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LensCultureCultureLooking for Unexpected Delights: Paris Photo 2026 Preview Looking for Unexpected Delights: Paris Photo 2026 Preview Paris Photo From bold new discoveries to iconic masterpieces, Paris Photo 2026 promises a dazzling celebration of photography—here are 28…

LensCultureCultureA Visual Education: What We See, What We Remember A Visual Education: What We See, What We Remember Ken Light Reflecting on a 50 year-long career in social documentary, Ken Light considers how photographs made in the urgency of the present gain new…

LensCultureCultureThe Burning of Autumn The Burning of Autumn Mehrdad Fathi A single match can destroy an entire forest—and in Mehrdad Fathi’s haunting cyanotypes, the humble matchbox becomes a vessel for remembering what we stand to lose.

LensCultureCultureMuted Ember: Youth and Uncertainty in Industrial China Muted Ember: Youth and Uncertainty in Industrial China Yue Sun Photographing the outskirts of his home city of Wuhai, China, Yue Sun captures a coal city in decline and a young generation caught in a…

LensCultureCultureThe Great Escape: Street Photography as Visual Haiku The Great Escape: Street Photography as Visual Haiku Bouwe Brouwer Embarking on a poetic drift through his older work, Bouwe Brouwer builds a conversation between photographs from different corners…

LensCultureCultureCry to the Angels Cry to the Angels Avery Norman In search of a feeling of youth she encountered online, Avery Norman constructs an imaginary girlhood informed by a combination of cultural iconography, Internet…

LensCultureCultureDown by the Hudson — Making the Photographs Down by the Hudson — Making the Photographs Caleb Stein In conversation beside the creek he photographed for more than a decade, Caleb Stein reflects on trust, masculinity, community, and the rewards…

LensCultureCultureContemporary Dutch Photography and the Work of Curating Quickscan 3 Contemporary Dutch Photography and the Work of Curating Quickscan 3 Nederlands Fotomuseum Ruben Lundgren explores his journey between the two practices of photography and curating—from his career in…

LensCultureCultureThe Last Butterflies The Last Butterflies Valentina sinis Inside the secret cave settlements of the all-female Kurdish fighters of the Women’s Protection Forces (HPJ), solidarity, care and daily ritual sit alongside the…

LensCultureCultureThe Quiet Rise The Quiet Rise Ashkan Shabani Turning the lens on his adopted country, Ashkan Shabani embarks on a long-term investigation into the rise and normalization of far-right extremism in Germany.

LensCultureCultureAlong the River Lea Along the River Lea Mattia Corato Along East London’s River Lea, which was once a vibrant industrial artery, Mattia Corato traces a landscape where wild nature, urban history and unconventional ways…

LensCultureCultureA Kind of Paradise – Colonial-Era Photography A Kind of Paradise – Colonial-Era Photography Museum Rietberg Twenty international artists working with archival images come together to form a polyphonic reinterpretation of history, drawing out…

LensCultureCultureDescendants of Summer Descendants of Summer Nicola Muirhead Beneath Bermuda’s image of paradise, Nicola Muirhead uncovers a complex inheritance of slavery, migration, resilience and community carried across generations.

LensCultureCultureMy Mother Doesn’t Work: Motherhood and Invisible Labor in Pictures My Mother Doesn’t Work: Motherhood and Invisible Labor in Pictures Olga Steinepreis What does it mean to “not work” when your days are consumed by keeping a family and household together?

LensCultureCultureL’Artiere Edizioni: Photobooks as Collectible Art Objects L’Artiere Edizioni: Photobooks as Collectible Art Objects LArtiere Edizioni L’Artiere Edizioni’s Gianluca Gamberini talks about collaboration, experimentation and the magic of transforming a body of…

LensCultureCulture11 Great Photography Podcasts You Should Know 11 Great Photography Podcasts You Should Know LensCulture Editors Looking for the best photography podcasts?

LensCultureCultureAlex Yudzon’s “5 Garfield Avenue” Turns Suburban America into a Horror Story Alex Yudzon’s “5 Garfield Avenue” Turns Suburban America into a Horror Story Alex Yudzon Created during a brief relocation from the New York City, displacement and domestic unease haunt the…

LensCultureCultureThe Global Guide to Photobook Fairs: 70+ Events Around the World The Global Guide to Photobook Fairs: 70+ Events Around the World LensCulture Editors From major international festivals to independent publishing gatherings, discover more than 70 photobook fairs…

LensCultureCultureNazraeli Press: Interview with Photobook Publisher Chris Pichler Nazraeli Press: Interview with Photobook Publisher Chris Pichler Chris Pichler Nazraeli Press founder Chris Pichler reflects on four decades of publishing, the enduring power of photobooks, and what…

LensCultureCultureRefusal. Second Fracture Refusal. Second Fracture Rafal Milach Through images, murals, objects and videos, Rafał Milach’s new exhibition connects propaganda and protest, asking how the region’s political structures might be…

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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