Modern cameras may take photographs in times measured in fractions of a second, but early photographs once took anywhere from 15 minutes to several hours to take a single photograph. Then, in 1840, an English chemist and pioneering photographer made a discovery that shortened the time required to take a photograph to a minute or less.
William Henry Fox Talbot was one of photography’s early…
“It carried more emotional weight than I had realized at the time,” says award-winning photographer about her “ordinary” black-and-white portrait
September 22, 2026
Sometimes we take a photo which, in the moment, doesn’t strike us as outstanding, only to later realize just how powerful the scene is. That’s the sentiment from Carly Goldsmith, who was recently crowned the winner of the “People” category at the 2026 Mono…
A good photobook will take you on a journey. A photobook that takes you on a journey that feels cinematic, that shows you reality from a different perspective, that makes you feel something subtly profound… well, that’s a great photobook.
And in my view, Elsebound…
A photo of singer Sam Ryder playing an impromptu gig in a railway carriage is the overall winner of the 12th annual Event Photography Awards.
Over 250 guests attended the ceremony at the Central Hall Westminster in London, UK, and were able to enjoy a display of around 140 shortlisted shots before and after the ceremony.
The Event Photography Awards (EPA) is a not-for-profit competition founded to…
It’s funny if you think about it. Those of us who were born in the last century like to think that digital technology, the web and social media has changed everything completely (and, invariably, made everything in the world worse).
But, every now and again, you…
When landscape photographer and YouTuber, Paulo Olivier Hanshing, was exploring the coast around the fishing community of Talcaruca in Chile, he captured an image that he refers to as “a happy accident.”
Now Hanshing’s dreamy shot, showcasing a Neotropic…
There’s a good news story to be told about a remote island in the South Atlantic right now, even though you wouldn’t think it from the news pages.
They’re currently focused on threats from Argentina’s president against oil companies drilling near the Falkland Islands, while Britain insists its military commitment to its overseas territory is unshakeable.
Tensions are…
I feel like I’ve been gut-punched. These emotional news photos prove the power of lines in storytelling
September 19, 2026
As I was browsing through the news this week, the photographs that immediately grabbed my attention and triggered an emotional response were the shots that tell a story in a single composition. Many of them used a longstanding photography tool: the power of…
Strange but true: one of the photographers who defined the look of London's Swinging Sixties was actually working 5,000 miles away
September 18, 2026
Picture London in the Swinging Sixties and you think of King’s Road boutiques, David Bailey, models in Soho coffee bars. Sam Haskins, whose work is about to go up for auction at Sloane Street Auctions, was one of the photographers whose work helped shape the visual…
Ian Berry, Magnum's Sharpeville Photographer, Dies at 92
September 17, 2026
The famed British photojournalist Ian Berry died last weekend, aged 92, following a short illness. His wife Kathie revealed on Instagram that he died peacefully, in the early hours, just as they were about to fly to the Marquesas Islands in French Polynesia.
His career reads like a highlights reel of 20th century history: Sharpeville, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Vietnam War…
