The July edition of FRAMES Digital explores photography as witness, experiment, personal discipline, and a force for change. Lauren Walsh opens the issue with a moving essay on photojournalist and musician Tamir Kalifa, examining grief, resilience, and the lasting relationships formed while documenting tragedy. Rainer Eder then reveals how the spectacular images of his sixteen-year Mammut Project were planned and produced in unexpected industrial locations.
Gina Williams introduces wildlife photographer Olivia Rivera, whose photographs from Brazil’s Pantanal combine visual beauty with a strong commitment to conservation. Jacek Gąsiorowski reflects on memory, digital excess, artificial intelligence, and the restraint he finds in medium-format film, while Dean Golja considers how quantum imaging challenges our traditional understanding of light, evidence, and photographic authorship.
In conversation with Alasdair Foster, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Renée C. Byer discusses trust, dignity, and photography’s ability to inspire meaningful action. W. Scott Olsen closely reads Oliver Ammerschuber’s mysterious photograph from Madeira, and Stephen Smith humorously recounts his complicated journey into large-format photography.
The issue concludes with Books Briefly Noted, featuring publications by Richard Hay Jr., Bob Farese Jr., Hans Hickerson, and Nathalie Rubens. Together, these features create a thoughtful and wide-ranging edition about how photographs are made, what they ask of us, and why they continue to matter.
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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.
