Colossal Photography

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Colossal PhotographyCultureIn an Updated Edition, Photographer Ivan McClellan Returns to Black Rodeo Culture From California to Oklahoma to Illinois, Black communities are saddling up and grasping the reins of a horse or ornery bull.

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Colossal PhotographyCultureTimothy Boomer Captures the Uncanny World of Insect Galls Gall wasps, also known as cynipids , have a unique mutual relationship with plants. Their name is derived from the deposits, called galls, which they induce on host plants to support their larvae.

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Colossal PhotographyCultureA Rare Disease and Analog Photography Merge in a Portrait of Self-Discovery “ Everything Twice ” is a quiet meditation on disability and the ways we orient ourselves in the world.

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Colossal PhotographyCultureA Macro Journey Underwater Reveals the Radiant Geometries of Coral Armed with high-magnification macro lenses, filmmaker Sandro Bocci journeyed through coral reefs to document a striking array of color, texture, and pattern.

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Colossal PhotographyCultureTom Hegen’s ‘The Mineral Age’ Documents the Indelible Effects of the Green Transition In its current form, the global transition away from fossil fuels will depend on the earth’s rare minerals.

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Colossal PhotographyCulture‘Street Photography Africa’ is a Colorful and Energetic Survey Across the Continent From the markets of Dakar and Lagos to the sidewalks of Abidjan and the Beherawi neighborhood of Addis Abab, a bold new book by Nadine Barth and Azu Nwagbogu travels from country to country to…

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Colossal PhotographyCultureCome Face-to-Face with the Lion Nebula in the James Webb Space Telescope’s Portrait NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured some remarkable phenomena in space, from the Horsehead Nebula to the unbelievable “ Pillars of Creation .” Things just got a little bit wilder with…

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Colossal PhotographyCultureThe Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 Winners Showcase Nature’s Power and Vulnerability Federico Veronesi received the top honor of the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year for his poignant black-and-white image of a female elephant carrying her deceased calf.

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Colossal PhotographyCultureJonathan Knight’s Meditative Series ‘Exhale’ Invites Us to Slow Down and Practice Noticing “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention,” economist and computer scientist Herbert Simon warned in 1971.

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Colossal PhotographyCultureMore Than 18,000 Wildlife Species Populate Joel Sartore’s Ambitious ‘Photo Ark’ (So Far!) Twenty years ago, National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore set out on a deceptively simple multi-year mission: to create a photo archive of biodiversity.

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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