Create or document?

From the series 'Gravitation is relative' I've come to believe that all photography falls into one of two categories: created, or documented. It's also rather difficult to switch between the two, and people tend to find either one or the other more intuitive.

Life Inside Hong Kong's 'Coffin Cubicles'

"That day, I came home and cried," said Benny Lam when describing an experience photographing grim living conditions in Hong Kong. After four years of visiting over 100 sub-divided flats in the city's old district, Lam was accustomed to the wood-planked 15-square foot homes known as coffin cubicles.

A normal person's guide to buying an old film camera

Today, Kodak announced it was bringing back one of its iconic black-and-white films, TMax P3200, which has been out of production since 2012. It's a monochrome film that's extra-sensitive to light, so you can shoot with it in dark settings, and it will give you a gritty, grimy look that so many smartphone filter apps have tried to replicate.

5 Ways I Use A Beauty Dish

In this video Profoto Legend of Light Miguel Quiles discusses 5 ways you can use a beauty dish to take studio style portraits! This is the first of a series of videos covering the ways that Miguel likes using various modifiers to light his subjects.

How To Improve Your Chiaroscuro Portraits

An artistic technique developed during the time of the Renaissance, chiaroscuro is the Italian word meaning light-dark. It started out as a technical term used by artists to describe their drawings or paintings that showed bold contrast and distinct areas of...