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17 March, 2026

Separate but Together – A Father/Son Journey – Part 1

By Carl Follstad

Here we are: me (left) on one of the main corners of the Ginza in Tokyo last month (Dec 2025) and Dad (right) in the summer of 1979. Somewhere near Seattle, if my memory serves....

14 March, 2026

Squares vs. Rectangles in Photography

By David Pauley

My photographic archive, viewed from a certain altitude, resembles nothing more than a collection of rectangles and squares. The rectangles come from my 35mm cameras, while the ...

11 March, 2026

Why Do (Photo)books Matter

By Andrea Monti

Throughout my professional career, I have written and edited several books. Initially, I was neither involved in nor interested in the manufacturing part of the process. Once th...

3 March, 2026

Out of the Drawer and Into the Light: A Journey of Recovery and Rejuvanation

By Niall Keohane

For one reason or another (and one reason more than any other), I’ve neglected photography for some time, only bothering to grab a camera whilst on holidays or weekends away, an...

Day and night distant shots of the Eiffel Tower

18 February, 2026

Which Eiffel Tower Shot Might be Illegal?

By Dave Powell

That’s actually a semi-trick question! Shot just hours apart in 2009 with a my Fujifilm F31fd point-and-shoot, there may be different problems with both images! The one on...

Two cameras plaecd close together on decorative mats on a table. The larger is my most ised camera, a Pentax MX with a Pentax 35mm lens, the smaller is my only digital camera, the lovely little Fuji X10 with its cracking zoom lens.

14 February, 2026

A Filmie goes Digital

By Chris Rusbridge

We see a lot of stories these days about digital camera users trying their hand at film photography, sometimes getting excited and frustrated in equal measure. Just for fun, thi...

12 February, 2026

There are no divine rights to earn a living as a photographer

By Andrea Monti

The recent controversy between a group of photographers and the creator of an AI-powered editing software that promises effortless, professional-quality headshots has once again...

11 February, 2026

The Aritistic Side of my Photography – A Reflection on When I Shoot

By Alexandre Kreisman

Now that the technical basics have become second nature – the things that let me work faster, think less, and shoot more deliberately – I would like to dive into the...

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