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Feature ShootCultureWellcome Photography Prize Returns with £52,000 ($70,000) for Images Exploring Health Dream to Cure Water ©Ciril Jazbec; Image courtesy of Wellcome Photography Prize 2025 The Wellcome Photography Prize 2027 is now accepting submissions from photographers and image-makers around…

September 14

Feature ShootCulturePhotographer Lev L. Spiro Captures the Feeling of Thin Places The Glen Most people have experienced a “thin place” even if they don’t necessarily realize it or give it a name.

August 24

Feature ShootCultureChester Higgins on Photographing Black Life Across the Diaspora Photographer Chester Higgins has spent more than six decades creating images that honor the presence, history, and achievements of people of African descent.

May 20

Feature ShootCultureInside 80 Buddhist Caves in India: One Scholar’s 10,000-Image Archive Jain Temple in cave 32 at Ellora, 9 th century CE Dr. David S. Efurd, a two-time Fulbright recipient, associate professor, and chair of art and art history, has spent decades documenting the Buddhist…

May 13

Feature ShootCultureThe Time is Now: Take In ‘Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985’ Harry Adams , Protest Car , 1962, inkjet print, Courtesy of the Tom & Ethel Bradley Center at California State University, Northridge. © Harry Adams. All rights reserved and protected.

April 24

Feature ShootCultureJon McCormack’s Stunning Nature Photobook Reveals Hidden Geometry Across the Planet ©Jon McCormack ©Jon McCormack Patterns: Art of the Natural World , published by Damiani and released to coincide with Earth Day (April 22, 2026), is a striking photobook by Australian…

April 21

Feature ShootCultureNicole Tung on Photographing Overfishing in Southeast Asia: Inside Her Carmignac Award Project Filipino fishermen unload catches of Yellowfin tuna, Bigeye tuna, and Blue Marlin, after being at sea for approximately one month, at General Santos fish port, the Philippines, on Wednesday, May 21…

April 16

Feature ShootCultureTo Stay or Leave? Young Women in Lebanon Navigate War, Crisis, and Uncertainty A question scrawled on a wall in Beirut— Where do I go? —forms the emotional core of Rania Matar’s powerful new body of work .

April 7

Feature ShootCulture‘Florida Boys’ Find Themselves in the Backwoods of the State ©Josh Aronson, Ophelia , 2025 Josh Aronson (born 1994 in Toronto) is a Miami-based artist. His photos have been published in places like The New York Times, The Paris Review, Financial Times…

January 17

Feature ShootCulturePhoto Books and Speed Dating: Connection Forged Through An Unlikely Pair Josh Aronson: Photo Book Speed Date , Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, 2025, © Josh Aronson.

December 8, 2025

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