Photography

A photography show with ‘Photokina’ is coming back to Cologne starting next year, but I really don’t think it’s going to be like the mind-boggling international melting pot that I remember from years gone by. Photokina brings back fond memories for me and the whole of the photography industry that is both old enough to remember it and wasn’t too intoxicated at the…

When Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson and others set up a photographic co-operative back in 1947, the legend goes that they named it after the oversized champagne bottles they liked to celebrate with. Nearly 80 years on, Magnum has returned to its roots, in a way. Some of its photographers, including Mark Power, Emin Özmen, Rafał Milach, Bieke Depoorter and Cristina García Rodero, have been…

Think Britain in the 1930s and, if you’ve been watching a lot of History Channel documentaries, you’ll probably picture things like hunger marches, unemployment lines and the gathering shadow of war in Europe. All of which, of course, was very important. But as a new photo book highlights, there was a lot more to the decade than that. Historian Steven Brindle and writer Maureen Hill…

I was reading a new study on the growth of analog tech when I read a phrase that I had to stop and puzzle over: Young people are “replacing endless scrolling with ‘granny hobbies’ like crocheting and photography.” Wait, apparently photography is a granny hobby? The study I was reading isn’t even the only one that lists photography among so-called “granny hobbies.” I have, of course…