Every photographer who lands in Havana knows the standard shooting checklist. A 1957 Chevy Bel Air against peeling pastel paint. A cigar-smoking abuela on a wrought-iron balcony. The Malecón promenade at golden hour. And the thing is, you’re probably going to get a nice picture. It’ll be, though, a picture that’s been taken roughly nine million times already.
David Saxe went…
There’s a photograph of Vivienne Westwood above that I absolutely love. Shot by Jillian Edelstein, it shows the late fashion designer in close-up: flame-orange hair wild against a warm brown background, two small silver horns tucked into her curls, her expression…
Photographer Robert Canis spent 30 years shooting one nature reserve: here's what that patience can teach the rest of us
August 4, 2026
Somewhere in the churn of camera forums and social feeds, there’s an unspoken belief that a landscape photographer’s worth is measured in air miles. New country, new light, new content – the algorithm rewards novelty, and novelty rewards the photographer…
As a photographer, creating an image that has never been made before is a career-defining moment. For Gonzalo Javier Santile, Valle de la Luna, Universo Triasico Ischigualasto represents exactly that: the first photograph showing a complete Milky Way Arch above Parque Provincial Ischigualasto, known as Valle de la Luna, in San Juan, Argentina.
The landscape is one of the Earth’s most…
The 1965 Selma photograph with no faces in it: why James Karales' camera turned away from the hero shot and focused on the sky
August 4, 2026
Scroll through the coverage of the historic 1965 Selma to Montgomery civil rightsmarch and you’ll find plenty of close, urgent pictures. Clenched jaws. Raised placards. Martin Luther King mid-stride at the front of the crowd. James Karales’ contribution to that…
As a professional photographer, I’ve seen a lot of stunning photographs – but there’s one image in particular that stopped me in my tracks this week: a “fire-breathing dragon of clouds.”
What keeps drawing me back to Maximilien Lamy’s photograph taken along the…
Robert Doisneau (1912-1994), the iconic 20th century French street photographer, is best known for his famous humanist approach to documenting everyday Parisian moments.
In later years, though, he’s arguably become just as well known for something he said to Australian photographer and photography historian Peter Adams in 1987.
Adams was interviewing Doisneau as part of a monumental 39-year…
Astrophotography in August 2026: a solar eclipse and the Perseid meteor shower headline a packed month for stargazers
August 3, 2026
August 2026 is one of the most event-packed months of the year for astrophotographers — and perhaps the busiest for years. On August 12, it not only delivers a rare total solar eclipse across parts of the Northern Hemisphere, but also a partial solar eclipse that’s deep…
In 1936, Dorothea Lange approached Florence Owens Thompson – a 32-year-old sheltering with her children at a California pea-pickers’ camp – and took one of the most recognizable photographs in history.
Migrant Mother portrays her with two children pressed against…
I have photographed solar eclipses seven times over the last 47 years, and in the first part of this series I described my first efforts in the pre-internet era – and the hard lessons that you learn when chasing the shadow of an eclipse. The most important one is that even with the best planning, you can never to be certain to avoid clouds obliterating your view!
In this second installment, we…
