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Reflections on Covering Thailand’s Mass Shooting
By Yvan Cohen On the afternoon of October 6th, I got a call offering me a filming assignment…
6 Interesting Pros and Cons of Smartphones vs Cameras
By Yvan Cohen Digital technology and the inclusion of cameras in smartphones has changed how we think about…
5 Reasons to Love Traditional Film Photography
By Yavn Cohen Is film better than digital? No sooner are the words uttered than I can hear…
How photography has shifted our perspective of war
By Katya Mulvaney I have little doubt that many of you will have felt some degree of emotion…
Top 10 Portrait Photographers of All Time
By Katya Mulvaney Portraiture is largely defined as a style of photography focused on capturing a subject’s face…
Do NFTs Signal a New Future for Stock Photography?
By Yvan Cohen For years photographers have been complaining about declining fees for stock photography. We’ve already written…
Are Free Images Killing Photography?
By Yvan Cohen In the ‘good old days’ when we all used film, photography was the preserve of…
Steve McCurry’s Afghan Girl – An Icon Shrouded in Questions
Published on the cover of National Geographic in 1985, Steve McCurry’s image of a 12-year-old Afghan refugee girl,…
Should Today’s Photographers be Videographers too?
Convergence is the byword of our age: typewriters have become personal computers. The humble phone has become a…
Slow Photography: In Praise of the Print
Not so long ago, to take a photo was to always imagine an image expressed in printed form.…