Latest articles by Tom May
Buying guide Store gigabytes of photos and videos with the best external hard drives for photographers
Buying guide Edit and organize your images and video with the best iPads available today
NEWS This Ocean Photographer of the Year finalist image looks meticulously staged. It wasn't
NEWS A new exhibition sees world-class photographers turning rivers, mountains and ice into studies of a warming planet
NEWS Little known and long uncredited, she may have been the first photographer to use a camera to stop human rights abuses
Buying Guide Make eye contact using the best teleprompters when shooting with your camera, phone or tablet
NEWS How do you judge an image from a war against an image of a goat? Leica's 2026 shortlist puts them on the same page.
Opinion A prestigious prize just got tangled in a bloody war, and now the rules about who can enter contests no longer seem clear
Updated A 21:9 ratio or wider gives you space to see a lot more at once
NEWS A new monograph traces a fashion career based on catching genuine movement rather than staged poses
NEWS A new book from veteran press photographer Greg Brennan reminds us that the story people tell about a photo can matter as much as the photo itself
Buying guide Ditch the grainy, badly lit picture your laptop gives you on every call, with a dedicated webcam built for looking your best
Buying Guide Perfect for teaching, presentations, pitches and more, these are the best document cameras available today.
News Cuba es Vida trades postcard shots for grain, darkness and imperfection, and it's a useful lesson for every photographer
NEWS Want to find the human truth behind your subject's mask? Here's a great example to follow, now in the spotlight of a new exhibition
Updated Check for health problems in your own ears, your family's and your pets, with the best otoscopes
Buying Guide Want to take pictures with a tablet? We round up the best tablet cameras on the market today
Book This one-off print run, built from decades of shooting, is an unspoken rebuke to our location-hopping Insta culture.
Behind the photo This shot from the Presence touring show proves that the most powerful documentary image isn't always the closest
Buying Guide The best MacBook chargers are lighter than Apple's official ones, and often cheaper too!
Buying Guide Avoid RSI and work faster, with the best keyboards for video editing
NEWS A forthcoming retrospective celebrates one of the most morally urgent photographers of the 20th century
News It captures one of Britain's most culturally significant musicians in a moment that feels unusually intimate
