Photography

I’ve been taking photos as long as I can remember, and in my case, that’s a very long time. I’ve been lucky enough to travel to far-flung places around the world, and even in countries where you might imagine secrecy was very high on the agenda, I never used to have a problem taking snapshots of life unfolding on city streets and around town. But lately, even in my home town of Bath in…

A single split second, a perfectly placed shadow, a tennis ball frozen at the exact moment of impact – all captured within one of the most demanding genres in photography, where fractions of a second can make or break the shot. That extraordinary convergence has just been crowned Overall Winner of the World Sports Photography Awards 2026, the largest global competition dedicated exclusively to…

A young girl sits perfectly still, her skin painted a vivid blue, as careful hands apply the final touches of paint to her forehead. This is not theater makeup or casual dress-up; this is transformation in its most sacred form. Indranil Sengupta‘s image Make Up, part of his series Bohurupi, has earned him a Merit Award in AAP Magazine’s #53: Travels competition. It documents a…

Milan is a city unlike any other, and flipping through Scott Schuman’s The Sartorialist. Milano, I feel as though I’m walking its streets alongside him. His new photography book, published by Taschen, is a love letter to the city; its architecture, its rhythm, its elegance, and to the people who inhabit it with effortless style. As The Satorialist, Schuman was one of the first to popularize…