Tom May
Tom May is a freelance writer and editor specializing in art, photography, design and travel. He has been editor of Professional Photography magazine, associate editor at Creative Bloq, and deputy editor at net magazine. He has also worked for a wide range of mainstream titles including The Sun, Radio Times, NME, T3, Heat, Company and Bella.
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Iranian photojournalist Newsha Tavakolian returns to the crooked, out-of-focus frames of her early years

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NEWS In her book, the Toronto photographer skips crisis imagery for cab drivers, suitcases and a quiet road

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NEWS Ágata Dominguez's Trail Category winner at The Illume Awards shows Ida Amelie Robsahm, who died months after it was taken

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NEWS The Canadian veteran wildlife photographer is finally getting a UK show

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News Released on Netflix next week, the Ron Howard film shows us how the greatest images come from reading people, not mastering f-stops

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A new exhibition sets postwar street scenes of New York and Paris beside the turn-of-the-century pictures that inspired them

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Buying guide Look and sound better on your video calls, at minimal cost, with the best cheap webcam.

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News A bronze plaque in the Place de la République marks where a shoeshine boy and his customer were photographed by Louis Daguerre in 1838

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Awais Ali Sheikh’s picture of two camouflaged cubs won the Pure Nature – Land category of the OurNature Environmental Photo & Video Award

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Features Iván Macías’s series The World Cup of the Absent sets sporting excitement against families searching for their missing loved ones

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Francisco Negroni’s picture has won the photojournalism category of Wildlife Photographer of the Year

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History His pictures of children in mills, mines and canneries stand as a powerful example of photography driving change

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Opinion The relaunch of the legendary picture magazine is welcome, but we should be realistic about what it can achieve

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NEWS From decaying photographic film to an 800-page visual diary, four artists are competing one of photography’s top honors

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NEWS A major Bronx exhibition brings together decades of image and films by Harvey Wang, chronicler of New York’s everyday characters

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Exhibition The German-Ukrainian photographer swaps sun-drenched piazzas for fog, fences and crumbling facades

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NEWS The RefCam has made referees' job easier, livened up TV, and now sits in Munich's Deutsches Museum

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buying guide Charge your computer – as well as your cameras, tablets, and phones – with the best laptop power banks and power stations

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Officially licensed to mark 100 years of the brand, its design stacks two dials like a twin lens reflex’s lenses

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news Martine Hamilton Knight images reveal where part of England would have been governed from in the event of nuclear war

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Exhibition These vintage prints show how photographer George Hurrell turned 1930s film stars into everlasting icons.

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Her new book swaps the girls of films and magazines for real ones she photographed across 28 states

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John-Oliver Dum’s prize-winning image transforms a tiny garden hunter into an imposing portrait.

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Sherrie Nickol's earliest photographs, shot in the late 1970s and unseen for nearly 50 years, have been collected in a new book

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Book A new two-volume book from Gestalten revisits Kodak’s Colorama, the 18m-wide backlit photographs that dominated Grand Central Station for 40 years.
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