Inspiration

The work of 35 street photographers was recently shown off on a giant projector in a Los Angeles parking lot.

The funk sucks. No matter who you are and no matter how long you've been at your art, everybody experiences the funk. Maybe you've even named your funk, mine is named Jeff. No real reason. Just feels a little bit more manageable whenever I've applied a name to it.

The beauty of the Arctic is overwhelming. The biting cold and the pristine silence is punctuated by occasional extraordinary sounds, as the glacier ice creaks and falls. At the centre of this beauty are the enormous structures of freshwater ice calved from the glaciers, the great icebergs.

A photograph can reveal some deep human truths, but even the most intricate images may not divulge in a self-referential way. A deeply intimate scene could have been made from very impersonal practices, and similarly one could use a respectful, peaceful photographic approach to produce something obscene.

I recently returned from 10 days in Iceland. After years of critiquing students’ photos with respect to “haiku photography,” I thought it would be useful to point that laser at my recent shooting.

Landscape and adventure photographer Michael Shainblum has taken another trip to Iceland and shares some tips on how to get great photographs no matter what the weather condition.

A moving photo of a newborn gorilla's older brother touching its head has won the top prize in the 2022 Wilderness Safaris Africa in Focus photo awards.

Few technological achievements have changed not only their field but also the way our world works. The Gutenberg printing press, for example, revolutionized how we communicate, and in doing so changed the course of history. The advent of the 35mm film camera had a similar effect. Imagine a world without today’s cameras and the last century of photography. Impossible, thanks to Oskar Barnack.

A drone production company has created a sensational "seasonlapse" video showing the changing of seasons in Boston.

A photographer dad has figured out a magic word that always seems to elicit a natural smile from his son when shooting a photo; he simply yells out "poop."

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has paid a touching tribute to legendary pro wrestling photographer George Napolitano.

When Hurricane Ian devastated Krista Kowalczyk's local community in Sanibel, Florida the wedding photographer wanted to do something to help.

When I work on a blueprint for a potential documentary project most of my attention goes to unpacking whatever it was that drew my initial interest – usually a collection of themes, locations, and characters that I will visit in order to discover what direction the story will end up going in.

A music video has been made entirely from Google Street View images that takes in locations from all around the world.

Famed photographer Nick Brandt's latest project The Day May Break portrays people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about the ebbs and flows of inspiration, particularly with the ups and downs of the last few years. Since I work with a variety of photographers, I get to observe their patterns of motivation, and it’s been fascinating to think about.

As a photographer, I have been making photographs with my own cameras my entire life. From my first Kodak Instamatic camera as a child, to the Sigma film SLR that I received as a gift in high school, to my first digital camera (a Sony Mavica in 1999 or so) to my current DSLR (a Canon 5D Mark IV) — for me photography has been both a lifelong pursuit and a passion as both a photographer and an artist.

Greenhouse gasses and a warming atmosphere may be invisible, but the consequences of climate change sit clearly in sight. In a State of Change, a social documentary featuring wildlife photographer Donal Boyd, seeks to illustrate the climate crisis while confronting the challenge of pulling off such a monumental visual task.

I created my first vertorama on the 20th of June 2007. While strolling around Cape Town with my camera early one morning, I noticed some beautiful light reflecting off the smooth polished cobbles in Greenmarket square.

Baldwin Lee toured the Deep South throughout the 1980s where he captured Black Americans on a 4x5 large format camera.

Benedek Lampert, a Hungary-based photographer who specializes in photographing toys and miniatures (especially Lego), has shared a behind-the-scenes look at one of his largest projects yet: the 801-piece Harry Potter Hogwarts Express train set.