Recent Articles

Have you seen Elliott Erwitt's walking stick?
Celebrated photographer collaborates with Milan designers Danese on old school yet innovative walking aid
Published: Friday, 19 April 2013
How the 1962 monsoons inspired Steve McCurry
Forthcoming book, Steve McCurry Untold: The Stories Behind The Photographs, tells how coverage of the Indian rainy season in Life magazine set the Magnum photographer off on a life of photography and far flung travel
Published: Wednesday, 17 April 2013
René Burri's Impossible Reminiscences #4
The view from a war torn Beirut window, the cost of 'man's progress' and a wry tale concerning William Tell - all taken from his brilliant new book of previously unpublished colour photography, Impossible Reminiscences
Published: Monday, 15 April 2013
What's happening in Bence Bakonyi's photographs?
The Hungarian photographer spent six months in China and came back with these uncanny, ambiguous images
Published: Thursday, 11 April 2013
How to photograph North Korea
Brussels-based photographer Maxime Delvaux spends 12 days in The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, shooting the kind of photographs his guards allowed
Published: Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Danny Lyon's China
The veteran civil rights photographer reveals more of his shots from Shanxi, northern China, online
Published: Tuesday, 2 April 2013
When Google goes wrong
Clement Valla searches through internet giant's Maps' algorithms to find the point where concept meets reality
Published: Thursday, 21 March 2013
Catch Mike Brodie's incredible train-hopping photos
Inspired by Steve McCurry's portraits, Brodie rode the rails for four years, shooting pictures of the people he met
Published: Tuesday, 12 March 2013
René Burri's Impossible Reminiscences
The legendary Swiss Magnum photographer on pretending to be a North Korean spy, sneaking into the Mexico Olympics and 'losing' a Picasso in a Zurich bar - all taken from our forthcoming book, Impossible Reminiscences
Published: Friday, 8 March 2013
The New Landscapes of Yao Lu
The Prix Pictet-shortlisted photographer's work brings to mind the Japanese master Hokusai - but look again
Published: Friday, 8 March 2013
Joel Meyerowitz shooting on Fifth Ave in 1982
Watch Michael Engler's 30-year-old video footage of one of our favourite street photographers at work in NYC
Published: Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Benny Lam photographs life in a shoebox
Hong Kong is famous for its busy streets and towering skyscrapers, but where do all the people actually live?
Published: Tuesday, 5 March 2013
How postcards pushed Stephen Shore towards colour
Unearthed interview examines how the great American photographer ditched monochrome and took to colour
Published: Thursday, 28 February 2013
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