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Interviews, photobooks and stories behind photographs.
Project Interviews Photo Book Spotlight Photo Essays Story Behind the Photo Photography, Reconsidered
Interviews, photobooks and stories behind photographs.
Project Interviews Photo Book Spotlight Photo Essays Story Behind the Photo Photography, Reconsidered
Five photographs, from war and disaster to quiet daily work, and three names under each. Can you name the photographers? Get all five right for a reward.
JM Simpson’s photographs of homelessness begin with a conversation. Before asking permission to photograph someone, he talks with them and listens. Photo Essay
Five well-known photographs and three names under each. Can you name the photographers? Open a hint if you get stuck.
Why another good photograph may not be what the work needs. Photography, Reconsidered
Justin Mott’s personal projects give him room to experiment. He arrived in Vietnam in 2006 and soon began receiving regular assignments from The New York Times. Interviews
A house could disappear and still shape Ben Marcin’s project. In Baltimore, he photographed single row houses left standing after their neighbours had been demolished. Photography Book Spotlight
During lockdown, Wolfgang Zurborn went back to his photographs of crowds. He scanned hundreds of colour negatives from the 1980s and 1990s, made at political, sporting, religious, tourist and entertainment events. Photography Book Spotlight
What changes when someone else selects the photographs? Everett Helm makes those decisions for Composition, the visual art platform he started while studying design. Interviews
I am launching Photopedia 2.0 and updating the site page by page over the next two weeks. Here is what is changing, and a free 30-day trial of Photography, Reconsidered as a thank-you for your patience.
What changes when one moment is chosen to represent something larger? Photography, Reconsidered
Magnum Photos is selling photographs that make you ask what is real. Fact/Fiction, the new Magnum Square Print Sale, brings together over 70 small prints, from straight documents of history to scenes that were carefully staged. Interviews
Zsanett Fodor combines separate moments into one island portrait. In Moments of Crete, the Hungarian amateur photographer brings together views from her trip to the Greek island. Photo Essay
Lauren Shaw found connections between her body and nature. In March 2020, she brought an extracted tooth home from the dentist, amazed that it had come from her own body. She spent several days photographing it. Photography Book Spotlight
Julio Mitchel finished El Sur without seeing conditions improve. From the 1980s to 2000, he travelled through seven Latin American countries, photographing poverty, inequality, and the abuse of power. Photography Book Spotlight
Catherine DeLattre’s photographs begin with something worth stopping for. Driving through Wayne County, Pennsylvania, she notices isolated houses, trees, and open fields. Photography Book Spotlight
Why sometimes you need to stop adding photographs to see where to look next, and how to do it. Photography, Reconsidered
Oviul Maruf found a project in his mother’s garden. On the roof of their home in Sylhet, Bangladesh, she grows flowers that became subjects for many photographs in Botanical Silence. Photo Essay
Color entered Janelle Lynch’s photographs through painting. In Another Way of Looking at Love, she photographed plants and trees on her property in the Catskills. Photography Book Spotlight
Wesley Verhoeve photographs first and finds the story later. His Notice books began with learning to slow down during lockdown in Vancouver. Photography Book Spotlight
Deleted important photos? Follow this step-by-step guide to check backups, scan a memory card or computer drive, and safely recover your pictures. Advertorial
Robin de Puy could no longer make this project alone. She first photographed Randy in Ely, Nevada, during a 2015 road trip and kept returning to him for more than ten years. Photography Book Spotlight
How looking back at our photographs can reveal what keeps drawing our attention Photography, Reconsidered
Gosbert Gottmann wanted war photographs that resisted easy reading. In Freiheit Freedom Воля, he works with images connected to the war in Ukraine and changes them through abstraction, distortion and deformation. Photography Book Spotlight
Lee Espinoza reminded Darren Vargas of his late grandfather. The photographer met the boxing coach in 2025, five years after his grandfather Esmael died. Photography Book Spotlight