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Magnum PhotosCultureMemleket, Emin Özmen’s 15-Year Portrait of Turkey The upcoming photobook sees the photographer return to depictions of his homeland, this time to present the poetry of the everyday

September 18

Magnum PhotosCultureRemembering Ian Berry (1934–2026) Honoring the life of Magnum photographer Ian Berry, who passed away on September 13, 2026, at the age of 92

September 16

Magnum PhotosCulture9/11: Stories from Magnum Photographers Magnum photographers recall how they documented the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 25 years ago

September 9

Magnum PhotosCultureGet Started in Photography Magnum Photos and MPB share a free, online beginner’s guide to photography to help students learn the basics and embrace the freedom of new ways of seeing

September 8

Magnum PhotosCultureLorenzo Meloni: We Don’t Say Goodbye Lorenzo Meloni's first monograph, published in 2022, gathers almost a decade of work in the Middle East and North Africa around the rise and fall of the Islamic…

September 4

Magnum PhotosCultureSignature Drop #005: Herbert List x Zied Ben Romdhane The Herbert List Estate and Zied Ben Romdhane present time-limited pairings of work inspired by the Magnum Gallery exhibition, Under the Same Sun

September 3

Magnum PhotosCultureThree Teens: Alec Soth’s Portrait of Youth in Minneapolis Soth documents the lives of teenagers who attend a high school near his studio in Minneapolis

August 28

Magnum PhotosCultureMagnum Book Club: Generation Z Magnum Book Club takes a closer look at the latest edition of Magnum Chronicles, a global portrait of Generation Z

August 14

Magnum PhotosCultureGeneration Z: Cristina De Middel in Bahia, Brazil For the second edition of Magnum Chronicles, the cooperative’s photographers work collaboratively with young people around the world to paint a global portrait of Generation…

August 14

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