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The Guardian PhotographyCulture‘He was making history, not copying it’: the greatest Gordon Parks photographs As a new exhibition celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Gordon Parks Foundation, those who knew him discuss his most powerful images Gordon Parks was not only a renowned photographer but also a…

September 18

The Guardian PhotographyCultureFire, ice and family: Australia’s 2026 Bowness photography prize – in pictures Here are 26 images by the shortlisted artists who submitted works for the 21st William and Winifred Bowness photography prize. Tamara Dean has been named the winner.

September 17

The Guardian PhotographyCultureA naked performance artist in the garden with her mum: Rona Bar and Ofek Avshalom’s best photograph ‘Lois and her mother Carey are artists and their house is full of art, which seems to spill out of them.

September 16

The Guardian PhotographyCultureIn black and white: the 2026 Mono photography awards – in pictures The Mono awards celebrate the best black and white images chosen from more than 3,000 entries from Australia, New Zealand and around the world.

September 16

The Guardian PhotographyCulture‘We weren’t shy. We were queers in leather!’ Sunil Gupta on his momentous photographs of gay life From Delhi to New York, from the street to the bath house, he has captured clandestine moments, risked his freedom – and even referenced Romantic painters.

September 16

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