There’s a photograph in Keith Armstrong’s newly discovered archive that stops you in your tracks. A man in a wheelchair grins defiantly, surrounded by Metropolitan Police officers. A red London bus looms behind him, its destination board reading Trafalgar Square. It’s the kind of image that could have run on the front page of a national newspaper.
Actually though, it…
The Photography & Video Show is heading back to London for 2027 – returning to the London ExCel exhibition center for four days from Saturday, March 13 to Tuesday, March 16. The show will be open from 10:00 to 17:00 every day.
The Photography & Video Show is the…
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…
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 physicist credited for early work in electromagnetism, but one of Maxwell’s key interests was color. Maxwell’s research…
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…
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 – a project that became both a creative collaboration and a personal journey.
Known for her distinctive approach to…
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…
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 incident has dominated headlines: footage of US President Donald Trump appearing to overstay his welcome during the sacred lifting…
