Interview with Sony Future Filmmaker Award 2023 winner Dan Thorburn
We talk to the Sony Future Filmmaker Awards 2023 winner of the Fiction category Dan Thorburn on the process behind his short film ‘Salt Water Town’, on drawing cinematography inspiration from painting,...
View ArticleCivilization: The Way We Live Now exhibition curator tells all
Civilization: The Way We Live Now is an ambitious, thought-provoking and visually stunning attempt to summarise contemporary society in photos. Nigel Atherton talks to curator William A Ewing. How...
View ArticlePhotographing BST Hyde Park with the Nikon Z8
Aspiring photographer Ethan Hart achieved his dream when he was picked by music photography legend Dave ‘Hogie’ Hogan as the winner of our BST Hyde Park competition. The 19 year-old, from south-west...
View ArticleDiving with sharks: shark attack survivor turned photographer
Being attacked by a shark would put many people off going back into the ocean. But for Hawaiian surfer Mike Coots, 44, the near-death experience led to a new life as an underwater photographer working...
View Article50 years of Billingham Bags: the story
Billingham bags are 50 years old this year. Nigel Atherton visited their West Midlands factory to talk to founders Ros and Martin Billingham about their journey and how making the world’s most iconic...
View ArticleCapturing Women’s football on film
We talk to Raiyan Rafiq and Harriet Duffy, two young female photographers who specialise in photographing women’s football on analogue film cameras. Gen Z has long established itself as a nostalgic...
View ArticleThe best documentary photography course in the world?
In 1973, Magnum photographer David Hurn established the now world-famous Documentary Photography course in Newport. Now running at the University of South Wales (USW) in Cardiff, this year it...
View ArticleEdward Burtynsky: an incredible insight into Abstraction / Extraction
To mark the opening of his new exhibition at Saatchi Gallery, London, Edward Burtynsky talks to Tracy Calder about fishing, photography, eco-anxiety and the benefits of being a perfectionist. When...
View ArticleTaylor Swift, 1989 – the story behind the iconic album cover by LOWFIELD
According to US superstar Taylor Swift, her fifth studio album, titled 1989, was inspired by ‘listening to a lot of late ’80s pop. I really loved the chances they were taking, how bold it was’. It was...
View ArticleJoel Meyerowitz – The act of looking
The great American photographer Joel Meyerowitz talks to David Clark about his creative journey from black & white street photography to large-format colour work Joel Meyerowitz is strongly...
View ArticleCelebrating 30 years of Workers by Sebastião Salgado
To celebrate 30 years since the publication of Sebastião Salgado’s seminal book, Workers, Peter Dench asks experts in the photography industry what makes the Brazilian photojournalist’s work so...
View ArticleAerial photography: reaching new heights with Donn Delson
Jessica Miller joins fine art aerial photographer Donn Delson on an open-door helicopter ride over London and takes a deeper look at his work and process. What better way to spend a Thursday morning,...
View ArticleIt’s Glastonbury weekend! Check out this insane Pyramid Stage image
Hollie Latham Hucker finds out how much preparation and planning was required to capture the iconic Pyramid Stage under the night sky. Astrophotographer Josh Dury captured this stunning image of the...
View ArticleCare home album covers gone viral! Story behind the heartwarming photography...
During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, a series of photographs featuring care home residents went viral. Taken on a smartphone the images recreate iconic album covers. Four years later they still...
View ArticleThe war reportage course for journalists is a harsh training ground
You’ve just sat down at the desk, it’s in a nice open plan office space. Today you have to type up some celeb press – who’s getting divorced, who stuns in new photo, and who said the wrong thing?...
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