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Photo LondonCultureApplications for Photo London 2027: Open Now We are delighted to announce that applications for Photo London 2027 are now open! Following the resounding success of 2026, which welcomed 170 exhibitors from 31 countries, including more than 40…

07.08

Photo LondonCultureWinner Announced: Nikon Emerging Photographer Award 2026 We are delighted to announce Steffi Reimers as the winner of the 2026 Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award.

05.27

Photo LondonCulturePositions: A Platform for New Voices in Photography 2026 As Photo London enters a new chapter at Olympia, Positions returns as a dedicated platform for artists without gallery representation, bringing new voices in contemporary photography into direct…

04.30

Photo LondonCulture2026 Nikon Emerging Photographer Award: Shortlist Announced We’re delighted to reveal the shortlisted artists for the 2026 Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award.

04.29

Photo LondonCulturePhoto London Announces the 2026 Student Award Shortlist Photo London is pleased to announce the four students shortlisted for the 2026 award. This year, more than 80 students were nominated by course tutors at UK universities, with the final shortlist…

04.28

Photo LondonCulturePhoto London Announces 2026 Talks Programme Photo London has announced its 2026 Talks Programme, bringing together leading artists, collectors, curators, publishers, editors and cultural figures for a series of conversations at the Fair’s new…

04.27

Photo LondonCulturePositions: Maria Sukkar on Discovery, Visibility and Early Support Maria Sukkar is curator of Positions at Photo London, the section dedicated to unrepresented photographic talent.

04.20

Photo LondonCultureIn Memoriam: Robert Hershkowitz (1944–2026) Photo London is saddened to learn of the passing of Robert Hershkowitz, a distinguished dealer, scholar and longstanding contributor to the fair, who died aged 81.

03.24

Photo LondonCultureWays of Collecting: A Corporate Art Collection with Barbara Staubli Barbara Staubli is Head of the Art Department at Julius Baer and curator of the Julius Baer Art Collection, overseeing more than 5,000 works by contemporary Swiss artists.

03.20

Photo LondonCultureExhibitors Announced for Photo London 2026 Photo London has announced further details of its eleventh edition, which will take place at Olympia, Kensington from 14–17 May 2026, with a VIP Preview on Wednesday 13 May.

03.16

Photo LondonCulturePhoto London announces details of first edition at Olympia Photo London will open its eleventh edition at Olympia, Kensington, from 14–17 May 2026, with a Preview on Wednesday 13 May 2026.

02.25

Photo LondonCultureThe Gift of Photography 2025 Gift Ideas from from Photo London & Friends. Celebrate the season with our handpicked collection of festive gifts from Photo London’s community.

2025.12.05

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