Shooting from the hip without looking through the viewfinder is a foundational discipline in street photography. New York photographer Joe Wigfall turned this practice into his signature working method. He walks through the crowds of Manhattan with his camera suspended at chest level, capturing frames continuously with...
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The Ihagee Exa 1 simplified 35 mm SLR engineering in Dresden by turning its reflex mirror into the shutter gate itself. This mechanical solution lowered production costs compared to the celebrated Kine Exakta popularized by Alfred Hitchcock in Rear Window and used by Josef Koudelka to document the invasion of Prague, b...
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In March 1993, South African photojournalist Kevin Carter captured in the Sudanese village of Ayod the image of an emaciated child collapsed on the earth while a vulture waited a few meters away. For documentary photography, that record with a Nikon camera became a harrowing symbol of the famine in Africa. At the same...
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In 2008, Annie Leibovitz photographed Sean Connery on a dock near his home in the Bahamas for Louis Vuitton's Core Values campaign. The portrait appears to capture a moment of rest, but the behind-the-scenes footage reveals a precise production that turned the actor's biography into part of the advertising message.No e...
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The Nikon D80 turns 20 years old after its August 2006 introduction, and it is back in conversations about the so-called “CCD look”. The camera matters less as a nostalgic object than as a concrete way to see what changed when digital photography gained comfort, speed and room for error.On paper, the D80 cannot compete...
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There is a part of photography that often stays out of the conversation. It is not the camera. It is not the lens. It is the moment when we get home, open the photos and have to turn a good intention into a finished image.The video that accompanies this post starts from that point. It is not only about the launch of a...
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There are outings where the photo does not appear right away. You arrive with a vague idea, look at the place, try a path and realize that the image was not where it seemed to be. It was hidden in an angle, in a sound, in a distance or in a small detail that did not draw attention at first.That was the most interesting...
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The phone is no longer an emergency camera. For many photos, it is the main camera. It is always with us, processes quickly and delivers images that are ready to share.That point does not need defending. A modern phone can handle travel, family, social media, visual notes, memories and even simple jobs. The problem app...
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In a world where the most influential hardware builds robots and artificial intelligence, an instant camera put Fujifilm among the 10 most important companies on the planet.Every year, TIME magazine publishes a list of the 100 companies most changing the world. In 2026, among companies making artificial intelligence ch...
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Yosemite Valley, California · Nikon D40x · 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 · July 2008Some photos remind you why you started shooting in the first place. Not because of the technical details. Because of what you felt when you pressed the shutter.The author of this story arrived at Yosemite one July day in 2008 carrying a Nikon D40x...
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