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A student built a digital-analog camera using just four things – and the viral video is the perfect example of how digital cameras work

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

WATCH Watch how an architecture student built a digital camera using everyday household objects

WATCH
Photography festivals work better with a theme, and Bristol has built an entire biennial around this single unsettling idea

By Tom May Published

Time Machine brings multiple exhibitions to south-west England this October, all built around photography's strange relationship with time, history and memory

Galleries and Exhibitions
Swirling plasma in Sun's surface.
“After several attempts, a perfect opportunity eventually arose,” says award-winning astrophotographer on his super-detailed shot of Sun’s surface

By Alan Palazon Published

News Portuguese astrophotographer Miguel Claro used a high-powered telescope and camera to capture a close-up frame of writhing plasma on the Sun’s photosphere

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At the 1986 Wackersdorf anti-nuclear protest, a shirtless man raises his arm mid-shout as a couple embrace beside him, a dark storm-clouded sky filling the background.
German photographer Wolfgang Zurborn spent lockdown scanning his pictures of crowds, and learned something profound about finding order inside chaos

By Tom May Published

BOOKS Crowds is a new book gathering together four decades of dense, color-saturated street photography

BOOKS
“This family was in a bunker. When the Americans threw a grenade in a bunker, they would shout ‘fire in thehole!’ before there was an enormous explosion. I don’t know how these people got out alive. I was just tryingto show how you’d feel if that was your family—so badly shocked and threatened at the end of it all”
“I want my picture to hurt you.” Now 90, renowned Vietnam War photographer Don McCullin shares why he wants to create photos to lose sleep over – and why he hates his most famous photograph

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

BOOKS Ahead of his final book – and 91st birthday – Don McCullin recounts stories of working as a war photographer through decades of global conflict

BOOKS
Black-and-white group portrait of four generations of women in the same family.
Defying Henry VIII and a royal coup are just some of the Throckmorton stories – now the British aristocratic family is exhibiting photos of its generations

By Alan Palazon Published

News The Throckmorton family was one of the most influential in British history – now, its current generations are exhibiting historic photos of their ancestors at their family estate, Coughton Court

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Olive ridley turtle hatchlings (Lepidochelys olivacea) swim out to the open sea upon their release at the Bajulmati Sea Turtle Conservation Area (BSTC) in Bajulmati Beach, Malang, East Java, Indonesia, on July 22, 2026
Beachgoers called for help for an injured sea turtle. Instead, authorities found the first-ever sea turtle nest on the West Coast. Photos prove the rare sighting isn’t a one-time thing

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

TURTLES A photo analysis shows that at least two different sea turtles have built nests on California beaches, the “first-ever recorded natural nesting for any sea turtle species on the US West Coast.”

TURTLES
Commuters walk past a woman holding a placard depicting her boyfriend bearing the slogan "I dream of hugging the one I love" during a rally in support of Ukraine prisoners of war dubbed "Do not be silent! Captivity kills" held for security reasons in a metro station in Kyiv on September 20, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Shutter speed isn’t just a camera setting. In this sobering photograph, it tells a story

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

PHOTOJOURNALISM A news photograph coming from Ukraine this week illustrates the power of using shutter speed as a storytelling tool

PHOTOJOURNALISM
The PolarPro Radial Gradient filter
These photos feel like the 1970s. They were taken with a modern digital camera – and a set of very unusual filters

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

FILTERS PolarPro has launched a trio of filters that add in graduated color at the edges for an old-school psychedelic look to your photos

FILTERS
The Instax Pal 2 in a photographer's hands
This cheap compact camera takes "terrible" images. I love it anyway. Am I weird, or is a new trend finally replacing the megapixel race?

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

OPINION The megapixel race has been going on for over two decades. But some of the most viral cameras abandon mega megapixels for something else entirely

OPINION
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