Alan Palazon
I’ve been writing professionally since 2021 and joined Digital Camera World as a staff writer in 2026. My previous role was as a junior editor for a careers advice publisher and I’ve freelanced in the sustainability and travel and tourism niches.
In 2025, I became a qualified journalist completing my training remotely while traveling through Latin America. The experience melded my love for words and photography, and expanded my photographic interest into international photojournalism. Capturing the world’s incredible landscapes and cultures through the lens is what most inspires me.
I started out on a Nikon D3500, which was the ideal entry-level digital camera, but have since upgraded to Sony’s Alpha system. My go-to setup is the A7III (and later A7 models) paired with the 24-105 F4 G lens. In all honesty, cameras are so advanced these days that I don’t think it matters what make or model you use.
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News An Australian science photography competition has selected its shortlist, with the finalists highlighting just how majestic our planet is, from endearing wildlife to breathtaking landscapes

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News One of the world’s most celebrated monochrome photographers is gifting a lucky winner his personal Leica Typ 246, a camera he’s used for the past 15 years

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OPINION Mirrorless seems to get the automatic nod of approval simply because it’s the newer technology, but full-frame DSLR cameras can outperform APS-C

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OPINION These two images are undoubtedly powerful – but are they truly among the best of the year so far? Here’s my take, and hopefully you’ll share yours

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News After a “mountain of bad photos,” Iceland Air has found a terrible photographer, with the winner taking home a cash prize and an all-expenses-paid trip

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News Some 1,000 participants have completed over 200,000 classifications since May – but the work is just getting started

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Opinion Ichikawa City Zoo may ban taking photos after a US tourist jumped into the monkey enclosure to record social media content with the famous macaque

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News The YSL exhibition will explore the intimate relationship between the couturier and photography through a vast collection of some 300 images and memorabilia

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News The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is set to open five photography galleries next year, where many of the recently donated works will be displayed

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News The “24-hour photographic adventure” prioritizes speed and creativity with participants capturing an array of images with a tight turnaround

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News Constable was a 19th-century daguerreotype photographer who captured the first ever photo of British royalty

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News This rare lorikeet was discovered in 1920 and had only been photographed once, in 2014 – until conservationists spotted it again in April

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News The court ruled that the image – snapped shortly before Kennedy was killed – belonged to the official JFK museum in Dallas, despite claims from a private collector that he was the owner

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News The image is a brilliant example of Cartier-Bresson’s “Decisive Moment” philosophy: the split second when all elements of a scene come together in perfect harmony

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News "I do think that disposables are definitely one of the worst cases for film photography." Is it time to ditch what is arguably photography’s most wasteful practice?

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Opinion As the Tribeca Film Festival gears up to screen the divisive movie, are we looking at a future where all movies are created without a single actor or set?

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News RRS has unveiled its most affordable carbon fiber tripod lineup yet with the new Core Line promising the brand's signature stability

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News Viltrox recently sawed one of its fast autofocus lenses in half – but how did it still manage to capture impressive images?

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Opinion The coming Belfast Photo Festival will let you smash up perfectly good cameras – I struggle to stomach this, but the bigger issue is how quickly these models were made obsolete by the never-ending stream of newer tech

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HISTORY This slow shutter image, taken during the infamous Book Burning at the Opernplatz, captured the charged, frightening atmosphere that night in 1933
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News This year’s winners of the OpenWalls Spotlight Awards have been announced, and the images evoke the deepest sense of longing for home and nostalgia for times gone by

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News The final image ever taken of Oscar Wilde far exceeded its presale estimate by 7,400%
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News The heron's physics-defying tricks give Jesus a run for his money… until you see what's really going on beneath the water!

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Opinion After becoming the first person to summit the tallest peak on Earth 73 years ago today, Sir Edmund Hillary's anti-selfie sentiment might confuse today's snappers

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News The composition and documentary storytelling of this immersive scene depicting two indigenous fishermen in the Russian Arctic carving through a frozen lake is visceral
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