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Beauty And The Banal

Head of photographs Phil Prodger explains how William Eggleston used colour experimentally as the National Portrait Gallery opens the largest display of his portrait photography ever seen.

The Art Of The Incomplete

Amélie Labourdette’s work documents eerie, grey skeletons of unfinished buildings. Her images are a comment on how we inhabit the world, but they’ve also become pieces of art in their own right – and a hint at what might happen to us all in the future.

The Photographer's Guide to SEO

Discover how to get your photography website high in Google’s rankings

The Royal Treatment

Press photographer and agency head Joe Sene discusses the challenge of capturing iconic news moments, and how switching to Olympus has been a true game changer for him

Joanna Millington

The Norwich-based photographer is on a mission to revive the art of the traditional portrait in the age of the throwaway selfie

World Press Photo 2018 Gallery

In the world of 2018, photojournalism is more important than ever. From the aftermath of an ISIS car bomb to delicate meditations on our relationship with the planet, the annual World Press Photo of the Year contest celebrates and honours the industry’s finest. We present a selection of our favourite images from among this year’s winners. 

Modern-day Daguerreotypes

Jerry Spagnoli has resurrected one of the oldest mediums in photography and adapted it to suit a contemporary clientele. Now museums are starting to pay attention

Something Really Wonderful Is Going On

A seagull is suspended, sunlit and spread-winged against a lowering sky. Men unknown to each other march together as if advancing on an unseen enemy. A woman with polished shoes searches through a large, pale handbag. Young girls in matching dresses look to be fleeing impending disaster. Eamonn Doyle shows us fragments of moments in a world of uncertainty and human frailty, with a unique and potentially devastating voice. A relative newcomer to the world of photobooks and photography galleries, he has become a powerful force in the art photography world since 2012.

Share Your Photography, Support A Charity

A new photography competition for positive social change.

“With no whipped cream available, we ended up using mentholated shaving foam. Oh, does that sting the eyes!”

“With no whipped cream available, we ended up using mentholated shaving foam. Oh, does that sting the eyes!”

“Everything about his body language just reeked of Capote”

Richard Corman recalls how he summoned the spirit of Avedon to shoot Philip Seymour Hoffman for the Capote poster

FujiFilm X-T2

The Fuji X-T1 brought real class and style to the mirrorless camera market, and now the X-T2 adds speed and resolution.

Stephen Shore's Non-Peak Moments

It is exactly one week after the election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States of America. And from his New York home, Stephen Shore is looking down his computer at me, via the Skype feed that links us, deliberating over the words to express his reaction to the news. “This is going to be a very slow recovery, I think. All over the world it’s been a shock.” The sprightly, silver-haired Shore, who turns 70 this year, pauses for a moment and then neatly diverts the political headline to a subject still relevant to the discussion but of greater concern to him personally.

Carolina Mizrahi

Meet the Brazilian photographer whose work draws on her fashion background and questions how women are represented in today’s society.

“She Seemed Ok, But Who Knows How The Rest Of Her Night Panned Out”

A Sunday Times stalwart for nearly two decades, photojournalist Peter Dench has produced more than his fair share of honest, and at times startling imagery for the broadsheet, capturing the best and worst of contemporary Britain.

Secret Lives Of Cats

Daniel gebhart de koekkoek’s surreal set of photographs depict felines getting airborne in their unsuspecting humans’ homes.

What Makes A Photograph Legendary?

Commentators are debasing the term with unwarranted hyperbole

Webb Of Colour

Magnum photographer Alex Webb is best known for his colourful street photography, but his influences are wider than you might imagine, as he reveals in this exclusive interview.

She's Wearing A Bed Sheet But Makes It Look Like Dior

Vincent Peters wanted to do something “really cinematic” with Charlize Theron for GQ. Here he reveals how he went about it...

The Bomb Squad

If someone had told me I was going to spend a week with a bomb disposal team, I would never have believed them. I was really excited about the project, but I also thought, ‘This is dangerous, what the hell am I doing?’ I’m a mother with a little kid; something could go wrong. Cluster bombs are spread widely around the countryside, as are landmines. Once we even saw a ‘bombie’ rolling around in a school yard.

Sitting Pretty

“Nobody ever believes me when I say I’m just a Norfolk boy,” says Andy Gotts. Take one look at his celebrity portrait-filled website and it’s easy to see why. It views like a who’s who of Hollywood, featuring hundreds of famous faces. It isn’t, in short, a portfolio you’d believe began in King’s Lynn, with a portrait of Stephen Fry. But that’s just what happened, as Gotts explains here…

Is Arles The World Capital Of Photography?

Recontres de Arles director Sam Stourdzé and Matthieu Humery, director of the Living Archives programme, discuss the increasing importance of France’s annual photography festival

This Is My Brother. I Would Like You To See Him.

Justin Quail has schizophrenia. Big Brother is his younger brother Louis’ account of his recent life, one lived on the periphery of society. This project and recently published book says to the world: ‘This is my brother. I would like you to see him.’