When you’re struggling with your landscape photography, you might want to consider getting best back to basics and focus on what’s simple. That advice comes via a new video from First Man Photography. The video is a new 15-minute reminder of the foundations on which landscape photography is built. Read the full Story >>
Is Peter Robertson the world’s greatest soccer photographer? It could well be, declares The Athletic. He has shot 13 men’s World Cups, nine Olympic Games and thousands of other matches, and his work has appeared in dozens magazines. Among the icons he’s photographed: Pele, Maradona, and Messi. Meanwhile, Robinson’s own book of football photographs, Football Days, is widely considered to be the definitive work of the genre. “I’m looking for confrontation,” he says. Read the full Story >>
As film continues to develop, it’s bound to get sharper, and, notes The Phoblographer, the “film look” —softer, often more flattering for portraiture—is going to fade away. Manufacturers will tell us we should use UV filters to soften the look. But consumers are bound to not buy the film, and we’ll be in a massive problematic circle. The fear, adds TP, is that film photography will eventually reach the level of clinical staleness of digital photography. Read the full Story >>
What will people be looking for in spring 2022 photo books? AnOther makes a few selections—11 of them, actually. The website’s list includes Feeling Seen by Campbell Addy, which brings together the hot photographer’s celebrity and personal images (see also: The New York Times) and I’d like to get to know you by Francesca Allen, an intimate view of sisterhood (see our post). There’s also the reissue of Joel Meyerowitz’s Redheads (see our post) and Photographs 1978–2015 by Judith Joy Ross (see this post.) Read the full Story >>
