Photography

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Architects.
Behind every beautiful building is an architect with vision and aspirations. This photographer reveals the creatives who build Britain

By Alan Palazon Published

News Timothy Soar’s exhibition, Reinventing Practice, highlights the people working to reshape the built environment, revealing the personalities and optimism behind the industry's response to environmental change

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A collage of three different food photos.
Struggle with imposter syndrome? Then this new photography award was designed for you!

By Alan Palazon Published

News The World Food Photography Awards will launch a suite of new prizes and educational initiatives for its 2027 contest, including an award for first-time entrants to the contest

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A lone cyclist beneath a concrete cathedral, a figure dwarfed by sweeping white curves and pigeons scattering across a vast tiled wall: Mark Fearnley's street photography captures the loneliness of the modern city

By Tom May Published

Book The former painter uses geometry, light and shadow to highlight solitary figures in vast urban spaces

Book
train in station at night with architecture and coloured lighting
Tips every photographer needs to know for shooting trains at night with impact

By Wendy Evans Published

Wendy Evans goes through the techniques required to shoot at train stations after dark when the challenge is low light but with bright highlights

Photo Technique
Dozens of glowing blue neurons against a black background, their teardrop-shaped cell bodies trailing long, thread-like branches that run vertically through the frame like a forest of tangled trees.
These glowing neurons might look like an alien forest at night, but this photo is actually letting you see inside a mouse’s brain

By Tom May Published

Two scientists swelled a sample of brain tissue to reveal its tangled wiring, and this incredible photograph is the result.

Awards and Competitions
Glowing blue bioluminescent fungi spread across a cave floor, with bats hanging from the rocky ceiling
For 13 years, this photographer has captured hibernating bats in protected, restricted-access mine tunnels in Hungary – now he's won one of Europe's most respected photo competitions

By Kim Bunermann Published

NEWS "This image speaks to a larger truth about the natural world: much of life exists beyond our immediate awareness, in places we seldom visit and among organisms we rarely notice," explains the European Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition

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Photographer Jerry Gay of Blaine, Wash., displays his 1975 Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of firemen resting after battling a house fire
He arrived at the scene of a house fire after the flames had already been extinguished. But photographer Jerry Gay turned his lens on firefighters instead – and won a Pulitzer

By Hillary K. Grigonis Published

NEWS Jerry Gay, a photographer who won a 1975 Pulitzer for a photograph of firefighters, has died at the age of 79

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Aerial view shows a man sailing in a canoe past Victoria amazonica plants in the Sao Sebastiao riverine community in Manacapuru, Amazonas state, Brazil
Jeremiah Harris was floating among giant lily pads in a Colombian lagoon, and saw the opportunity for an Instagram selfie. The shot didn't just get likes – it led to the discovery of a completely new species of waterlily!

By Tom May Published

News When the photo caught the eye of a Kew Gardens expert, it sparked a hunt that ended up identifying a rare giant waterlily

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Escaramuza.
This atmospheric photo shot on a medium-format film camera opens a window onto the identity, history and resilience of women in traditional Mexican-American horsemanship

By Alan Palazon Published

Photojournalism Constance Jaeggi O’Connor’s photo series Escaramuza, the Poetics of Home explores the cultural heritage and challenges faced by women practicing the equestrian tradition across the US

Photojournalism
Microscopic view of an inkjet printer depositing ink onto paper: water droplets and elongated drips on a reflective surface, casting dark shadows across the paper that looks like ice
This award-winning image reveals a never-before-seen view of an inkjet printer at work – here's how the experimental macro photographer captured it

By Kim Bunermann Published

NEWS The young German photographer has won a major award for using a microscope objective in an unconventional way, transforming an everyday process into an otherworldly image

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