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BlindCultureIn Brussels, Photographers Set the Sun-Drawing Alight On the occasion of photography's bicentenary, France's Centre national des arts plastiques and Brussels' Hangar present "Reinventing Photography," an ambitious and electrifying exhibition: twenty…

BlindCulturePunk, Anonymous and Feminist: the Anti-Selfie According to K8 Hardy American artist K8 Hardy takes over MoMA with "Position Series", featured in the group exhibition "Taking Back Our Space," alongside the publication of Positions by MACK, which brings together the…

BlindCultureJordan Rossi: “Joy Is Political in Its Own Way” In "Homecoming", presented during Milan Fashion Week, the British photographer and filmmaker probes identity, masculinity and queer culture at the intersection of fashion photography, fine art…

BlindCultureSusan kae Grant: Sweet Dreams Are Made of This American photographer Susan kae Grant has made dreams her material and her photographic territory. Night Journey, published by MW Editions, is the culmination of a life's work: a sumptuous and…

BlindCultureThe Martin Parr Foundation: The Gothic Next Door The Martin Parr Foundation presents "Dark Tales: British Documentary and the Gothic," an exhibition that reminds the viewer what makes an atmosphere distinctively British: a fondness for dark irony…

BlindCultureDenis Boulze and the Sweet Life of Clichés Denis Boulze's first book, Clichés, gathers assemblages built from the archives of a fashion and still-life photographer.

BlindCultureTwo Images Are Better Than One In Frozen Features, American photographer and publisher Jason Fulford overlays his negatives at random. From each collision emerges a third image, forging its own syntax.

BlindCultureBlack Cowboys Are Back in the Arena Two years after the success of Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture, Damiani releases a new edition featuring 91 previously unpublished photographs, with a foreword by James Pickens Jr., Grey's Anatomy…

BlindCultureAi Huang: Personal Development Paris's Galerie La Lison is hosting the first French solo exhibition of Ai Huang, a Tokyo-based artist whose work explores portraiture through the gelatin silver process — self-portraits of rare…

BlindCultureCheyco Leidmann: the Red That Bleeds, the Gold That Burns Acclaimed by the fashion world for his monograph Foxy Lady, considered by Vogue Paris one of the cult classics of the past five decades, Cheyco Leidmann created a legendary new surrealist style in…

BlindCultureDowntown, Behind the Scenes of the City With his series "Downtown," photographer Alexis Duclos continues his exploration of urban space. From Paris to New York by way of Tokyo, he takes us on a stroll through his favorite playground.

BlindCultureBaldwin Lee’s Unseen New York His portraits of Black communities in the American South, made throughout the 1980s, established Baldwin Lee as one of the defining figures of American documentary photography.

BlindCultureWill Vogt: “People Are Rarely As Buttoned-Up As They Appear” For nearly sixty years, Will Vogt has photographed America's old money from the inside. His second monograph, Behind the Hedges, came out earlier this year, and the Art Museum of South Texas is now…

BlindCultureStacy Kranitz: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Wounds With Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down, winner of the Images Vevey Book Award 2025/2026, Stacy Kranitz closes out nearly twenty years of photographing Appalachia.

BlindCultureAn Archive of Us Over a decade, Jesse Glazzard has built an intimate photographic archive of the people, friendships and encounters that have shaped his life.

BlindCultureVic Bakin: Fading In Materia, his second book following the monograph Epitome, Kyiv-based photographer Vic Bakin sets images against the decay of their own physical support.

BlindCultureThe Brazenness of Bangkok’s Street Youth In the portraits of Chardchakaj Waikawee, Thailand's marginalized youth astonish with sheer presence. L’article The Brazenness of Bangkok’s Street Youth est apparu en premier sur Blind Magazine .

BlindCultureImages Vevey: Families, I Love You For its tenth edition, the Images Vevey Biennial borrows its theme from a disco hit, “We are family!”, and unfolds some fifty free projects across the town through September 27, 2026.

BlindCultureThe Last Pictures Taken Inside the World Trade Center In the summer of 2001, a night-shift electrician wandered the empty floors of the World Trade Center with a digital camera, photographing offices, kitchens and stairwells no one else thought to…

BlindCultureWomen Photographers Steal the Spotlight From stage to screen, the exhibition "Stardust: 100 Years of Stage, Screen and Celebrity" traces a century of celebrity portraiture through the work of women photographers.

BlindCultureAn Instrument Called Photography Ten years after their first meeting, photographer Alexandre Dupeyron and composer Thomas Julienne present the world premiere of the new chapter of Dysnomia Live, titled “Silent Green.” Catch it this…

BlindCultureCamille Vivier Sculpts the Flesh Only a few days remain to discover the first major retrospective the Maison Européenne de la Photographie devotes to Camille Vivier in Paris.

BlindCulture“Let’s Celebrate!”: Everyone’s Own Party, a Party for All For its twentieth anniversary, YellowKorner partnered with Blind to launch an international call for entries built around joy and celebration, drawing nearly 2,500 photographs from around the world.

BlindCultureVisa pour l’Image: The World we “Must Keep Looking at” The 38th edition of the international photojournalism festival in Perpignan was marked by mourning, following the death of its co-founder, Jean-François Leroy.

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The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

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