Photography

Riccardo Ghilardi recently photographed 42 of cinema’s biggest names – including Martin Scorsese, Tim Burton, Sharon Stone, Willem Dafoe and Zoe Saldana – inside Italy’s National Museum of Cinema in Turin. And the resulting exhibition, opening this week at Gallerie d’Italia, demonstrates just what happens when you treat your subject as a creative partner, not a passive…

Honestly? When I first saw that a Chinatown passport photo had gone viral with over a million views, I laughed. A passport photo. The same bureaucratic mugshot we’ve all learned to dread. That went viral because it looked good? But then I looked at it properly. And I got it. Bolton Brown‘s portrait from Eliz Digital isn’t extraordinary because it’s fancy. There’s no…

Hasselblad has claimed a prestigious honor at the DGP Imaging Awards. Its success in combining cutting-edge technology with enhanced usability was recognized with the Technology Award, highlighting the Hasselblad X2D II 100C as one of the best medium format cameras of 2025. The DGP Imaging Awards are Japan’s leading competition for digital imaging excellence, judged by a panel of…

Whatever the weather! On a particular morning recently, the forecast for Clevedon said full-on sunshine from around midday until sunset. So I planned an afternoon visit to capture the iconic Victorian pier, which poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman, once said is: “the most beautiful pier in England.” However, such is the changeable nature of weather, during the day it remained totally overcast…