Martin Kaninsky 8/24/26 Martin Kaninsky 8/24/26

How Tristan Duke Turned a 4,200-Year-Old Climate Record Into a Photograph

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

Martin Kaninsky 1/13/26 Martin Kaninsky 1/13/26

What Happens When You Photograph Climate Change Using the Thing That’s Disappearing? Tristan Duke Explains Glacial Optics

What happens when climate change becomes the camera lens itself? Instead of photographing climate change in a traditional way, he uses melting glacier ice as the actual camera lens. Photography Book Spotlight

Martin Kaninsky 7/13/25 Martin Kaninsky 7/13/25

How Tristan Duke Built Cameras From Melting Ice to Capture the Fragile Gaze of Glaciers

Imagine a lens that disappears as it photographs. This is not science fiction. It is what artist Tristan Duke built using ice from Arctic glaciers. Photography Book Spotlight

How Oviul Maruf’s Mother’s Rooftop Garden Became the Setting for Botanical Silence

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. Interviews

What Painting Changed About Janelle Lynch’s Photographs

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

From Amsterdam Walks to Family Life in Ukraine: What Connects Wesley Verhoeve’s Notice Books

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

From Brief Encounters to Years of Returning: Robin de Puy on Photographing People

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. Interviews