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 which nobody is looking
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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
A Photo Story: A Feud, a Friendship, and a Clock
Ty Nelson picked up a camera because he loved wrestling, and started shooting the action the way most beginners do. What he
Behind The Shot
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
Behind The Shot With Mark Archibald
Mark Archibald bought six acres of fallow farmland twenty five years ago and spent decades planting trees, scattering acorns on walks, and
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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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 which nobody is looking at the view.
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Roy DeCarava, the Poet of Mid-Century Harlem
Roy DeCarava photographed the Harlem he was born in, printed darker than anyone expected, and insisted he was an artist, not a documentarian. Here is why his black and white work still matters.
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Photographing Autumn When the Color Is the Point
Red and green foliage sit at almost the same brightness, so autumn collapses into gray mush the moment you convert it. Here are five decisions that give the season back its separation.
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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, and black and white became what he calls Urban GRaphic Storytelling.
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Does Sensor Size Matter in Black and White?
A bigger sensor buys light, and light buys clean shadows. In monochrome the noise you are avoiding looks like grain, which changes the arithmetic. Here is what format actually gives you, and what it cannot.
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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 six before the pandemic stopped him, and he wants to finish the rest.
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Fifty Years of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery began collecting photographs in 1976, and they now make up nearly half its holdings. A new show of 120 portraits runs from November, from daguerreotypes to digital.
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The Invisible Photographer
Henri Cartier-Bresson made some of the most famous street photographs ever taken, and almost nobody in them knew he was there. Here is how he worked unseen, and why it mattered.
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What the Pictorialists Got Right
Pictorialism was the movement that fought for photography to be taken seriously as art. Here is what it was, how it began, and why its core idea still makes for better black and white photographs today.
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The Collective Eye No. 8
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.