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
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
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 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
THE CAMERA REVEALED WHAT WORDS NEVER COULD - Julian & Jonathan by Sarah Mei Herman
In 2005, a family trip quietly became a 20-year project. It began as a way to photograph a young boy and his father during a short time together. Photography Book Spotlight
How Kathya Maria Landeros Spent 13 Years Photographing Immigrant Farm Communities to Rewrite the Story of the American West
Verdant Land reframes immigrant labor through patience, trust, and time. It looks at how long-term photography can show immigrant communities beyond work alone. Photography Book Spotlight
The Year of the Lizard: How Fleeting Light, Instinct, and Analogue Film Became a 63-Copy Handmade Book
I trust instinct more than intention when photographing. This idea shapes The Year of the Lizard, a book built from brief moments that appear before they can be fully understood. Photography Book Spotlight
Inbal Abergil on Photographing What Remains When Someone Never Comes Home
Not every story of war involves the battlefield. This conversation looks at what remains after someone never comes home. Photography Book Spotlight
Why James Florio Hiked Into a Blizzard Hundreds of Times to Photograph One Place
For eight winters, one sculpture kept calling him back. James Florio returned to the same hill again and again, often in extreme wind and snow, carrying an 8×10 camera and knowing he might not be able to make a photograph at all. Photography Book Spotlight
Why Wendy Ploger Didn’t Burn Her Diaries and Instead Turned Them Into a 104-Page Photobook
After her breakup, Wendy Ploger opened her diaries instead. What began as private notes written between 2015 and 2019 slowly turned into material she could no longer ignore. Photography Book Spotlight