Photography

If you don’t know much about fashion photography, you might assume it’s relatively straightforward stuff: dress a model, pose a model, shoot a model. A quick flick through the pages of a modern fashion magazine though, and you’ll be swiftly disabused of that notion. At the high end of the market, a contemporary fashion shoot is more like fine art, and there’s no finer…

Gordon Parks is one of the towering figures of 20th century American photography. Born in Kansas in 1912, he bought his first camera secondhand for $12.50, taught himself to use it, and worked his way from Farm Security Administration trainee to Life magazine’s first black staff photographer, a post he held for more than two decades. Known for capturing poverty, segregation and the civil…

Few British families have a history as rich, influential, and daring as the Throckmortons. Former aristocrats, the family once held strong political positions at the top of society and, in centuries gone by, even challenged the Tudor monarchy. Now, the current generation of Throckmortons are exhibiting historic portrait photographs of their ancestors at the family’s grandiose Tudor home…

When it comes to music photography, famous artists tend to be the center of attention. But, at the Abbey Road Music Photography Awards 2026, it was the fans who stole the show. Today, the annual global music photography competition revealed its winners for the 2026 edition, among them a series of high-octane frames of fanatic fans capturing the charged energy of the moments. Perhaps the most…