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121clicksIndiaGuruShots Winning Images from their ‘Mostly White’ Photo Challenge We teamed up again with the world’s leading photo game GuruShots to showcase the winning images from the Mostly White challenge.

121clicksIndiaThe Poetry of Solitude: 33 Oil Paintings by Dan LaVigne That Reveal the Quiet Side of Loneliness Some paintings ask you to admire the skill. Dan LaVigne’s work asks you to stay a little longer.

121clicksIndia38 Remarkable Winning Photos From the 2026 Prix de la Photographie That Celebrate Artistic Vision Photography has a beautiful way of making us pause, look closer, and see the world from an entirely different perspective.

121clicksIndiaThe Extraordinary World of Bogdan Dziworski: A Master of Cinematic Street Photography Some photographers capture what they see. Others have an uncanny ability to transform ordinary moments into something extraordinary.

121clicksIndiaThe World From Above: 35 Unforgettable Winners From the 2026 Siena Drone Photo Awards Sometimes, all it takes is a change in perspective to see the world in a completely different light. From mesmerizing landscapes and winding coastlines to busy cities and fascinating natural…

121clicksIndiaHow to Capture Silhouette Photography: 40 Inspiring Examples to Learn From There’s something magical about a photo that tells a story without showing a single face or detail. A silhouette against a sunset, a bird in a golden sky, or two people holding hands by a lake such…

121clicksIndiaBeyond the Horizon: 36 Outstanding Winners From the 2026 Epson International Pano Awards There’s something magical about a panoramic photograph . It pulls you into a scene, stretches your imagination, and reveals details that a regular frame might easily miss.

121clicksIndiaPure Joy: 35 Photos Of Street Cats By Marcel Heijnen Prove That Every Place Is Their Kingdom Cats have a knack for turning any corner into their own kingdom. One minute, they’re holding court on a shop counter; the next, they’re curled up beside market goods or watching the…

121clicksIndiaCapturing Humanity: Award-Winning Photographer France Leclerc Explores Life Around the World What makes a photograph truly unforgettable? Sometimes, it’s not a breathtaking landscape or a perfectly staged portrait. It’s a fleeting human moment that tells a story without saying a single word.

121clicksIndiaGuruShots Winning Images from their ‘Travel Wonders’ Photo Challenge We teamed up again with the world’s leading photo game GuruShots to showcase the winning images from the Travel Wonders challenge.

121clicksIndia25 Award-Winning Street Photos From the AAP Magazine Awards 2026 Street photography has a special way of turning ordinary moments into something unforgettable. A stranger’s glance, a crowded intersection, or a quiet encounter on a city sidewalk can tell a…

121clicksIndiaWillem van de Poll: The Master Photographer Who Captured a Changing World Some photographers capture a moment. Others capture an entire era. Willem van de Poll was one of the latter.

121clicksIndiaHow Photographer Ziqian Liu Creates Surreal Images Using Everyday Objects and Reflections Some photos will have you stopping scrolling for a second. Others will have you looking at them a second time because you’re not quite sure what you’re seeing.

121clicksIndia25 Remarkable Photos From the 2026 BIAZA Photo Competition Celebrate Animals in British and Irish Zoos Wildlife photography has a way of making us stop scrolling and take a closer look at the incredible creatures sharing our planet.

121clicksIndiaWhere Photography Meets Painting: 33 Dreamlike Artworks by Nadia Attura Some artists capture the world exactly as they see it. Others take those familiar sights and turn them into something that feels like a half-remembered dream.

121clicksIndiaNature’s Hidden Wonders: 34 Winning Photos From the GDT European Wildlife Photography Awards 2026 Nature tells stories that words alone can’t capture. Sometimes, it’s a tiny fungus glowing in the darkness; other times, it’s a wild animal caught in a fleeting moment or a…

121clicksIndiaPoetry on Paper: 35 Dreamy Watercolor Paintings Filled With Emotion and Beauty There’s something quite magical about watercolor. A bit of water, a few drops of color and a brush in the right hands and you can take a fairly ordinary scene and turn it into something that really…

121clicksIndiaCaught on Camera: 38 Perfectly Timed Photos That Look Photoshopped But Are 100% Real Have you ever looked at a picture and thought "how the hell is that real?" Some photos are so perfectly timed, so perfectly captured from such an odd angle that you’d think they’d been edited for…

121clicksIndia42 Award-Winning Photos From Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition Reveal a Hidden Universe Ever wondered what the world looks like when you zoom in way beyond what the naked eye can see? Get ready to have your mind blown!

121clicksIndiaTiny Worlds, Big Wonders: 33 Award-Winning Water Drop Macro Photos Ever looked at a water drop macro photos and wondered what kind of magic it might be hiding? Under the right light and through a macro lens, an ordinary drop of water can become a miniature universe…

121clicksIndiaRobert Doisneau: The Master Photographer Who Turned Everyday Life Into Timeless Art Some photographers see the world as it is, while others find the extraordinary hiding in its simplest moments. Robert Doisneau had a rare gift for doing just that.

121clicksIndiaBeauty of Everyday Life: 37 Award-Winning Photos from the Urban Photo Awards 2026 Life in the city moves fast. People rush past each other, sunlight spills between towering buildings, and countless little moments unfold without anyone giving them a second glance.

121clicksIndiaBeyond the Textbooks: 45 Extraordinary Historical Photos That Change How We See the Past History isn’t just a collection of dates, names, and events buried in textbooks. Sometimes, all it takes is a single photograph to bring an entire era back to life.

121clicksIndiaNature’s Beauty and Heartbreak: 19 Powerful Award-Winning Photos From Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 The wild world has a way of leaving us speechless. One moment, it’s breathtakingly beautiful; the next, it hits us with a heartbreaking reminder of life’s fragility.

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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