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LensCultureCultureA Kind of Paradise – Colonial-Era Photography Twenty international artists working with archival images come together to form a polyphonic reinterpretation of history, drawing out stories of belonging and identity that resist colonial-era…

LensCultureCultureDescendants of Summer Beneath Bermuda’s image of paradise, Nicola Muirhead uncovers a complex inheritance of slavery, migration, resilience and community carried across generations.

LensCultureCultureMy Mother Doesn’t Work: Motherhood and Invisible Labor in Pictures What does it mean to “not work” when your days are consumed by keeping a family and household together? Olga Steinepreis answers with wit, surrealism and a camera.

LensCultureCultureL’Artiere Edizioni: Photobooks as Collectible Art Objects L’Artiere Edizioni’s Gianluca Gamberini talks about collaboration, experimentation and the magic of transforming a body of photographs into a book with a life of its own.

LensCultureCulture11 Great Photography Podcasts You Should Know Looking for the best photography podcasts? These 11 standout shows bring you closer to the photographers, ideas and stories shaping the medium today.

LensCultureCultureAlex Yudzon’s “5 Garfield Avenue” Turns Suburban America into a Horror Story Created during a brief relocation from the New York City, displacement and domestic unease haunt the photographs in Alex Yudzon’s monochrome portrait of a house in rural Connecticut.

LensCultureCultureThe Global Guide to Photobook Fairs: 70+ Events Around the World From major international festivals to independent publishing gatherings, discover more than 70 photobook fairs connecting photographers, publishers, collectors and book lovers worldwide.

LensCultureCultureNazraeli Press: Interview with Photobook Publisher Chris Pichler Nazraeli Press founder Chris Pichler reflects on four decades of publishing, the enduring power of photobooks, and what makes a project worthy of becoming a book.

LensCultureCultureRefusal. Second Fracture Through images, murals, objects and videos, Rafał Milach’s new exhibition connects propaganda and protest, asking how the region’s political structures might be challenged.

LensCultureCulturePhotography, Still Restless: Les Rencontres d’Arles Festival 2026 Preview This sprawling, thought-provoking photo festival interrogates the boundary-breaking power of the image as the medium approaches its 200th birthday.

LensCultureCultureLensCulture: Distinct Voices Celebrating Pride In honor of Pride Month, we are highlighting a handful of features that are rooted in identity, queerness, and self expression.

LensCultureCultureIn Visible Light: Cinematic Street Photography from Australia A conversation with Sam Ferris about atmospheric street photography, urban solitude, and how light transforms ordinary city scenes into extraordinary moments.

LensCultureCultureReflecting New York - A Brilliant Twist on Street Photography Using a hand-held mirror, and his very sharp eyes, photographer Stefan Falke allows us to see street scenes from New York we’ve never seen before.

LensCultureCultureAbsent Presences - Poetic Images from the Streets These street photographs all express a playful sensitivity to visual ideas echoed in momentary scenes.

LensCultureCultureHomo Faber and Divine Providence Camera in hand, Swiss photographer Matthias Forster sets out to find moments of tension, surprise, and humor in the landscapes we often overlook.

LensCultureCultureThe Waves Came in Like Horses Through layered composites of landscapes, negatives, and organic forms, Stephanie O’Connor creates chimeric images that blur boundaries between self and other — capturing the uncanny sensations of…

LensCultureCultureYou Can’t Enter the Same River Twice In striking and luminous black and white images, Francisco Gonzalez Camacho conjures landscapes alive in transformation to reflect the experience of rerooting in another country.

LensCultureCultureCharacters — Subtle Street Photography from Taiwan Candid photographs of people taking short breaks far from the chaos of the bustling urban activity in Taipei’s Wanhua District.

LensCultureCulture21st Century Street Photography: 250 New Examples Street photography connects us with humanity in all its forms, and in turn, allows us to be and feel more human in our day to day lives—here are many, many inspiring examples from cultures around the…

LensCultureCultureOracle In her tender portrayal of desert life in Arizona, Andrea Koester records her evolving relationship to the people, plants and animals that make up its rich ecosystem.

LensCultureCultureUnknown Ancestors In a search for a past left largely unphotographed, Patricia Howard looks to land, material, and process, creating a body of work shaped as much by what is missing as what remains.

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo