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Confessions of an eclipse photographer: shooting my first ring of fire eclipse and discovering that photographing from a Caribbean cruise ship is much harder than it looks!

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…
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The photographer who documented Britain's disability rights movement from the inside has finally been recognized, and his archive is free to use

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…
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Chris Killip spent months living in deindustrialised communities in North-East England, photographing some of the most intimate images of 1970s and '80s Britain – using a huge camera that was never built for the job

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…
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His neighbors “thought him mad to spend so many hours staring into a coffin.” James Clerk Maxwell wasn’t a photographer, but he created the world’s oldest color photo with an idea still used today

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…
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Sølve Sundsbø on Capturing India for Pirelli 2027

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…
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While 3 pairs of eyes captured India, completing Raghu Rai's work felt like "stepping into his gaze," explains Pirelli Calendar 2027 photographer Avani Rai

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…
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