A Photo Story: The First City in the Americas
Adam Arenas went to Santo Domingo without a camera, came back with a Ricoh and a reason to return. His account of the Zona Colonial, in
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A Photo Story: The First City in the Americas
Adam Arenas went to Santo Domingo without a camera, came back with a Ricoh and a reason to return. His account of
A Photo Story: Nobody Is Looking at the View
Flavia Silva walked the port district of Rio de Janeiro on a gray July Wednesday and came home with twelve pictures in
A Photo Story: Seventy Voices, Twenty Six Recorded
Bojan Fürst set out to profile seventy Newfoundlanders and Labradorians for the seventieth anniversary of the province joining Canada. He finished twenty
A Photo Story: The Masks That Scared Him as a Boy
Ajay Lalu stopped at the Kaapse Klopse on his way home from a photo walk. Three years later, after earning his way
A Photo Story: What Thirty Eight Years as a Rabbi Taught Him to Notice
A retired rabbi turned street photographer stumbled onto a Brooklyn Chabad camp trip on a ferry to Governors Island. What he found
A Photo Story: One Camera One Lens One Family Holiday
Rob Sutherland is a commercial and landscape photographer who has shot a photo a day for sixteen years. On a family trip
Behind The Shot
Behind The Shot With David Mullin
David Mullin photographed the empty tables at his family favorite restaurant on a Leica M6, and the picture became his test of
Behind The Shot With Neil McShane
Neil McShane made this photograph from a bench in his front garden in 2022, while recovering from sepsis with a Fuji X-T20
Behind The Shot With Jasper Bancroft
A figure appears in the mist at the Osaka Expo, caught on a Leica M3 loaded with Ilford Delta 3200. Jasper Bancroft
Behind The Shot With Mark Archibald
Mark Archibald had long kept a quarter mile gravel road in mind as a good sunset vantage point over an Amish farm
Behind The Shot With Michael Houghton
Michael Houghton and his wife fell in love with the Isle of Harris on their first visit in 2015 and have returned
Behind The Shot With Flora van Wageningen
Flora van Wageningen took a solo weekend to the mountains during a genuinely low point in her life, expecting nothing more than
Photographer Spotlight
Photographer Spotlight: Dani Rüede
Dani Rüede bought his first serious camera to photograph his watch collection. A Ricoh GR III turned him into a street photographer,
Photographer Spotlight: Danny Wong
Danny Wong grew up understanding his family through photo albums. Now he carries one camera and one lens, photographs mood rather than
Photographer Spotlight: Kayleigh Morin
Kayleigh Morin started as an artist frustrated that drawing could not capture light the way she wanted. Self portraits led to photographing
Photographer Spotlight: Leighton Phillips
Leighton Phillips describes his work as Urban Still Life, drawn to the mundane, the ignored, and the visually familiar rather than anything
Photographer Spotlight: Flora van Wageningen
Flora van Wageningen picked up a camera in her late thirties, restless and bored with the city she had settled in, and
Photographer Spotlight: Damian Ward
Damian Ward is drawn to woodland and solitary trees, especially in winter when the branches are bare, in a landscape he describes
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Behind The Shot With David Mullin
David Mullin photographed the empty tables at his family favorite restaurant on a Leica M6, and the picture became his test of whether he could still make photographs for himself rather than for the platforms.
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Nothing Is Best Everything Is a Trade
Best camera, best lens, best tips, best photograph of the year. The word is not subjective so much as unfinished, and finishing the sentence changes what you ask for.
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The Pictorialists Were Staging Theatre
A new show in Santa Barbara argues the Pictorialists were not imitating painting so much as directing performances, with models, costumes and built sets.
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Ansel Adams Was Fifty Five Years Late And Why It Matters
Carleton Watkins photographed Yosemite in 1861. Ansel Adams arrived fifty five years later and nobody told him the valley had been done. Why it has been done is the laziest judgement in photography.
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The Collective Eye No. 9
Every week we feature one photograph from the Collective and invite honest feedback from the community. No names attached, no backstory beyond what the photographer was trying to achieve. Just the image, open for genuine critique.
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A Photo Story: The First City in the Americas
Adam Arenas went to Santo Domingo without a camera, came back with a Ricoh and a reason to return. His account of the Zona Colonial, in his own words, and why the old stone kept pulling him to black and white.
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Ask The Collective, Where the Answers Come From People
A new page where you can ask anything about black and white photography. Every answer comes from a photographer, because the point is the conversation and not just the information. An answer to almost any photography question is a few keystrokes away. Type it into a search box and something will tell you, very confidently,…
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Twenty Eight Japanese Women Photographers Land in New York
The International Center of Photography gives a touring survey of Japanese women photographers its first American showing, covering seventy years the exported canon left out.
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Liminal Photography, and Why It Works
A corridor with nobody in it is not an empty photograph, it is a photograph of an absence. What liminal photography is, why it unsettles people, and how to make one in black and white.
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Sigma Built an f/2.8 Telephoto That Weighs 390 Grams
The 50-120mm F2.8 DC OS Contemporary gives crop sensor shooters a constant aperture telephoto at a third of the weight of the full frame equivalent.