Exploring & Celebrating Photography


Editorial • Photography

Photography and Solitude

Photography and Solitude – Alone with a camera, the photographer's existence is a solitary one. Though they may engage with their subjects and surroundings, much of the work in documentary and street photography demands patience, silence, and observation. A practice best suited for the wanderer.

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color portrait photo of geisha in Japan by Anoush Abrar
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Book Review • Documentary

Laura El-Tantawy:
In The Shadow of The Pyramids

The work of Laura El-Tantawy lays on the cusp of an explosive temperament, a time of great change in Egypt, and narrates life as the Egyptian people reclaimed their nation.

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Profile • Street

Daido Moriyama’s Tokyo

Moriyama has spent his career traversing the streets of Japanese cities with a small compact Ricoh camera, producing high contrast, often blurry images which convey a sensation of movement and franticness that is immediately distinctive.

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