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I feel like I’ve been gut-punched. These emotional news photos prove the power of lines in storytelling

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 lines. Photojournalists are tasked with capturing a scene as it unfolds, without manipulating the scene in person or with software. But one of…
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Ian Berry, Magnum's Sharpeville Photographer, Dies at 92

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…
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"It was almost ​​​​impossible to keep the camera steady. In the remote Almirantazgo Sound, the biting cold, ever-changing light and unpredictable wind forced me to readjust my stance and refocus after every blast of photos" says award-winning photographer

Wildlife photographerRodrigo González Pairoa faced challenges when capturing birds in Albatross Islet, Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica, Chile. Now his image of a Black-browed Albatross, shot with a full-frame DSLR that was released 14 years ago, was honored as the winner of the Birds Without Borders category in the 2026 Audubon Photography Awards. Pairoa recalls the situation, “It was…
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Taken from the last years of Imperial Germany, and through the Weimar Republic into the Nazi era, these rarely seen images by pioneering portrait photographer August Sander highlight just how wide his range was

If you shoot portraits for a living, August Sander is a name you should know. His decades-long People of the 20th Century, for one, is a landmark in the discipline’s history. An attempt to catalogue a cross-section of society by trade and social type, it set the…
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"Quality, color and reliability" – How this Scandinavian company has shaped the future of photography

When people think of the world’s most influential photography companies, the conversation often turns to Japan, Germany or the United States. But Scandinavia has quietly built a remarkable legacy in imaging – from camera systems and lighting technology to professional software and color science. For Capture One CEO, Rafael Orta, this connection is not accidental. He believes the…
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William Eggleston's photographs were once voted the most hated of the year – but this new retrospective proves just how wrong critics can be

Now 87, William Eggleston is known as the “Godfather of Color Photography” for helping establish it as a legitimate, high-art medium. But that was by no means an easy task, as a new exhibition in London, England, reminds us. William Eggleston: All That Goes Unnoticed, which runs at The Photographers’ Gallery from October to February, is a career-spanning look at the American…
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