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The Guardian PhotographyCultureIdentity, resilience and community: early Black portrait photography – in pictures A new Washington DC exhibition aims to show how African Americans have used portrait photography to depict themselves, their communities, their aspirations and their identities.

The Guardian PhotographyCultureWeek in wildlife: an autumnal deer, golden jackals and an oily-kneed beetle This week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world

The Guardian PhotographyCultureStudent strikes, northern lights and Loch Ness beavers: photos of the day – Thursday The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

The Guardian PhotographyCultureMystical visions: strange sightings at Bristol photo festival – in pictures From women floating across the shore to magical patches of Irish land, this year’s exhibitions are full of fantastic yet confounding photography

The Guardian PhotographyCulture‘I put a smoke bomb in a road cone and stuck it on my head’: Delton Barrett’s best photograph ‘It occurred to me that this image looked like someone losing their mind, going ballistic. I tried many shots and was getting tired.

The Guardian PhotographyCultureWomen behind the lens: ‘I learned early what I was meant to become: a wife, a cook, a keeper of the home’ The South African artist Remofiloe Nomandla Mayisela questions the role she was expected to fulfil in her playful self-portraits MilkMaid is part of my photographic series Lipservice, which stars Mrs…

The Guardian PhotographyCultureThe night-sky image so incredible the NZ man behind it has been accused of using AI Brendan Larsen spent hours taking hundreds of photographs of the sky over a mountain in New Zealand A photograph showing thousands of satellites cross-hatching the night sky over New Zealand appeared…

The Guardian PhotographyCultureAutumn colours and ghostly mist – readers’ best photographs Click here to submit a picture for publication in these online galleries and/or on the Guardian letters page

The Guardian PhotographyCultureSend in the clowns! Dreamlike images – in pictures Nicolas Rachline’s stunning book Elsebound is full of painterly photographs inspired by Edward Hopper and Blade Runner. He explains his uniquely haunting style

The Guardian PhotographyCultureAutumn light on a loch and garment worker protests: photos of the day – Monday The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

The Guardian PhotographyCultureCrossings: Laura Pannack’s award-winning images of South African youth – in pictures The British visual artist and photographer Laura Pannack has been named the winner of the inaugural Tom Stoddart award for excellence 2025.

The Guardian PhotographyCulture‘Some photos imprint upon us’: How our Saturday magazine puts together special issues about world-changing photographs A great picture can have an immediate and visceral effect on a viewer, as if bypassing thought. But a huge amount of thinking goes into selecting and sourcing them, and researching their backstories…

The Guardian PhotographyCultureHalloween, midterms and cafe culture: photos of the weekend The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world

The Guardian PhotographyCulture‘A gust of wind blowing back her hair added something special’: Mark McEvoy’s best phone picture It was very cold and the young smoker was barelegged, barefoot and wearing a fur coat … How could the photographer resist?

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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