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Snowy mountains under a vibrant, starry sky with the Milky Way arching overhead. A glowing tent sits to the right, creating a sense of solitude and wonder

Award-winning Milky Way photo above Aoraki "became one of the most demanding challenges I had set for myself," says photographer

By Kim Bunermann published

winner The photographer navigated steep, rocky terrain and snow-covered slopes under winter conditions to capture this Milky Way photograph

winner
'Camera Obsolete?' is a participatory installation and major public exhibition confronting the collapse of photography’s mechanical era. Conceived and produced by Belfast Photo Festival, audiences are invited to destroy, dismantle, repair or recast obsolete cameras into new sculptural forms. Part participation, part spectacle and part material transformation, the exhibition forces questions of authorship, truth and the erosion of photography as a physical, tangible medium. (Toby Smith / Belfast Photo Festival)

This controversial exhibition lets you destroy cameras – but it’s only possible because of the frightening rate of tech churn

By Alan Palazon published

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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Opinion
Jakub Bors explains how to get great shots in the desert like this

Want to shoot stunning shots like this? Here's how to photograph stunning sandscapes on your travels

By Digital Camera published

Tutorial Travel photography tips when exploring the Sahara desert

Tutorial
Lightroom Classic Lens Blur cheat sheet

Cheat sheet: Lightroom Classic's Lens Blur tool and how it works

By Rod Lawton published

Cheat sheet Can you really simulate bokeh effects digitally? Lightroom's Lens Blur tool is about as good as it gets right now

Cheat sheet
A child in red traditional costume with bright pink face makeup and decorated headdress gazes at her reflection in a mirror surrounded by elaborate props.

Chris Yan's photo series about a Chinese New Year festival is a masterclass in using color and framing to evoke meaning

By Tom May published

This Beijing photographer documents Shehuo traditions with commercial expertise and visual precision

Travel Photography
June 9, 2017 - The rising full moon of June, dubbed the Strawberry Moon, as seen rising over a prairie pond in southern Alberta, Canada. At right, the glitter path from the moon also combines on the water. This illustrates the effect of the moon brightening and becoming less red/yellow as it rises into clearer air above the horizon, with less atmospheric absorption of the short wavelengths.

Astrophotography in June 2026: get your camera ready to photograph the moon and the stars this month

By Jamie Carter published

Astrophotography Everything you need to know about what’s worth photographing in the night skies over the coming month

Astrophotography
Bookburning at the Opernplatz in Berlin. During the campaign "against the un-German spirit" Dr. Josef Goebels speaks to members of student organisations. Photography. Germany. 1933.

This eerie photograph of the 1933 Nazi book-burning images demonstrates the importance of shutter speed in a terrifying way

By Alan Palazon published

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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HISTORY
Tony McGee picture of David Bowie and Tony McGee by his studio

Photographing David Bowie: "He'd built up all the evidence. So then I had to destroy them…"

By Ariane Sherine Juniper published

News Six photographers reveal what it was like to shoot David Bowie, the most image-conscious star of all time, sharing fascinating personal insights

News
Man with one arm stood in abandoned factory.

These award-winning photos pull on all the heartstrings in the most nostalgic way

By Alan Palazon published

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

News
Aperture of f/4.8 meant very little depth of field

This stunning abstract photography trick uses a secret ingredient that's hiding in your childhood toy box

By Wendy Evans published

HOW TO Don't lose your marbles! Discover how to create an abstract macro shot with nothing more than a few glass balls and colored paper

HOW TO
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