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Hyperallergic PhotographyCultureIt’s Time to Talk About Classism in the Art World For something that determines so much — about the art we make, the art we get to see or not, the art that may never be made at all — the issue of class is rarely discussed in the art world.

Hyperallergic PhotographyCulturePipo Nguyen-duy, Beloved Photography Professor, Murdered at 64 Pipo Nguyen-duy, a beloved 64-year-old photography professor and the studio art department chair at Oberlin College in Ohio, and his wife, 56-year-old Tran Thi Phong, were fatally shot in their home…

Hyperallergic PhotographyCultureThe Rise and Fall of My Wikipedia Page Laura June Kirsch at the launch of her book Romantic Lowlife Fantasies: Emerging Adults In The Age of Hope in 2021 (all images courtesy Laura June Kirsch) Back in February, I got a Google Alert that…

Hyperallergic PhotographyCulturePhotographer Nelson Garrido, Who Embraced an "Aesthetics of the Ugly," Dies at 73 Nelson Garrido, Caracas, 2019 (photo Vladimir Marcano, courtesy Vladimir Marcano) Venezuelan artist Nelson Garrido, who made photography a practice of absolute freedom, died on August 20, 2026, days…

Hyperallergic PhotographyCultureVisiting the Bayeux Tapestry? Put Your Camera Away A picture's worth a thousand words, but is taking a picture worth compromising the preservation of the near-thousand-year-old Bayeux Tapestry?

Hyperallergic PhotographyCultureJoel-Peter Witkin’s God-Loving, Gender-Bending Art Joel-Peter Witkin, "The Raft of George W. Bush" (2006) (photo David S. Rubin/ Hyperallergic ) LOS ANGELES — Although octogenarian Joel-Peter Witkin’s photography has sparked controversy for its…

Hyperallergic PhotographyCultureAt This Year's Rencontres d'Arles, Photography Rethinks Its Centers ARLES, France — When the 57th Rencontres d’Arles photography festival opened in the second week of July, its 47 exhibitions filled the ancient churches, modern galleries, and unconventional venues of…

Hyperallergic PhotographyCultureSF Camerawork, Photo Champion for Five Decades, Abruptly Announces Closure The San Francisco photography organization SF Camerawork will close its doors after 52 years, the nonprofit announced on Instagram this week.

Hyperallergic PhotographyCulture10 Photo Books to Read This Month In 1976, Helen Levitt photographed a child balancing between a lime-green car and the sidewalk curb above a stream of runoff in New York City, her birthplace and the subject of most of her six-decade…

Hyperallergic PhotographyCultureChicago Photographer Accuses Mickalene Thomas of Copyright Infringement A Chicago-based photographer is suing artist Mickalene Thomas for alleged copyright infringement, according to documents filed in federal district court in Illinois on May 26.

Hyperallergic PhotographyCultureThe Hidden History of Stock Photography The term “stock photo” typically conjures a series of pejorative modifiers: “cliché,” “flat,” “mass produced.” A child about to blow on a dandelion. A slice of pie bleeding onto a plate.

Hyperallergic PhotographyCultureAnsel Adams Trust Decries Dealer's Sale of Photo Colorized Using AI The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust has lambasted New York City gallerist James Danziger for offering AI-colorized editions of one of the late artist's most recognized photos for sale at an art…

Hyperallergic PhotographyCultureI'm a Chicana Curator. This Is Why I Removed Cesar Chavez From My Show On February 7, the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture in Riverside, California, inaugurated a show I curated: Chicano Camera Culture: A Photographic History, 1966 to 2026 .

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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