Chihiro Kihara Was Rejected by a Temple, So She Walked a 5,600m Pilgrimage to Find Out What Faith Really Means
The temple said no, so the mountain answered. This interview is about Chihiro Kihara and her book Wonderful Circuit, and why a rejection pushed her into a real pilgrimage at extreme altitude. Photography Book Spotlight
Photography Doesn’t Distort Reality. Your Perception Does. Uetsugu Kotomi Explains What That Changes About Seeing
Uetsugu Kotomi photographs the moment before recognition. Her project From Vision to Perception is about that split second when your eyes see details, but your brain still cannot decide what it is. Interviews
How Agnese Strode Uses Fragmentation and Refusal to Break the Male Gaze
Fashion can be intimate without being consumed. This article is an interview with photographer Agnese Strode about her book Body and Frame. Photography Book Spotlight
Richard Renaldi Photographed Fast Food in 2019 After Fight for $15 Took Off. Here’s What He Saw in the Landscape
If you eat fast food, you’re already in this story. Richard Renaldi went to fast food places and photographed the workers and the spaces around them. Photography Book Spotlight
Jeffrey Marqusee Returned to Mustang at 60 to Finish a Trek He Started at 25 - the Photos Became a Book About Tibetan Buddhism
At 25, he started a trek. At 60, he returned. Jeffrey Marqusee went back to Mustang in Nepal to finish what he had left unfinished. Photography Book Spotlight
Mark Power’s FASHION: How 27 Years of Commissioned Work Became One Photography book
Can commissioned photography still feel brutally honest? This article is about Mark Power and his book FASHION. Photography Book Spotlight
“Colour Is Language”: What Zak van Biljon’s Pink Alps Say That Green Never Could
Infrared turns the Alps into a new color vocabulary. It takes a place everyone thinks they know and makes it strange again. Photography Book Spotlight
The Places You Ignore Are Holding Your Neighborhood Together: Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani on Photographing “Placework”
Everyday places quietly hold our neighbourhoods together. If you live in a city, care about community, or photograph street life, this is for you. Photography Book Spotlight
After Losing 90% Of His Life’s Work, KAI Fusayoshi Had To Decide What Really Matters In Photography
He lost 2 million negatives overnight. In 2015, a fire destroyed almost 90 percent of KAI Fusayoshi’s life’s work in Kyoto. Photography Book Spotlight
The Digital Mask: Exploring the Creative Frontier of Multi-Face Swapping in Videography
For over a century, the group portrait has been a staple of the photographic medium. Advertorial
Think Street Photography Is About Luck? Melissa O’Shaughnessy Explains Why It’s Actually About Failure, Persistence, And The “Gift” You Don’t See Coming
Street photography isn’t luck. It’s relentless failure. If you have ever walked the street with a camera and felt shy, frustrated, or invisible, this conversation is for you. Photography Book Spotlight
I Discard Most of My Images: Huntington Witherill on Failure, Discipline, and Photo Synthesis
Experience doesn’t reduce failure. It increases it. Huntington Witherill says this after more than fifty years in photography.Photography Book Spotlight
I took a wrong turn in 2017. Nine years later, It became my most important work: The HOOK.
This book began with being completely lost. Lisa Cutler took a wrong turn in Brooklyn and decided not to correct it. Photography Book Spotlight
ONE: Hallway - Roy DeCarava by Sean Kernan
This installment turns to Roy DeCarava’s Hallway, a picture that feels endlessly engaging and somehow purely photographic, even when you cannot explain why. Photography Book Spotlight
She Lived Near This River for 15 Years. Then She Accidentally Discovered a 600-Year-Old Fishing Tradition Hidden in Plain Sight
A photographer accidentally uncovered a 600-year-old fishing tradition. It happened close to her home, in a place she thought she already knew. Picture Story
Catching the Tide: How Colin McPherson Earned “Free Reign” to Photograph a Disappearing Trade
You cannot fake trust in a long-term project. Colin McPherson spent 30 years with Scotland’s salmon net fishermen. He kept returning to the same shores until the men gave him free reign. Photography Book Spotlight
From Desert Stars to Downtown Shadows: How Moving Across Los Angeles Shaped David Cruz‘s Semiotic Nights
At night, Los Angeles reveals a second identity. The streets become quieter, the light becomes harder, and familiar places feel uncertain. Picture Story
From News Photography to Long Exposures: How Shintaro Sato Trained His Eye to Find Beauty in Pure Function
Can discipline from news photography reshape how you see cities? This article is about how news photography trains the eye before it trains expression. Photography Book Spotlight