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A young man crying for his dead mother in Haiti
© Maggie Steber

Profile • Documentary

Maggie Steber

Judge of our 2026 Open Call Award (now open for entries), American photographer Maggie Steber has dedicated her life to capturing human stories with remarkable sensitivity and insight.w

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Color landscape photo by Spiros Dimas
© Spiros Dimas
Color photography by Raymond Depardon. A boy blows purple bubble gum while other children play on a shadowed street in Glasgow
© Raymond Depardon

Profile • Black & White

Raymond Depardon: The Roving Eye

Few photographers have observed the world with the patient moral attention of Raymond Depardon. Across continents, conflicts, and generations, he has captured lives with a quiet rigor: images that are never sensational, never performative, but insist upon being seen.

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Black & white landscape photography by Ansel Adams. Clouds above a snow, capped valley and forests in Yosemite National Park, USA
© The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.

Profile • Landscape

Ansel Adams

In the long and storied history of landscape photography, one name stands apart: Ansel Adams. Sometimes called “the godfather of landscape photography,” the American was a visionary who helped shape the foundations of the genre as we know it today.

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