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200 years of Scottish photographic history celebrated, as Royal Scottish Academy throws bicentennial birthday bonanza exhibition

By Alan Palazon Published

News The Royal Scottish Academy will celebrate its second century with a photography exhibition including works from the 18th century to the modern day from some 120 artists

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Alien world of photomicrography displayed at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum celebrates 101 years of Nikon microscopes

By Mike Harris Published

News Nikon’s been making microscopes for over a century, now you can visit an exhibition that explores both its history and modern photomicrography masterpieces

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Most photographers visiting Cuba's capital focus on the Chevys and cigars. David Saxe took a very different approach: going after the blur, the shadows and the things nobody poses for

By Tom May Published

News Cuba es Vida trades postcard shots for grain, darkness and imperfection, and it's a useful lesson for every photographer

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Three portraits: a woman with short dark hair and glasses crosses her arms; a woman with curly orange hair and small horns looks up; a black-and-white image of a woman lighting a cigarette.
What does it take to take a truly great celebrity portrait? From shooting Amy Winehouse to Yoko Ono, photographer Jillian Edelstein has spent a career finding out

By Tom May Published

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

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A large sign reading "I am an American" hangs in the window of a shuttered Oakland grocery store the day after Pearl Harbor, as a 1940s car sits in the foreground.
From the Great Depression to Japanese-American internment, Dorothea Lange's camera bore witness to some of the darkest moments in US history

By Tom May Published

NEWS A forthcoming retrospective celebrates one of the most morally urgent photographers of the 20th century

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Two men in long coats and boots pull a large metal tub across a grassy hillside to transport a sick ram, while several other sheep watch from the background.
James Ravilious and Chris Chapman spent 50 years photographing farms, weddings and village halls in the same corner of rural England – yet neither ever saw the other as competition

By Tom May Published

Their work highlights how great documentary photography comes from patience, trust and staying in one place

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Black and white photograph of a woman pushing a pram along a bleak industrial road, with factory chimneys smoking in the background.
This new gothic-themed exhibition has a lot to teach photographers about making the ordinary feel unsettling

By Tom May Published

NEWS Featuring work by Martin Parr, Don McCullin and Jo Spence, 'Dark Tales' highlights how documentary work can make the everyday feel gothic, without ever staging a scare

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A polar bear leaps between ice floes over open water, its leaping form perfectly mirrored in the still surface below.
This gorgeous photo of a polar bear bounding across the ice offers a masterclass in deciding whether to shoot in color or black-and-white

By Tom May Published

NEWS Sue Flood and Ian Dawson's new exhibition, Midnight Sun, follows a logic that every photographer should study

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A black and white photograph of a nude woman reclining on a leather sofa in high heels, holding a lit cigarette.
Two decades after the photographer's death, this new exhibition of Bob Carlos Clarke's photos shows why his most confrontational images were never accidents, but carefully built collaborations

By Tom May Published

News An anniversary show at London's Atlas Gallery puts the process behind the provocation on full display.

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A side-by-side composite showing a Jean Shrimpton contact sheet marked up in red and yellow grease pencil on the left, and a Mick Jagger contact sheet marked in red and blue on the right.
How David Bailey's photos turned Mick Jagger and Michael Caine into 1960s design icons – never-before-seen contact sheets behind Box of Pin-Ups go on sale

By Tom May Published

News On sale now: 36 never-before-seen sheets from the sittings that produced one of photography's most influential portfolios

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