We’ve just released the brand-new August 2025 edition of FRAMES Digital, and it’s packed with essays, conversations, and photo stories that challenge, inspire, and move us.
This issue opens with a jolt of honesty from Freek Dirkx: “Photo critique is hurting your photography.” It’s a call to trust instinct over conformity—a reminder that safe pictures rarely linger in the mind.
Next, Molly Ferrill and David Fryburg explore how images of care measurably reduce stress in hospitals and schools—visual diet as medicine in The Healing Power of an Image.
Gina Williams profiles Sicilian photographer Seby Scollo, whose life’s work preserves Buccheri’s traditions from street level to the sky—culture as memory, photographed.
In our in-depth Conversation, Dr. Alasdair Foster brings us into Xiangjie Peng’s decade-long portrait of China’s queer underground—a monochrome chronicle of courage, community, and constraint.
Later in the issue, Marty Gervais returns from the Oslo Street Photography Festival with notes on “unguarded moments” and why some portraits resonate long after the shutter clicks.
We also publish W. Scott Olsen twice this month: first with a luminous Reading FRAMES on Wojciech Szarski’s “Eleonor”, then with “The Quiet, Essential Support,” an interview with Alice Gabriner on building the Center for Contemporary Documentation and funding deep environmental storytelling.
From the field, Amat Al-Rahman Al-Afouri reports from Yemen, where thirst is a daily reality—an urgent photo-essay on dignity, survival, and the politics of water.
Community Spotlight
- Howard Schatz reimagines The Last Supper with ballerinas—grand staging, meticulous craft.
- Sarah Lawrie leans into mystery—mirrors, glass, and the beautiful ambiguity of feeling.
- Elizabeth Bourne reflects on Svalbard’s changing Barentsburg—culture, color, and geopolitics at the edge of the Arctic.
- Jens F. Kruse distills street photography to presence—mindfulness in motion.
Download the new issue now (members)—and sink into work that risks more, cares more, and sees deeper.
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Each year, we publish twelve issues of FRAMES Digital – PDF publications complementing the main printed editions of the FRAMES Magazine. They feature additional imagery and written content in a high-resolution digital publication delivered directly through the FRAMES Subscriber Area.
