Photographer Ella Ling spent last week courtside in New York City photographing the world’s top tennis athletes at the U.S. Open. Ling started photographing the sport back when she was a teenager—she captured local tournaments using a film camera. She has come a long way since then

Growing up in the 1970s, I was one of those intense Major League Baseball fans who could have used some therapy. After all, I was and still am a New York Mets fan. During those years, I’d grab my own Louisville Slugger and pretend I was facing John Candelaria or Don Sutton. With the bases

Professional sports photographer Simon Bruty is getting ready to go to Tokyo for the 2021 Olympics. He’s working as part of a three person team covering the games for Sports Illustrated. It won’t be his first Olympic assignment, but this one is—perhaps predictably—a lot different tha

Jamie Squire has been shooting for Getty Images for 27 years. Now a Senior Staff Photographer, he’s covered countless sporting events on some of the world’s biggest stages, including six Olympic Games, numerous Super Bowls, World Series, Kentucky Derbys, Stanely Cup Finals, and

The art of street photography focuses so much on capturing subject unaware, snapping them at their most natural and relaxed moment. And when looking to secretly photograph someone, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone more experienced than the various secret police of the Communist B

This looks like required viewing for any fan of street photography and/or New York City: Director Cheryl Dunn, who is a photographer herself, managed to wrangle up a top-notch lineup of photographers famous for their work on the streets of New York to appear in her new documentary, Everyb

Robert Doisneau’s Paris changed drastically over the thirty years he spent photographing it, but his eye did not. “His style was very continuous throughout his career. He didn’t have major shifts,” says Charlotte Farrell, curator at Rox Gallery. “He really spent a lot of t

Natan Dvir, an Israeli fine-art photographer, has made a name for himself by adding new life to the genre known as street photography. Classic 20th-century street shooters such as Robert Frank, Leonard Freed, and Garry Winogrand generally worked in black-and-white and placed pedestrians fr

Jack Simon shot this San Francisco street scene with a Fujifilm X100S and an exposure of 1/2000 at f/8, ISO 640. Photo: Jack Simon _Thanks to digital photography and instant online image sharing, street photography is enjoying a revival. Now anyone with a camera can head out and shoot w

To proclaim something ‘the first,’ or to fit it under any superlative as makers of internet today are wont to do, inevitably will ruffle some feathers. And in the photo world, few things are as contentious as the limits, definition, and assessment of street photography. On the one hand

The progression of camera technology from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s through today has steadily made street photography easier to accomplish. Focusing distance scales on lenses make it easier to grab shots without adjusting focus through a finder or on ground glass. Advancements in f

“You’ve got to let the people wash over you—It’s about making order out of that chaos,” says Markus Andersen, a Sydney based street photographer and member of the international street photography collective Tiny Collective. For Andersen, part of making great

If you’re a fan of fashion, then you’re probably already familiar with The Sartorialist. For the uninitiated, it’s a prolific collection of high-fashion portraits shot of real-world people on the street by photographer Scott Schuman. It’s kind of like Humans of New York, but with fancier

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In the fall of 2010,_ Boston Magazine_ hired Teru Onishi, a talented jewelry, cosmetics, and liquids specialist, to shoot 25 different drinks in his Manhattan studio. The photos were to illustrate one of the magazine’s cocktail roundups–the image shown here is a whiskey smash. All ha

Want to get serious about the lighting you take on location? You’ll quickly learn the meaning of the word “compromise.” Your lights should be extraordinarily compact, with an ample set of light-modifying accessories that are equally packable. Yet they must have as many features and almost

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You’ve seen fashion photos in print and online, but have you ever wondered what—and whom—it takes to make them? We went behind the scenes at a shoot for fashion website Refinery29 to find out. _If video does not load, re-load page (Video by: __Matthew Ismael Ruiz and __Wesley Fulghum)_

The 119-year-old New York Times Magazine redesigned and relaunched this past weekend with four dynamic covers to their “Global” themed issue. Their team commissioned illustrations from photographers Matthew Pillsbury, Hannah Whitaker, Sara Cwynar, and the duo Maurizio Cattela