Thorsten Overgaard

Thorsten Overgaard (Thorsten von Overgaard) is a Danish-born photographer and writer, born in Aarhus in 1965 and now based in Florida and New York. He works mainly in portrait and documentary photography with Leica cameras and is widely known for his writing and teaching about photography and Leica.

He has run the YouTube channel Magic of Light since 2017 and is the author of books including Composition in Photography: The Photographer as Storyteller and A Little Book on Photography. He appears in the short documentaries Picture Perfect (2008) and A Life With Leica (2014), filmed in Rome.

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Martin Kaninsky

Martin is the creator of About Photography Blog. With over 15 years of experience as a practicing photographer, Martin’s approach focuses on photography as an art form, emphasizing the stories behind the images rather than concentrating on gear.

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