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BooooooomCulture“Fearless Flowers” by Photographer Marcin T. Jozefiak Marcin T. Jozefiak Marcin T. Jozefiak’s Website Marcin T. Jozefiak on Instagram

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BooooooomCulture2026 Booooooom Photo Awards: Call to Submit Calling all photographers! Our fifth annual Booooooom Photo Awards are officially open for submissions.

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BooooooomCulture“Clearing” by Illustrator Evan M. Cohen Evan M. Cohen Evan M. Cohen’s Website Evan M. Cohen on Instagram

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BooooooomCulture2026 Booooooom Illustration Awards: Meet The Judges We’ve got cold hard cash up for grabs, prizes from BenQ , True Grit Texture Supply , and Clip Studio Paint , and oh yes, we’ve assembled another killer panel of guest judges to help us celebrate the…

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BooooooomCulture“Aesthetic of After” by Photographer Junya Suzuki Junya Suzuki Junya Suzuki’s Website Junya Suzuki on Instagram

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BooooooomCulture“Veil” by Photographer Jennilee Marigomen Jennilee Marigomen Jennilee Marigomen’s Website Jennilee Marigomen on Instagram

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BooooooomCultureArtist Spotlight: Alina-Ondine Slimovschi Alina-Ondine Slimovschi Alina-Ondine Slimovschi’s Website Alina-Ondine Slimovschi on Instagram

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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