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Ben Marcin Photographed Baltimore’s Last Row Houses, Then the Empty Lots They Left Behind
November 4, 2026
Ben Marcin Photographed Baltimore’s Last Row Houses, Then the Empty Lots They Left Behind
November 4, 2026

A house could disappear and still shape Ben Marcin’s project. In Baltimore, he photographed single row houses left standing after their neighbours had been demolished. Photography Book Spotlight

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November 4, 2026

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Ben Marcin Photographed Baltimore’s Last Row Houses, Then the Empty Lots They Left Behind
November 4, 2026
Ben Marcin Photographed Baltimore’s Last Row Houses, Then the Empty Lots They Left Behind
November 4, 2026

A house could disappear and still shape Ben Marcin’s project. In Baltimore, he photographed single row houses left standing after their neighbours had been demolished. Photography Book Spotlight

Read more →
November 4, 2026
Wolfgang Zurborn Scanned His 1980s Negatives During Lockdown. Crowds Is What He Found
November 2, 2026
Wolfgang Zurborn Scanned His 1980s Negatives During Lockdown. Crowds Is What He Found
November 2, 2026

During lockdown, Wolfgang Zurborn went back to his photographs of crowds. He scanned hundreds of colour negatives from the 1980s and 1990s, made at political, sporting, religious, tourist and entertainment events. Photography Book Spotlight

Read more →
November 2, 2026
What Does a Curator See That a Photographer Might Miss? Everett Helm on Selecting Images
November 1, 2026
What Does a Curator See That a Photographer Might Miss? Everett Helm on Selecting Images
November 1, 2026

What changes when someone else selects the photographs? Everett Helm makes those decisions for Composition, the visual art platform he started while studying design. Interviews

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November 1, 2026
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Ben Marcin Photographed Baltimore’s Last Row Houses, Then the Empty Lots They Left Behind
November 4, 2026
Ben Marcin Photographed Baltimore’s Last Row Houses, Then the Empty Lots They Left Behind
November 4, 2026

A house could disappear and still shape Ben Marcin’s project. In Baltimore, he photographed single row houses left standing after their neighbours had been demolished. Photography Book Spotlight

Read more →
November 4, 2026
Wolfgang Zurborn Scanned His 1980s Negatives During Lockdown. Crowds Is What He Found
November 2, 2026
Wolfgang Zurborn Scanned His 1980s Negatives During Lockdown. Crowds Is What He Found
November 2, 2026

During lockdown, Wolfgang Zurborn went back to his photographs of crowds. He scanned hundreds of colour negatives from the 1980s and 1990s, made at political, sporting, religious, tourist and entertainment events. Photography Book Spotlight

Read more →
November 2, 2026
What Does a Curator See That a Photographer Might Miss? Everett Helm on Selecting Images
November 1, 2026
What Does a Curator See That a Photographer Might Miss? Everett Helm on Selecting Images
November 1, 2026

What changes when someone else selects the photographs? Everett Helm makes those decisions for Composition, the visual art platform he started while studying design. Interviews

Read more →
November 1, 2026
About Photography Is Under Reconstruction for the Next Two Weeks
October 31, 2026
About Photography Is Under Reconstruction for the Next Two Weeks
October 31, 2026

I am launching Photopedia 2.0 and updating the site page by page over the next two weeks. Here is what is changing, and a free 30-day trial of Photography, Reconsidered as a thank-you for your patience.

Read more →
October 31, 2026
Which Photograph Gets to Stand for What Happened?
October 30, 2026
Which Photograph Gets to Stand for What Happened?
October 30, 2026

What changes when one moment is chosen to represent something larger? Photography, Reconsidered

Read more →
October 30, 2026
Why Some Real Photographs Look Staged: Michael Sargeant on Magnum’s Fact/Fiction Print Sale
October 29, 2026
Why Some Real Photographs Look Staged: Michael Sargeant on Magnum’s Fact/Fiction Print Sale
October 29, 2026

Magnum Photos is selling photographs that make you ask what is real. Fact/Fiction, the new Magnum Square Print Sale, brings together over 70 small prints, from straight documents of history to scenes that were carefully staged. Interviews

Read more →
October 29, 2026
Zsanett Fodor Photographs Crete Without Planning Which Images Will End Up Together
October 29, 2026
Zsanett Fodor Photographs Crete Without Planning Which Images Will End Up Together
October 29, 2026

Zsanett Fodor combines separate moments into one island portrait. In Moments of Crete, the Hungarian amateur photographer brings together views from her trip to the Greek island. Photo Essay

Read more →
October 29, 2026
A Broken Tooth Started Lauren Shaw’s Photobook About Her Changing Body
October 28, 2026
A Broken Tooth Started Lauren Shaw’s Photobook About Her Changing Body
October 28, 2026

Lauren Shaw found connections between her body and nature. In March 2020, she brought an extracted tooth home from the dentist, amazed that it had come from her own body. She spent several days photographing it. Photography Book Spotlight

Read more →
October 28, 2026
Why Julio Mitchel Stopped Photographing El Sur After 20 Years
October 26, 2026
Why Julio Mitchel Stopped Photographing El Sur After 20 Years
October 26, 2026

Julio Mitchel finished El Sur without seeing conditions improve. From the 1980s to 2000, he travelled through seven Latin American countries, photographing poverty, inequality, and the abuse of power. Photography Book Spotlight

Read more →
October 26, 2026
What Makes Catherine DeLattre Stop the Car for a Photograph?
October 24, 2026
What Makes Catherine DeLattre Stop the Car for a Photograph?
October 24, 2026

Catherine DeLattre’s photographs begin with something worth stopping for. Driving through Wayne County, Pennsylvania, she notices isolated houses, trees, and open fields. Photography Book Spotlight

Read more →
October 24, 2026
What If You Finished Before You Were Done?
October 23, 2026
What If You Finished Before You Were Done?
October 23, 2026

Why sometimes you need to stop adding photographs to see where to look next, and how to do it. Photography, Reconsidered

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October 23, 2026
How Oviul Maruf’s Mother’s Rooftop Garden Became the Setting for Botanical Silence
October 22, 2026
How Oviul Maruf’s Mother’s Rooftop Garden Became the Setting for Botanical Silence
October 22, 2026

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. Photo Essay

Read more →
October 22, 2026
What Painting Changed About Janelle Lynch’s Photographs
October 20, 2026
What Painting Changed About Janelle Lynch’s Photographs
October 20, 2026

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

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October 20, 2026
From Amsterdam Walks to Family Life in Ukraine: What Connects Wesley Verhoeve’s Notice Books
October 20, 2026
From Amsterdam Walks to Family Life in Ukraine: What Connects Wesley Verhoeve’s Notice Books
October 20, 2026

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

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October 20, 2026
How to Recover Lost or Deleted Digital Photos
October 19, 2026
How to Recover Lost or Deleted Digital Photos
October 19, 2026

Deleted important photos? Follow this step-by-step guide to check backups, scan a memory card or computer drive, and safely recover your pictures. Advertorial

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October 19, 2026
From Brief Encounters to Years of Returning: Robin de Puy on Photographing People
October 18, 2026
From Brief Encounters to Years of Returning: Robin de Puy on Photographing People
October 18, 2026

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. Photography Book Spotlight

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October 18, 2026
What If You’re Not Photographing What You Think You Are?
October 16, 2026
What If You’re Not Photographing What You Think You Are?
October 16, 2026

How looking back at our photographs can reveal what keeps drawing our attention Photography, Reconsidered

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October 16, 2026
How Far Can You Change a War Photograph Before It Stops Being About What Happened?
October 15, 2026
How Far Can You Change a War Photograph Before It Stops Being About What Happened?
October 15, 2026

Gosbert Gottmann wanted war photographs that resisted easy reading. In Freiheit Freedom Воля, he works with images connected to the war in Ukraine and changes them through abstraction, distortion and deformation. Photography Book Spotlight

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October 15, 2026
A Boxing Coach Reminded Darren Vargas of the Grandfather He Had Lost
October 13, 2026
A Boxing Coach Reminded Darren Vargas of the Grandfather He Had Lost
October 13, 2026

Lee Espinoza reminded Darren Vargas of his late grandfather. The photographer met the boxing coach in 2025, five years after his grandfather Esmael died. Photography Book Spotlight

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October 13, 2026
Your Best Photograph May Be the Wrong Photograph
October 12, 2026
Your Best Photograph May Be the Wrong Photograph
October 12, 2026

Why making photographs work together requires a different kind of judgement Photography, Reconsidered

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October 12, 2026
Mike Chudley Has Been Shooting Street Photography for Almost 10 Years. Here’s What He Wishes He Knew at 19
October 11, 2026
Mike Chudley Has Been Shooting Street Photography for Almost 10 Years. Here’s What He Wishes He Knew at 19
October 11, 2026

The street is boring until you learn what to notice. Most of the time, nothing special is happening. Photography Book Spotlight

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October 11, 2026
How 300-Year-Old Maps Changed the Way Virginia McGee Richards Photographed the American South
October 9, 2026
How 300-Year-Old Maps Changed the Way Virginia McGee Richards Photographed the American South
October 9, 2026

The past became visible once Richards learned where to look. For The Inner Passage, Virginia McGee Richards spent fifteen years photographing a waterway in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Photography Book Spotlight

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October 9, 2026
His Mother Said She Never Wanted to Be Reborn. Daesung Lee Turned That Answer Into a Photography Project
October 7, 2026
His Mother Said She Never Wanted to Be Reborn. Daesung Lee Turned That Answer Into a Photography Project
October 7, 2026

Nirvana began with a question about another life. After losing a close friend, Daesung Lee returned to his parents’ home and began spending more time with his mother. Interviews

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October 7, 2026
Ian Bates’s Only Road Out Was Blocked by a Burning Tree. It Was the Last Wildfire He Photographed for The Weight of Ash
October 5, 2026
Ian Bates’s Only Road Out Was Blocked by a Burning Tree. It Was the Last Wildfire He Photographed for The Weight of Ash
October 5, 2026

Ian Bates found his wildfire story after the fire. In 2014, he saw his first wildfire while visiting a friend in Eastern Washington. Photography Book Spotlight

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October 5, 2026
400 Kilometres, a Mamiya RB67, and Hundreds of London Streets: How Alberto Tandoi Built a Portrait Book From Chance Encounters
October 3, 2026
400 Kilometres, a Mamiya RB67, and Hundreds of London Streets: How Alberto Tandoi Built a Portrait Book From Chance Encounters
October 3, 2026

Alberto Tandoi walked 400 kilometres photographing London strangers. The project started from his fascination with how people in the city express themselves through clothes and personal style. Photography Book Spotlight

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October 3, 2026
Consent Is Only the First Ethical Decision
October 2, 2026
Consent Is Only the First Ethical Decision
October 2, 2026

What happens when the reason for using a photograph changes after it has already been taken? Photography, Reconsidered

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October 2, 2026
Jo Ann Chaus Spent 10 Years Photographing Herself. The Pictures Helped Her Understand What She Had Kept Unspoken
October 1, 2026
Jo Ann Chaus Spent 10 Years Photographing Herself. The Pictures Helped Her Understand What She Had Kept Unspoken
October 1, 2026

The camera helped Jo Ann Chaus uncover herself. What began as self-portraiture slowly became a way to understand feelings she had kept hidden for years. Photography Book Spotlight

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October 1, 2026
How to Fund Photography Projects Without Overspending
October 1, 2026
How to Fund Photography Projects Without Overspending
October 1, 2026

Learn how to fund personal photography projects without overspending using smart budgeting, sinking funds, creative constraints, and gear rules. Advertorial

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October 1, 2026
What Makes a Portrait Feel Painterly?
September 30, 2026
What Makes a Portrait Feel Painterly?
September 30, 2026

Some portraits seem to hold light differently. The face has shape without feeling overly lit. The background has depth, but you do not look at it before you look at the person.  Advertorial

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September 30, 2026
35,000 Photographs Across 26 States Later, RJ Clarke Is Building a Historical Archive of Black Firefighters and Other Firefighters of Color
September 29, 2026
35,000 Photographs Across 26 States Later, RJ Clarke Is Building a Historical Archive of Black Firefighters and Other Firefighters of Color
September 29, 2026

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

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September 29, 2026
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Ben Marcin Photographed Baltimore’s Last Row Houses, Then the Empty Lots They Left Behind
November 4, 2026
Ben Marcin Photographed Baltimore’s Last Row Houses, Then the Empty Lots They Left Behind
November 4, 2026

A house could disappear and still shape Ben Marcin’s project. In Baltimore, he photographed single row houses left standing after their neighbours had been demolished. Photography Book Spotlight

Read more →
November 4, 2026
Wolfgang Zurborn Scanned His 1980s Negatives During Lockdown. Crowds Is What He Found
November 2, 2026
Wolfgang Zurborn Scanned His 1980s Negatives During Lockdown. Crowds Is What He Found
November 2, 2026

During lockdown, Wolfgang Zurborn went back to his photographs of crowds. He scanned hundreds of colour negatives from the 1980s and 1990s, made at political, sporting, religious, tourist and entertainment events. Photography Book Spotlight

Read more →
November 2, 2026
What Does a Curator See That a Photographer Might Miss? Everett Helm on Selecting Images
November 1, 2026
What Does a Curator See That a Photographer Might Miss? Everett Helm on Selecting Images
November 1, 2026

What changes when someone else selects the photographs? Everett Helm makes those decisions for Composition, the visual art platform he started while studying design. Interviews

Read more →
November 1, 2026
About Photography Is Under Reconstruction for the Next Two Weeks
October 31, 2026
About Photography Is Under Reconstruction for the Next Two Weeks
October 31, 2026

I am launching Photopedia 2.0 and updating the site page by page over the next two weeks. Here is what is changing, and a free 30-day trial of Photography, Reconsidered as a thank-you for your patience.

Read more →
October 31, 2026
Which Photograph Gets to Stand for What Happened?
October 30, 2026
Which Photograph Gets to Stand for What Happened?
October 30, 2026

What changes when one moment is chosen to represent something larger? Photography, Reconsidered

Read more →
October 30, 2026
Why Some Real Photographs Look Staged: Michael Sargeant on Magnum’s Fact/Fiction Print Sale
October 29, 2026
Why Some Real Photographs Look Staged: Michael Sargeant on Magnum’s Fact/Fiction Print Sale
October 29, 2026

Magnum Photos is selling photographs that make you ask what is real. Fact/Fiction, the new Magnum Square Print Sale, brings together over 70 small prints, from straight documents of history to scenes that were carefully staged. Interviews

Read more →
October 29, 2026
Zsanett Fodor Photographs Crete Without Planning Which Images Will End Up Together
October 29, 2026
Zsanett Fodor Photographs Crete Without Planning Which Images Will End Up Together
October 29, 2026

Zsanett Fodor combines separate moments into one island portrait. In Moments of Crete, the Hungarian amateur photographer brings together views from her trip to the Greek island. Photo Essay

Read more →
October 29, 2026
A Broken Tooth Started Lauren Shaw’s Photobook About Her Changing Body
October 28, 2026
A Broken Tooth Started Lauren Shaw’s Photobook About Her Changing Body
October 28, 2026

Lauren Shaw found connections between her body and nature. In March 2020, she brought an extracted tooth home from the dentist, amazed that it had come from her own body. She spent several days photographing it. Photography Book Spotlight

Read more →
October 28, 2026
Why Julio Mitchel Stopped Photographing El Sur After 20 Years
October 26, 2026
Why Julio Mitchel Stopped Photographing El Sur After 20 Years
October 26, 2026

Julio Mitchel finished El Sur without seeing conditions improve. From the 1980s to 2000, he travelled through seven Latin American countries, photographing poverty, inequality, and the abuse of power. Photography Book Spotlight

Read more →
October 26, 2026
What Makes Catherine DeLattre Stop the Car for a Photograph?
October 24, 2026
What Makes Catherine DeLattre Stop the Car for a Photograph?
October 24, 2026

Catherine DeLattre’s photographs begin with something worth stopping for. Driving through Wayne County, Pennsylvania, she notices isolated houses, trees, and open fields. Photography Book Spotlight

Read more →
October 24, 2026
What If You Finished Before You Were Done?
October 23, 2026
What If You Finished Before You Were Done?
October 23, 2026

Why sometimes you need to stop adding photographs to see where to look next, and how to do it. Photography, Reconsidered

Read more →
October 23, 2026
How Oviul Maruf’s Mother’s Rooftop Garden Became the Setting for Botanical Silence
October 22, 2026
How Oviul Maruf’s Mother’s Rooftop Garden Became the Setting for Botanical Silence
October 22, 2026

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. Photo Essay

Read more →
October 22, 2026
What Painting Changed About Janelle Lynch’s Photographs
October 20, 2026
What Painting Changed About Janelle Lynch’s Photographs
October 20, 2026

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

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October 20, 2026
From Amsterdam Walks to Family Life in Ukraine: What Connects Wesley Verhoeve’s Notice Books
October 20, 2026
From Amsterdam Walks to Family Life in Ukraine: What Connects Wesley Verhoeve’s Notice Books
October 20, 2026

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

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October 20, 2026
How to Recover Lost or Deleted Digital Photos
October 19, 2026
How to Recover Lost or Deleted Digital Photos
October 19, 2026

Deleted important photos? Follow this step-by-step guide to check backups, scan a memory card or computer drive, and safely recover your pictures. Advertorial

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October 19, 2026
From Brief Encounters to Years of Returning: Robin de Puy on Photographing People
October 18, 2026
From Brief Encounters to Years of Returning: Robin de Puy on Photographing People
October 18, 2026

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. Photography Book Spotlight

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October 18, 2026
What If You’re Not Photographing What You Think You Are?
October 16, 2026
What If You’re Not Photographing What You Think You Are?
October 16, 2026

How looking back at our photographs can reveal what keeps drawing our attention Photography, Reconsidered

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October 16, 2026
How Far Can You Change a War Photograph Before It Stops Being About What Happened?
October 15, 2026
How Far Can You Change a War Photograph Before It Stops Being About What Happened?
October 15, 2026

Gosbert Gottmann wanted war photographs that resisted easy reading. In Freiheit Freedom Воля, he works with images connected to the war in Ukraine and changes them through abstraction, distortion and deformation. Photography Book Spotlight

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October 15, 2026
A Boxing Coach Reminded Darren Vargas of the Grandfather He Had Lost
October 13, 2026
A Boxing Coach Reminded Darren Vargas of the Grandfather He Had Lost
October 13, 2026

Lee Espinoza reminded Darren Vargas of his late grandfather. The photographer met the boxing coach in 2025, five years after his grandfather Esmael died. Photography Book Spotlight

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October 13, 2026
Your Best Photograph May Be the Wrong Photograph
October 12, 2026
Your Best Photograph May Be the Wrong Photograph
October 12, 2026

Why making photographs work together requires a different kind of judgement Photography, Reconsidered

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October 12, 2026
Mike Chudley Has Been Shooting Street Photography for Almost 10 Years. Here’s What He Wishes He Knew at 19
October 11, 2026
Mike Chudley Has Been Shooting Street Photography for Almost 10 Years. Here’s What He Wishes He Knew at 19
October 11, 2026

The street is boring until you learn what to notice. Most of the time, nothing special is happening. Photography Book Spotlight

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October 11, 2026
How 300-Year-Old Maps Changed the Way Virginia McGee Richards Photographed the American South
October 9, 2026
How 300-Year-Old Maps Changed the Way Virginia McGee Richards Photographed the American South
October 9, 2026

The past became visible once Richards learned where to look. For The Inner Passage, Virginia McGee Richards spent fifteen years photographing a waterway in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Photography Book Spotlight

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October 9, 2026
His Mother Said She Never Wanted to Be Reborn. Daesung Lee Turned That Answer Into a Photography Project
October 7, 2026
His Mother Said She Never Wanted to Be Reborn. Daesung Lee Turned That Answer Into a Photography Project
October 7, 2026

Nirvana began with a question about another life. After losing a close friend, Daesung Lee returned to his parents’ home and began spending more time with his mother. Interviews

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October 7, 2026
Ian Bates’s Only Road Out Was Blocked by a Burning Tree. It Was the Last Wildfire He Photographed for The Weight of Ash
October 5, 2026
Ian Bates’s Only Road Out Was Blocked by a Burning Tree. It Was the Last Wildfire He Photographed for The Weight of Ash
October 5, 2026

Ian Bates found his wildfire story after the fire. In 2014, he saw his first wildfire while visiting a friend in Eastern Washington. Photography Book Spotlight

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October 5, 2026
400 Kilometres, a Mamiya RB67, and Hundreds of London Streets: How Alberto Tandoi Built a Portrait Book From Chance Encounters
October 3, 2026
400 Kilometres, a Mamiya RB67, and Hundreds of London Streets: How Alberto Tandoi Built a Portrait Book From Chance Encounters
October 3, 2026

Alberto Tandoi walked 400 kilometres photographing London strangers. The project started from his fascination with how people in the city express themselves through clothes and personal style. Photography Book Spotlight

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October 3, 2026
Consent Is Only the First Ethical Decision
October 2, 2026
Consent Is Only the First Ethical Decision
October 2, 2026

What happens when the reason for using a photograph changes after it has already been taken? Photography, Reconsidered

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October 2, 2026
Jo Ann Chaus Spent 10 Years Photographing Herself. The Pictures Helped Her Understand What She Had Kept Unspoken
October 1, 2026
Jo Ann Chaus Spent 10 Years Photographing Herself. The Pictures Helped Her Understand What She Had Kept Unspoken
October 1, 2026

The camera helped Jo Ann Chaus uncover herself. What began as self-portraiture slowly became a way to understand feelings she had kept hidden for years. Photography Book Spotlight

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October 1, 2026
How to Fund Photography Projects Without Overspending
October 1, 2026
How to Fund Photography Projects Without Overspending
October 1, 2026

Learn how to fund personal photography projects without overspending using smart budgeting, sinking funds, creative constraints, and gear rules. Advertorial

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October 1, 2026
What Makes a Portrait Feel Painterly?
September 30, 2026
What Makes a Portrait Feel Painterly?
September 30, 2026

Some portraits seem to hold light differently. The face has shape without feeling overly lit. The background has depth, but you do not look at it before you look at the person.  Advertorial

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September 30, 2026
35,000 Photographs Across 26 States Later, RJ Clarke Is Building a Historical Archive of Black Firefighters and Other Firefighters of Color
September 29, 2026
35,000 Photographs Across 26 States Later, RJ Clarke Is Building a Historical Archive of Black Firefighters and Other Firefighters of Color
September 29, 2026

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

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September 29, 2026

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