Latest articles by Tom May
Best scrapbooks in 2026: showcase your photos and memories in style
BUYING GUIDE Capture your memories in style, using the best scrapbooks
Chris Yan's photo series about a Chinese New Year festival is a masterclass in using color and framing to evoke meaning
This Beijing photographer documents Shehuo traditions with commercial expertise and visual precision
Ishiuchi Miyako photographs completely different things, yet her 50 years of work all looks unmistakably hers
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This remarkable wartime snapshot reveals an important truth about model-turned-photojournalist Lee Miller
A new exhibition of Lee Miller's work opens this week – and a single image tells you everything you need to know
Best microphone isolation shields in 2026: for podcasts, streaming, and more
Updated Want to sound clear, crisp and professional? Then you need the best microphone isolation shield!
When Shirin Neshat photographed Malala, she turned to calligraphy to say what the camera alone could not
News The Malala Yousafzai portrait that went beyond photography is now on show at a new immersive London experience
A New York gallery exhibited an AI version of a famous photo without getting permission, and I'm not surprised people are furious!
Opinion The Danziger Gallery hung an AI-generated version of an iconic image by Ansel Adams and offered it up for sale
The one photo of Nelson Mandela the world needed: why Jillian Edelstein went against the grain to shoot this portrait of the South African icon
The story behind the Mandela portrait that defied expectation, now brought to life at a new immersive London experience
The best bird box cameras
Updated Capture images and video of nesting birds you couldn't get by yourself, with the best bird box cameras
Ron Howard's new documentary movie, Avedon, reminds us why the greatest photographer of the 20th century didn't care what camera he used
Premiering at Cannes this week, the film shows us how the greatest images come from reading people, not mastering f-stops
Nan Goldin turns her camera onto art history, and the results are an inspiration for any photographer wishing to reinvent themselves
After five decades documenting lived experience, the American photographer is now shooting marble, myths and mortality
Oscar-nominated filmmaker is reinventing nature and landscape photography and this beautiful free ebook highlights how
News The writer and producer behind Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves has swapped the big screen for impressionist images of nature
The best thermal printers for printing labels, addresses and more in 2026
buying guide You don't need ink to print address labels, tickets and labels: just use the best thermal printers!
The best iPad alternatives in 2026
Buying guide Forget Apple: these iPad alternatives from Samsung, Microsoft, Amazon, and Lenovo provide better value and great specs
Edith Tudor-Hart was one of Britain's best documentary photographers and a soviet spy - so why have most people never heard of her?
History Bauhaus-trained and politically fearless, Edith Tudor-Hart was one of Britain's finest documentary photographers. She was also a Soviet secret agent. Now, a new book tells her astonishing story
How do you photograph history that people would rather forget, or grief that has no shape? Two Japanese photographers give very different answers
News From postwar Hiroshima to pandemic-era Tōhoku, a landmark exhibition pairs two Japanese photographers who've spent careers turning trauma into art
John Baer grabbed a Leica from a captured German soldier in 1945. Nearly 50 years later, his son found the negatives – which were some of the best postwar street photographs ever
NEWS Meet the untrained amateur who shot postwar Europe and New York City like a Magnum master, then locked it all in a box
One of the world's most private photographers is finally showing his work
Discover what Steven Meisel saw in London in 1993, and why every photographer should pay attention
Annie Leibovitz launched a new prize for emerging photographers, and it's already producing remarkable work
News Only in its second year, the Saltzman-Leibovitz Photography Prize is shaping up to be one of the most interesting awards in the field
This famous photo of New York workers eating lunch on a steel girder has been seen by billions, but the daredevil story of how it was photographed can only now be told
History A new book unpacks the untold story behind Lunch on a Beam, the 1932 publicity photo that became a 20th-century icon
The world's greatest photography flea market returns to this small French town this June
A small town south of Paris will transform into a photographers' paradise: part flea market, part festival, part pilgrimage
These 4 awe-inspiring photos show just what it takes to stand out amongst 10,000 images
NEWS These shortlisted images from the RPS exhibition reveal what separates good from great photography
Revisiting Dorothea Lange's lost Californian valley: 3,200 photos from an almost-forgotten 1950s project just went free online
News A Texan rainstorm killed one of the greatest photo essays you've never seen. Now you can download every frame, including the ones Lange chose not to publish
