Latest articles by Tom May
How Martin Parr spent five decades photographing the climate crisis – without even realizing
NEWS A new Paris retrospective reinterprets the late photographer's work as environmental unravelling
200 unpublished Sophia Loren portraits teach us the importance of trust between photographers and their subjects
News A Life magazine photographer's decades-long access to the Hollywood icons offers lessons for today's image-saturated world
These new AI smart glasses could actually make sense for photographers (and they're cheaper than RayBans)
CES 2026 You get 10 minutes of video recording, triple-format capture for social platforms, and prescription lenses as standard
This flip-open food camera uses AI to track everything you eat (but it is not meant for foodporn)
CES 2026 Amazfit's V1TAL Food Camera raises questions about where cameras belong in daily life
The best slide viewers in 2026: the easy way to rediscover your old slides
Buying guide Whether you wish to view old pictures or are shooting on film afresh today, these are the best slide viewers
The best microscope in 2026: Perfect for students, kids and photographers
Buying guide Explore inner space, educate your children, and shoot macro images with the best microscopes
Honor just reinvented the camera phone! But will this tempt you away from Apple?
CES The Robot Phone packs in a three-axis gimbal, potentially replacing thousands of dollars worth of stabilization gear.
This new foldable phone could be a game changer for photographers
CES 2026 Stylus support on a foldable sounds super-useful, right?
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency: why Nan Goldin's flash-lit photo essay on intimacy still resonates in 2026
news The genre-defining photobook gets its first complete UK showing, 40 years after it changed photography forever
France set to stage a year-long celebration to mark 200 years of photography in 2026
News Major exhibitions and commissions will honor Nicéphore Niépce's invention and explore photography's evolution from 1826 to today.
Yes, this IS a photograph! How a double exposure turned a water strider into an award-worthy work of art
NEWS Anirudh Kamakeri's creative use of this sophisticated technique earned him Special Mention from the Nature in Focus awards
Richard Avedon's American West: what today's portrait photographers can still learn from this classic series
This 1979 documentary project remains a masterclass in environmental portraiture and authentic storytelling.
When Torchlight Meets Tusks: this hauntingly beautiful photo casts new light on the relationship between man and beast
NEWS Ramprasad Dutta's incredible photograph earned Special Mention at this year's Nature in Focus awards
These are the best photography awards to enter in 2026, ranked by submission deadline
You can't get recognition if you don't submit, right?
In Memoriam: the brilliant photographers we sadly lost in 2025
It's been a year of loss for the photographic community, from technical pioneers to Magnum legends.
These are the pictures Martin Parr planned to show at the Pearly Gates
A new exhibition reminds us how one photographer rewrote the rules of documentary photography.
How AI changed everything for photographers and videographers in 2025
2025 IN REVIEW This was the year that the future arrived – on set, in the edit suite and in your camera bag
Adobe in 2025: The year that photography (and photographers) became raw material for brands
2025 REVIEW While photographers were lured by AI features, Adobe quietly repositioned them as suppliers in a broader content economy
Why removing color made this photograph of a well-known desert landscape more powerful than ever
NEWS Dave Drost's minimalist, monochrome approach transformed a familiar location into something extraordinary
When Leicas sell for millions, you're not buying a camera – you're buying immortality!
A rare prototype and a gift to the Pope earned €13.7m at auction in Leica's centenary year, proving collectors will pay anything for the right story.
A real tree, a real sky… but this amazing photo feels like it was taken on another planet!
NEWS Benjamin Barakat’s award-winning astrophotograph reveals Socotra’s surreal bottle tree beneath a pristine Milky Way
The best memory card readers: copy images and video to your computer
Buying Guide These are the best memory card readers to supercharge your SD, CFexpress & CompactFlash memory card image transfers
Mushrooms, mist and a 16mm gamble: here's what happened when photographer Albert Dross went ultra-wide and ultra-low with his camera
NEWS An extreme low angle, a 16mm lens and meticulous focus stacking turned forest fungi into a glowing, otherworldly scene.
