Life Framer

10 stories

Life FramerCultureSmall Acts of Falling in Love INTERVIEW Small Acts of Falling in Love WITH JOSE BRAVO AN INTERVIEW WITH JOSE BRAVO “I experience many of my images as small acts of falling in love: a way of pointing to something that, in the…

11.06

Life FramerCultureOut of Love for Light EDITORS’ PICK Out of Love for Light BLACK & WHITE BLACK & WHITE EDITORS’ PICK Following Andrea Modica’s selection of winning images for our recent Black & White competition , this compilation of 20…

10.23

Life FramerCultureMy Favorite Shot INSPIRATION My Favorite Shot TRAVEL What’s the favorite photo you’ve taken? Could you pick a favorite image you’ve taken?

10.21

Life FramerCultureWhat It Means To Be Human INTERVIEW What It Means To Be Human WITH AYAKA YAMAMOTO AN INTERVIEW WITH AYAKA YAMAMOTO “I spend time in places that are unfamiliar to me and photograph the people I meet there… My work considers…

10.07

Life FramerCultureOur Contradictions EDITORS’ PICK Our Contradictions HUMANS HUMANS EDITORS’ PICK Following GMB Akash’s selection of winning images for our recent Humans competition , this compilation of 20 images represents some of the…

09.19

Life FramerCultureMountains Calling INTERVIEW Mountains Calling WITH JUDITH MIJDERWIJK AN INTERVIEW WITH JUDITH MIJDERWIJK “My aim is not simply to document what is disappearing, but above all to make the beauty and fragility of this…

09.15

Life FramerCultureThe Pale Blue Dot EDITORS’ PICK The Pale Blue Dot PLANET EARTH PLANET EARTH EDITORS’ PICK Following Myrtille Delamarche’s selection of winning images for our recent Planet Earth competition , this compilation of 20…

08.22

Life FramerCultureFrom the Outside In INTERVIEW From the Outside In WITH MARIO SCHNEIDER AN INTERVIEW WITH MARIO SCHNEIDER “It was an attitude to life that seemed infinitely far away to me, and yet it was close to me.

08.07

Life FramerCultureWalking Contradictions EDITORS’ PICK Walking Contradictions STREET LIFE STREET LIFE EDITORS’ PICK Following Shana Lopes’s selection of winning images for our recent Street Life competition , this compilation of 20 images…

07.24

Life FramerCultureMirrors of Each Other INTERVIEW Mirrors of Each Other WITH JULIA SMITH-EPPSTEINER AN INTERVIEW WITH JULIA SMITH-EPPSTEINER “[With portraiture] I like the inherent cocreation that happens. The giggles of discomfort.

07.10

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