World Photography Organisation

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World Photography OrganisationCultureAfter the Award: Scott Wilson on Turning a Win into a Platform After the Award: Scott Wilson on Turning a Win into a Platform We catch up with the 2022 Open Photographer of the Year annasiemaszko@… Fri, 11/06/2026 - 09:00 FREEDOM - Sand Wash Basin, Colorado ©️…

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World Photography OrganisationCulture10 Things to Know About James Barnor: Outstanding Contribution to Photography 2027 10 Things to Know About James Barnor: Outstanding Contribution to Photography 2027 The 20th recipient of the Outstanding Contribution to Photography revealed, alongside a retrospective of his works…

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World Photography OrganisationCultureEntries of the Week: Of Whales, Wild Places and Water Droplets Entries of the Week: Of Whales, Wild Places and Water Droplets From a tiny seahorse and a flower reflected in a water droplet to mountain landscapes and underwater adventures, discover ten remarkable…

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World Photography OrganisationCultureA life-changing event led him to photography: Interview with Yousef Naser A life-changing event led him to photography: Interview with Yousef Naser Explore the journey of the 2026 Egypt National Award winner annasiemaszko@… Sun, 11/01/2026 - 12:00 This interview was…

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World Photography OrganisationCultureHow to create a winning Student series: Advice from competition judge, Menno Liauw How to create a winning Student series: Advice from competition judge, Menno Liauw Enter the Student competition for free before it closes on 27 November annasiemaszko@… Fri, 10/30/2026 - 14:58 What…

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World Photography OrganisationCultureA Little Strange, A Little Spooky: Entries of the Week A Little Strange, A Little Spooky: Entries of the Week From mysterious figures and Halloween costumes to lightning storms and eerie woodland scenes, discover ten photographs with a spooky twist in…

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World Photography OrganisationCultureFrom Istanbul’s Rooftops to the Wari Festival: Entries of the Week From Istanbul’s Rooftops to the Wari Festival: Entries of the Week Discover 10 photographs from the Single Image competition that caught our eye this week annasiemaszko@… Tue, 10/20/2026 - 14:00 This…

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World Photography OrganisationCultureLook Twice: Entries of the Week Look Twice: Entries of the Week Unexpected perspectives, remarkable timing and creative approaches to photography. Discover ten standout entries to the Sony World Photography Awards.

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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