When a Photograph Works, What Should You Do Next?
How do you get from one good photograph to something more? Photography, Reconsidered
Susan kae Grant Spent 25 Years Photographing the Space of Dreams Without Illustrating a Single Dream
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
The Same Valley, 26 Years Later: David Katzenstein on Photography, Time, and Reunion
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
What Happens To A Memory When You Remove Someone From The Photograph That Holds It?
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
Paul Nicklen Opened His Cabin Window to a Polar Bear. Then She Tried to Come Inside
What would you do if a polar bear appeared outside Story Behind The Photograph
How to Stop Taking the Same Photographs Over and Over Again
Why do some photographers see pictures you would walk straight past? Photography, Reconsidered
Why a Single Photograph of Nadir Became the Final Image in Luke Oppenheimer’s Ottuk
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
Karla and James Murray Have Photographed New York for 30 Years. Their New Book Reveals Why Its Diners Still Matter
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 Returned to Her 1970s Archive. She Found the Photographer She Was Becoming
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
Photographing Patagonia’s Puesteros Changed Pie Aerts Understanding of Silence
Silence changed how Pie Aerts understood his own fear. For most of his life, he was afraid of being alone. Photography Book Spotlight
These Women Were Sentenced to Life in Prison. Sara Bennett Wanted Us to See More Than Their Crimes
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
Borrow the Question, Not the Photograph
How do you learn from photographs you admire without simply making weaker versions of them? Photography, Reconsidered
How Dan Nelken Approached Photographing the Women of Rural Uganda as an Outsider
Being an outsider shaped every portrait Dan Nelken made. He had known that feeling long before arriving in Uganda. Photography Book Spotlight
What We Can Learn From How Photographers Think
Why understanding the decisions behind photographs can help us understand our own work Photography, Reconsidered
After Her Arrest, Kristina Rozhkova Began Seeing Cages Everywhere
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
The Words in Atlas of Invisible Things Were Never Meant to Tell You What the Photographs Mean
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 Look Back at 50 Years of Your Photographs? Greg Girard Found a Career He Had Never Fully Seen
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
The Story Behind Pete Souza’s Bin Laden Raid Photograph and Hillary Clinton’s Famous Reaction
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