#photography

#photography

I was travelling home with it when I noticed, behind the hills beyond Silsden, a perfectly formed arch of cloud - like a cloudy rainbow, I pulled in, intending to take photos. By the time I'd sorted the camera out the arch had broken up as per the photo, but I took a few shots anyway. That evening, I was playing with the camera and deleting shots I'd taken when I came across this one showing something on the far left.

"So I went in, and nobody was there. And it was transformational," Isaak said. "You walk into that space, and you know you are someplace else. And if you're lucky, you can relinquish all the baggage that you're carrying and just be in that place."

The 2025 AAP Magazine Awards honored the power of shape in photography, showcasing some exceptional winners whose work explores form, geometry, and structure as essential tools of visual storytelling. Selected from global submissions, these images span architectural precision and natural spontaneity, revealing how shape can create harmony or tension within a frame. The issue celebrates not only technical excellence but also the artists' ability to find beauty in both simplicity and complexity.

You know someone is committed to the shot when they're willing to stand on a chair, hover over a table, or dangle their phone out a window - and that describes Libras to a T. As a social air sign, they'll do whatever it takes to capture fun moments as they unfold, and they'll be especially motivated if they need something for social media.

For more than a decade, Rosen has sought out chattering macaws, cockatoos with fluffy, blush-colored plumage, and ornery owls, which she pairs with patterned papers and textiles. An African penguin, for example, stares curiously at its pink-and-white striped surroundings, while a Lady Amherst's pheasant trots across ornate brocade. The resulting portraits are meditations on notions of beauty and the relationship between nature and culture, particularly as we've reproduced imagery of the former throughout centuries of art and design.

For all the talk about young men in the world today -from how they act, how they think, to how they vote-few bother to ask them what they see. They are famously reluctant to talk about their feelings. So it stands to reason that cameras might be the greatest thing you can give a young man. In their hands, cameras can reveal a universe of thought. Pictures are worth a thousand words, so the cliché goes, but sometimes they say even more.

He began reaching out to scientific vessels and shipping companies about possible trips to facilitate a photographic project, but to no avail. Until, by chance, he met a man called Nick at a pub in London, whose family chartered large boats. "I followed up with an email, and four months later I was on the Panda 006, a 270m container ship," Max says, and the series Life Suspended Between Ports was born.

With 111 intimate colour portraits on plain white paper featuring locals and residents from all walks of life - including family, friends and fellow Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama - Homma tells an unfiltered story of the ordinary people who make up Japan. They're portraits that focus on the raw emotion of his subjects, guided by empathy and a desire to showcase people as they are.

It was in a Guardian image gallery that I read Justine Kurland describing her son as giving her pictures. When I read that, I knew I could never put it better myself. I only photograph people I have ties with. These people give me these pictures, particularly my husband, Dylan.

"Kodachrome is known for its 67 monolithic spires that vary in shape, size, and color, and we have 15 miles of hiking trails with trail lengths varying from 0.5 miles to nine miles," park manager Brandon Baugh tells Travel + Leisure. So instead of hoodoos, like the ones you'll see in Bryce Canyon, the park features those aforementioned sandstone spires, or sedimentary pipes, and they range from six to 160 feet tall.

He had begun his career shooting photos for his high school yearbook and college newspaper, though, and always remembered what a simple slice-of-life picture means for those who aren't famous or immersed in a startling news event. Away from work, he photographed his sons' high school sports events and kept doing so after they graduated because he knew photos are treasured memories that linger for years on everything from refrigerators to social media pages.

People attend the canonisation ceremony for Carlo Acutis in St Peter's Square Photograph: Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images Prince Hisahito attends his coming-of-age ceremony at the imperial palace Photograph: AP Beef is prepared to cook a traditional dish called Kuah Beulangong to commemorate the birthday of the prophet Muhammad Photograph: Hotli Simanjuntak/EPA The DJ and music producer Vladimir Cauchemar at the city's 51st American film festival Photograph: AFP/Getty Images Josh Brolin, Glenn Close and Jeremy Renner at the premiere of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, during the city's international film festival Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Benny Safdie poses with the Silver Lion for the runner-up as best director for The Smashing Machine at the city's 82nd international film festival Photograph: Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images

I'm not the best photographer in the world, I'm the hardest-working, Sebastiao Salgado told me in a soft voice.

For over 25 years, Marquardt's photography has captured the raw, intimate essence of a Berlin generation, resonating deeply within its vibrant culture. With Disturbing Beauty, previously unveiled in cosmopolitan capitals like New York, Montreal, and Mexico City, the photographer offers an unparalleled immersive experience that transcends traditional presentations. Set against the backdrop of the historic Haus der Visionare, this one-night-only event will showcase four monumental black-and-white portraits, artfully enveloped by towering video installations.

A photograph has been shared online of the most stunning real-life optical illusion I've ever seen, and it's garnered over 5,000 upvotes on Reddit so I'm not the only one to be impressed. Consisting of a sunset as viewed from a car, the sky looks exactly as if there is a river running underneath it, with the sunset turning the water a beautiful pink hue. Staring at the illusion for longer does nothing to take away the spectacle, it's actually very difficult to see the reality of the image - that the river is actually made out of clouds framing the sky in a certain way.

My aim was to illustrate the deep connection between a woman and a man, a relationship shaped by care and burden, intimacy and distance. The man swings from the flowing black dress of the woman above him. The clothing becomes the bridge between the two figures, soft yet unbreakable. It's a visual metaphor for how men, knowingly or not, often rest on the invisible emotional strength of women.

working as the library manager at the International Center of Photography, overseeing projects for Dashwood, and producing zines through her publishing house, Matarile Ediciones. Spending her days poring over others' work, some titles have shaped her idea of what makes a photo book truly remarkable - from Carmen Winant's My Birth, with its tactile documentation of women in labour, to Nobuyoshi Araki's Winter Journey, which sequences his wife's final days in hospital and their honeymoon in a moving, elegiac rhythm.

"I found something deeply healing about the Adriatic coast after everything that happened," says Ida. That same healing blue is the colour that dominates her new photography and print project Blue Valentines, a love letter to identity, migration and fractal communication through cyanotypes. "Photography, because of its widespread availability, reproducibility, and omnipresence, carries a powerful communicative potential," says Ida. "In that sense, it acts almost like the perfect migrant - a medium that can be sent anywhere across the globe, continually transforming along the way."

I saw John, still alive, moving on the ground, but I realized I couldn't take that photo of someone who was dying—it didn't feel right, he recalls.

"This room, and the piano in this room... I just had this song in my head. And I woke up. I like that tune, what is it?... And after about two weeks, nobody knowing it, I just decided it had to be mine. And it was Yesterday."

"When I discovered the real estate market in Japan and noticed the really low prices, it got me thinking about the possibilities of owning property there."

Ewelina Bialoszewska embeds seeds into her homemade photo book, known as the Growing Album, enabling viewers to plant and grow the album after use.

Guindo originally hails from southern Spain and has been based in Reykjavík since 2016, lured by the island nation's raw beauty, dramatic geology, and northern light.

Capturing people's laughs and the candid moments in rugby is a passion for Maud Muir, who has taken hundreds of photos in the England women's camp.

Stockbridge likens his photography approach to an angler waiting for a fish, focusing on light and composition while waiting for the right subject to appear.

Teller's book, titled Auschwitz Birkenau, unveils a bland photographic documentation of the Auschwitz site, capturing everything from mundane details to haunting history.

Camera Coach utilizes Gemini technology to provide real-time photography suggestions based on scene analysis, helping users improve their photography skills.