Exploring & Celebrating Photography


Top 10 • Documentary

Top 10 photography documentaries

Over the years, filmmakers, writers, and directors have focused their attention on those fascinating and often enigmatic individuals who have helped shape the very foundations of photography as we know it today.

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Barry Crosthwaite
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Exhibition • Photography

Les Rencontres d’Arles 2025

Les Rencontres d’Arles, the world’s leading multi-venue photography festival, returns this summer for its 56th edition.

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Editorial • Travel

Photography and The American Road Trip

Road trips have long shaped American photography, offering a lens on both continuity and change. As a genre, “road trip” photography spans joy rides, visual poetry, politics, and self-discovery—driven by a deep, westward longing for freedom and reinvention.

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