Love+War opens in Novoluhans’ke, Eastern Ukraine, five days before the Russian Invasion. The sky is gray, the temperature cold. There

It is an afternoon at the Vogue studios. The year is 1931. A tall model with short blonde hair poses

It really doesn’t matter how often I look. There is something about the portrait which, when done well, transcends documentation.

There is a type of photo book which, at one level, seems to be more about gear or technique than

There are moments when photography exceeds its brief, when it does not simply record reality, but like a breath, a

In one way, I wish I did not have this book on my desk. In a great many other ways,

Every now and then, I wonder about how many photo books are produced that most of us never see. These

The only clue we get to the specifics of Twelve Acres by Henry Head is one sentence, set alone, at

Sometimes a photo book just speaks to your heart. There’s something about it which seems honest and insightful, artistically adroit,

Let me begin with a memory about something else. Several decades ago (alas), I found myself one afternoon in a

For several years, I used to carry in my bag a small book titled Sauntering: Writer’s Walk Europe. Introduced and

I doubt I will ever be not surprised by the ability of photography to open up something fresh and unexpected,

There is a problem which haunts every photographer, no matter what type of photography, no matter what genre, no matter

In a foreword to the new book, When Words Fail by Pamela Thomas-Graham, photographer and scholar Carla Williams writes: When

Perhaps it’s a bit like listening to songs on the radio, songs you like a lot, songs you learn by