When the American fine art photographer Lara Porzak’s mother survived a massive stroke, her memory was badly affected.
As anyone with a relative who suffers memory problems will know, it helps enormously if they can be surrounded by familiar things. So Porzak did what came naturally.
As she recounts in her new book, The Chemistry of Memory: “I taped pictures of our loved ones to the walls…
Disability is a lived experience and, for those of us without one, photography has the power to help tell this story
November 10, 2026
While we may all advocate for diversity, equality and inclusion, how can those of us without a disability truly understand what it is like for those who live with one? We need to listen to their stories, struggles and tribulations.
Photography is arguably one of the greatest…
These three LA photographers reshaped how celebrity portraits were taken. Now an exhibition asks: Did this constitute a new art movement?
November 10, 2026
Jack Nicholson grins through a magnifying glass. Warhol sits behind dark glasses, white hair lit like a halo. A teenage Leonardo DiCaprio emits an intense glare. Cyndi Lauper poses beneath a huge headdress that’s dripping with crystals.
These are some of the images in…
Captured by a drone camera, this kayaker's death-defying plunge off a glacier will have your heart in your mouth
November 9, 2026
It might take a moment for you to notice the kayaker in the picture above. What your eye will focus on first will be a vast wall of blue-white ice, running the full width of the frame, with a flat white sky above it and dark, churning water below.
Eventually, though, you’ll spot a tiny figure in a boat tipped steeply downward, plummeting down a waterfall that streams through a notch in the…
"I wanted to kill that image": Why a Magnum photographer tore up her picture of a girl in a headscarf
November 9, 2026
A girl in a dark headscarf lifts a red rose to her face and looks straight into the lens. Two jagged tears run from the top of the picture to the bottom, and strips of tape hold the print together.
The photo was taken by Iranian photojournalist and Magnum member, Newsha…
Can compact, lightweight camera gear be any good at wildlife photography? I took a 2.5lb / 1kg Sony kit to a wildlife refuge
November 9, 2026
I prefer wildlife photography spent hiking rather than sitting in a blind. The problem is that wildlife camera gear is often the heaviest – and priciest. Inspired by the launch of the latest bridge camera, the Sony RX10 V, I wanted to see if it was possible to build a…
Forced perspective is a camera trick that makes small things appear much larger or smaller than they really are. Filmmaker Peter Jackson didn’t magically make Elijah Wood and his friends smaller in The Lord of the Rings; he just shot it so they appeared smaller (or so that Gandalf looked bigger).
You can use the same idea to make a toy sports car appear as if it’s the real thing, like one…
You’re sitting in a cabin in Svalbard, the Norwegian Arctic archipelago that’s one of the remotest places on Earth. An oil lamp glows on the wall. You look up, only to find a polar bear staring straight back at you through the open window.
Most of us would be…
From a dramatic whale rescue to artfully arranged birds, these are the best 7 wildlife photographs this week
November 8, 2026
Heading out on a wildlife photography hike is my favorite way to unplug – but wildlife photography from around the world enables me to enjoy the animals that I would otherwise not see.
This week, I’ve spotted stunning wildlife photographs ranging from a rescued whale to…
From Amish softball to cinematic self-portraits: VSCO reveals the final batch of billboard-bound images in its photo contest
November 7, 2026
VSCO has announced the final twenty-five images selected for The Fifty – an ongoing celebration of photography across the US, whereby selected images are displayed on billboards or large-format public displays in their creators’ home states.
The open call for images earlier this year received over 13,500 entries, with VSCO unveiling the first 25 selected shots in September and billboard…
