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 "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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News This drone image was a runner-up in the most recent Travel Photographer of the Year Awards, and we can all learn from its mesmerizing blend of shapes and complementary colors

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News Researchers discovered the octopus 1.8km below the shores of the Galápagos Islands in 2015, but are still figuring out exactly what this intriguing species is

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News The winning photo of this year’s Evident Image of the Year Award, a microscopic photography contest, has revealed mesmerizing similarities between the microscopic world and the cosmos

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News Researchers used underwater cameras to film critically endangered Mediterranean monk seals, with the footage revealing the pinnipeds hiding out in flooded “bubble caves” away from humans

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Opinion There’s a sea of photos online of tourists posing with captive tigers at a zoo, raising questions about animal welfare at these venues

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News Beneath the Surface is the first ever exhibition to reveal the hidden relationship between how photographers, often working in demanding conditions, have documented US industrial resource extraction

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News The extensive collection includes some 15,000 prints and 50,000 negatives created by Webb, best known for documenting post-WWII New York and Paris

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Opinion The Kodak PixPro FZ55 is nifty little camera, but I’d personally invest an extra couple of hundred for slightly better exposure metering and color rendering

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News In his new book, photographer Mac Stone documents ecological havens in the southeastern US, highlighting their photogenic beauty but also the increasing threats from human encroachment

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Opinion I’d love to have Sony’s updated 100-400mm G Master OSS in my arsenal, but I’m not convinced the constant aperture is worth the price and weight

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News Some 130 women photographers have pictured over 250 women members of parliament in an ongoing monumental effort to document record 40% women representation in Westminster

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Opinion Tiger safaris in India are banning smartphones, but unless restrictions limit tourist numbers and distances from animals – then "real photographers" may also be part of the issues at hand

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News The newborn greater one-horned rhino was filmed by rangers in Jaldapara National Park, India, and is a testament to the ongoing conservation efforts

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Opinion Sigma recently displayed a prototype of its forthcoming DG Art 85mm f/1.2 lens at the China P&E trade show, but I think Viltrox is starting to put real pressure on
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