You’ve seen it a thousand times. Eleven ironworkers, sat side by side on a steel girder, eating their lunch 840 feet above Manhattan, the city spread out like a carpet below them. Lunch on a Beam (also known as Lunch Atop a Skyscraper) is one of the most reproduced photographs in history. It hangs in college dorms and union halls, corner pubs and corner offices. It’s been parodied, recreated…
Earlier this year I wrote about the development of a rather unusual camera accessory claiming to be the world’s first light-meter integrated watch and from today, Increment Labs’ LMW-V1: Light Meter Watch Kickstarter is officially live. Billed as “the first…
Bad weather nearly prevented the shot entirely – storms, snowfall, strong winds, and cloud cover repeatedly blocked access to the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma, home to the Gran Telescopio Canarias.
But on one brief, clear night, award-winning photographer…
One of the least discussed truths in photography is also one of the most useful. Most photographs are not very good. Not yours. Not mine. Not even those made by photographers whose work hangs in fancy galleries or graces the pages of coffee-table books. The difference is not that successful photographers avoid failure. It is that they accept it, learn from it, and build their photographic practice…
Sometimes the quest to perfect a photographic technique can become a consuming passion that drives the quest for perfection. Tamara Dean’s has already achieved great things with her various series of underwater photographs, but this is an environment that is often…
There are camera fairs, and then there’s Bièvres. Now in its 62nd year, the Foire Internationale de la Photo at Bièvres, France, is the kind of event that serious photographers put in their calendars every January, but might not tell too many people about. Word gets…
The Royal Photographic Society’s International Photography Exhibition has been running since 1854. That’s longer than the Eiffel Tower has existed, longer than the internal combustion engine, longer than the telephone. In 172 years, it’s seen photography move from wet collodion glass plates to AI-assisted compositing… and it’s still finding new work worth showing.
This year’s 167th…
There’s a particular satisfaction in seeing a photographer’s contact sheets, the frames they hesitated over, the shots they almost used, the alternatives that never made the cut. Most of us, sadly, will never get that access. For the complete archive of one of Dorothea…
Los Angeles-based toy photographer Mitchel Wu stages action figures like characters in a film crew with a sense of humor. In his world, General Grievous might be enjoying a few beers at a backyard barbecue while Stormtroopers take over the grill, and Darth Vader’s idea of…
Britain in full color: why photographer Sophie Green refuses to make her subjects look grey
May 4, 2026
There’s a quote in the press release for Sophie Green’s forthcoming exhibition that will resonate with any photographer who’s been told their work is a bit much. A friend, she recalls, once described her aesthetic as looking like “a kid who ate loads of Skittles and vomited them back up”. Her response: “It’s the best compliment I’ve ever received.”
That chromatic fearlessness is…
