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

Tsubasa Kawaguchi Found a Broken Camera. Its Magenta Photographs Became His First Photobook

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

How A Save The Children Assignment Became Carol Allen-Storey’s 10-Year Documentary Project About Disability, Motherhood, And Survival

Trust matters more than photographs in long-term documentary work. Carol Allen-Storey discovered this through Defying the Myth, a project that began with a Save the Children assignment in 2014 and continued for more than a decade. Photography Book Spotlight