In 1936, Dorothea Lange approached Florence Owens Thompson – a 32-year-old sheltering with her children at a California pea-pickers’ camp – and took one of the most recognizable photographs in history.
Migrant Mother portrays her with two children pressed against her shoulders, staring into the middle distance with an expression that seems to contain the entire weight of the Great…
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…
I recently came across Life At The Edge, a photobook on the rugged Caithness coastline in northeastern Scotland, by local resident Ken Crossan.
After delving a little deeper into his work, I found out that Ken’s photos, which typically depict the flora and fauna of his…
The portrait is deceptively simple. Charli xcx leans back against a pale wall in a white crop top and dark jeans, her voluminous dark hair caught mid-movement, her gaze directed downward and slightly away from the camera. There’s no performance, no direct address, no obvious glamour. Just an intimacy and a slight vulnerability; the feeling of catching someone in a private moment rather than a…
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 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 went in a different direction would be something of an understatement. He mainly used a large-format field camera on a tripod, the…
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…
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 Calendar, Sølve Sundsbø approached the 2027 edition with a different mindset. He embraced a collaboration with Indian photography legend…
