• A Photo Story: Ingnitions

    Andrés Gonzalez started asking questions about Portugal's wildfires in 2023 and has not stopped since. He rides hundreds of kilometers on a motorcycle into the interior of the country while fires are still burning, sometimes arriving before emergency crews. Ignitions is not a project about flames. It is a project about the exhausting human reality of living somewhere that keeps burning.

    Photographs by Andrés Gonzalez

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  • BEHIND THE SHOT WITH TAMAS KERESKENYI

    For nearly twenty years Tamas Kereskenyi could not walk through this square without feeling the weight of it. Anger. Helplessness. The suffocating atmosphere of a political reality that had frozen the place into a symbol of absolute power. Then history changed. He came back for the first time not as a protestor but as a citizen rediscovering his city. And that is when the mist rose from the pavement.

    Photograph by Tamas Kereskenyi

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  • A PHOTO STORY: ALMOST BROKEN

    Jami Azad is a filmmaker based between Los Angeles and Karachi who photographs as therapy. Almost Broken is the work that came from years of looking for the same thing in two countries on opposite sides of the world. The face that has not yet given up. And the one that has.

    Photographs by Jami Azad

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  • A PHOTO STORY: DERAILED

    In July 2022 Dustin Mullin stopped in Green River Utah to buy groceries. The grocery store was immaculate. Fully stocked. Carefully maintained. In a town where businesses had been closing for decades someone still cared deeply enough to keep the shelves full. That detail stayed with him for four years. When he came back with a camera he had one question. What keeps people here when everything else seems to have moved on.

    Photographs by Dustin Mullin

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Photographer Spotlight: Bettina Kardell
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Photographer Spotlight: Bettina Kardell

Bettina Kardel came to photography during the pandemic and found her way to street photography almost immediately. Her work is minimalist, graphic, and built around the geometry of urban spaces. She shoots with prime lenses and a Leica Q3 Monochrom and is currently working on her first photo book. We asked her about all of it.

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A Photo Story: The Uneventful City
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A Photo Story: The Uneventful City

Remon Diaz is a deaf photographer based in Miami who has spent years developing a visual grammar he calls The Decisive Metaphor. His latest analog project, The Uneventful City, is a study of the structural solitude that exists inside urban life when you strip away the noise. Literally and figuratively.

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Weekly News Roundup
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Weekly News Roundup

The Ricoh GR IV Monochrome is the most relevant gear story for the Collective in months. Daido Moriyama has a major exhibition opening in Paris. And someone built a film camera that develops photographs inside itself. Here is everything worth knowing this week.

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How to Look at a Photograph
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How to Look at a Photograph

There is a difference between glancing at a photograph and actually looking at it. Most people glance. Social media has made all of us very good at glancing. Here is what it looks like when you actually stop and read an image and why developing that habit will change your photography.

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A Photo Story: While I'm Working
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A Photo Story: While I'm Working

Every working photographer has a hard drive full of images that did not fit the brief. Ben Lumley decided to do something about it. Photos While I'm Working is the series he built from a decade of moments nobody commissioned and nobody asked for. It might be his most honest work.

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Stop Trying to Find Your Style
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Stop Trying to Find Your Style

Find your style. Develop your style. Have a consistent style. It is the most repeated piece of advice in photography. It is also backwards. Here is why chasing style is getting in the way of better work and what to do instead.

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