longstanding photography tool: the power of…
Strange but true: one of the photographers who defined the look of London's Swinging Sixties was actually working 5,000 miles away
September 18, 2026
Picture London in the Swinging Sixties and you think of King’s Road boutiques, David Bailey, models in Soho coffee bars. Sam Haskins, whose work is about to go up for auction at Sloane Street Auctions, was one of the photographers whose work helped shape the visual language of the 1960s. So it’s surprising to learn that at the time, he wasn’t anywhere near any of it.
In fact, he…
Ian Berry, Magnum's Sharpeville Photographer, Dies at 92
September 17, 2026
The famed British photojournalist Ian Berry died last weekend, aged 92, following a short illness. His wife Kathie revealed on Instagram that he died peacefully, in the early hours, just as they were about to fly to the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia.
His career reads…
Wildlife photographerRodrigo González Pairoa faced challenges when capturing birds in Albatross Islet, Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica, Chile. Now his image of a Black-browed Albatross, shot with a full-frame DSLR that was released 14 years ago, was honored as the winner…
If you shoot portraits for a living, August Sander is a name you should know. His decades-long People of the 20th Century, for one, is a landmark in the discipline’s history.
An attempt to catalogue a cross-section of society by trade and social type, it set the template that Diane Arbus, Bernd and Hilla Becher, and ultimately portraiture in general would build from.
If, for instance…
How to plan and where to go for the "eclipse of the century" – the 2027 total solar eclipse
September 15, 2026
The total solar eclipse on August 02 2027 will bring 6 minutes and 22 seconds of totality – the longest until 2114 – to Luxor, the temple-strewn capital of ancient Egypt. But while media attention will focus on Luxor and the Nile, photographers actually have thousands of…
"Quality, color and reliability" – How this Scandinavian company has shaped the future of photography
September 14, 2026
When people think of the world’s most influential photography companies, the conversation often turns to Japan, Germany or the United States.
But Scandinavia has quietly built a remarkable legacy in imaging – from camera systems and lighting technology to…
Alina Marazzi’s The Girl with the Leica opened at the Venice Film Festial this month, and most of the coverage so far has focused on what it gets right and wrong as a biopic.
The mannered performances, the jazz-age dance numbers, the tangle of lovers and émigré friends circling Emilia Schüle’s Gerda Taro; all good things for a film reviewer to explore.
But as a writer for Digital…
