The familiar image of the American firefighter is incomplete. For RJ Clarke, part of what is missing is the history of Black firefighters and other firefighters of color. Interviews

Emin Özmen spent 15 years photographing ordinary life in Turkey. His new photobook, Memleket, brings together people, places, and small moments he encountered across Anatolia. Photography Book Spotlight

For six years, Eva Verbeeck listened before photographing. She travelled across 28 American states and photographed more than 400 girls between the ages of 8 and 18. Photography Book Spotlight

One sleep-lab transcript changed Susan kae Grant’s photography. She had been waking from REM sleep and describing what she had just seen. Photography Book Spotlight

David Katzenstein returned to Bhutan after twenty-six years. There, he met the same three girls he had photographed in 1999, now grown women. Photography Book Spotlight

Radford used AI to make his father disappear. After his father died, William Josephs Radford went through thousands of family photographs and was surprised by how few included him. Interviews

What would you do if a polar bear appeared outside Story Behind The Photograph

Sometimes the answer comes during editing. Sometimes it appears months or years after a photograph was made. But for Luke Oppenheimer, it happened before he even pressed the shutter. Story Behind The Photograph

New York’s diners are disappearing faster than we notice. Rising rents, gentrification, and higher operating costs are forcing many of these places to close. Photography Book Spotlight

Sherrie Nickol found her photographic voice fifty years later. When she returned to her archive from the late 1970s, she discovered more than 300 photographs that had almost never been seen. Photography Book Spotlight

Silence changed how Pie Aerts understood his own fear. For most of his life, he was afraid of being alone. Photography Book Spotlight

A prison sentence tells only part of a life. Sara Bennett has spent more than a decade photographing women convicted of homicide and sentenced to life in New York State. Photography Book Spotlight

Being an outsider shaped every portrait Dan Nelken made. He had known that feeling long before arriving in Uganda. Photography Book Spotlight

Can a prison cage exist without prison walls? For Kristina Rozhkova, this question became personal after her arrest in Russia in June 2024. Photography Book Spotlight

A photograph can lose something when words explain it. Stephanie Duprie Routh made this tension central to Atlas of Invisible Things. Photography Book Spotlight

What happens when you revisit fifty years of photographs? For Greg Girard, looking back was not simply about remembering where he had been. Photography Book Spotlight

For 40 minutes, Pete Souza photographed from one spot. He was inside the White House Situation Room during the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound. Story Behind The Photograph

The same place can become a different photograph. Returning years later can change what you notice. Photography Book Spotlight

Some photographs reveal their meaning only years later. Benita Suchodrev discovered this while returning to images made across different periods of her life. Photography Book Spotlight

In my interview with Crewdson, we went through how Madeline’s Beauty Salon was made. Story Behind The Photograph

A murderer shared Taisuke Nakano’s exact name. He discovered this while researching a real murder from 2000. Photography Book Spotlight

Inside a piece of glacier ice, Tristan Duke found a record of a climate crisis from 4,200 years ago. He turned that record into a photograph by placing the ice directly onto photographic paper. Story Behind The Photograph

Tsubasa Kawaguchi found beauty in a camera’s failure. The old camera could not focus properly, its shutter often failed, and its colors shifted toward magenta. Photography Book Spotlight