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Minimalist Color Photography
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Minimalist Color Photography

Minimalist color photography: discover how blocks of color, light, shadow, and one strong accent can create images that feel both calm and dynamic.

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5 min
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Helen Levitt: City at Play at Kunsthal Rotterdam
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Helen Levitt: City at Play at Kunsthal Rotterdam

Helen Levitt: City at Play at Kunsthal Rotterdam presents more than 220 photographs, film, and color slides by a master of street photography.

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3 min
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Creating Photo Series That Stay With You
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Creating Photo Series That Stay With You

A strong photo series is built on rhythm, return, and detail. Here is how to turn a subject into a story that stays with the viewer.

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6 min
Ed van der Elsken. Up Close, at the Rijksmuseum
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Ed van der Elsken. Up Close, at the Rijksmuseum

In Ed van der Elsken. Up Close, the Rijksmuseum presents well-known and never-before-seen photographs, contact sheets, letters and film clips from his archive.

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Win Ralph Gibson’s Personal Leica
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Win Ralph Gibson’s Personal Leica

Blind Magazine and MPB are giving away Ralph Gibson’s personal Leica M Monochrom, including a Summilux 50mm lens and signed print.

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3 min
How a Professional Photographer Sees Things
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How a Professional Photographer Sees Things

A professional photographer sees light, atmosphere and body language differently—and it often shows immediately in the photos.

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3 min
Visie & inspiratie
Maria Austria Was Here - In Schattenberg
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Maria Austria Was Here - In Schattenberg

Maria Austria Was Here centers on Maria Austria's photographs, Schattenberg's history, and the stories of two families at Camp Westerbork.

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Low-Light Photography
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Low-Light Photography

Low-light photography explained: practical settings, techniques, and fast FUJIFILM X Series lenses for sharp results.

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3 min
Gary Williamson - Through Their Lens
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Gary Williamson - Through Their Lens

Sony and blind photographer Gary Williamson present the Through Their Lens photo collection for World Sight Day.

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4 min
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Camping Photography: Capture the Outdoors
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Camping Photography: Capture the Outdoors

Practical tips for capturing beautiful nature and landscape photos while camping, from gear and golden hour to creative night photography.

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World Press Photo Launches Queer Havens
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World Press Photo Launches Queer Havens

The Queer Havens exhibition by World Press Photo, in collaboration with Pride Photo, was scheduled for Amsterdam in summer 2025.

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Hans Withoos | The Joy of Life
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Hans Withoos | The Joy of Life

The colorful exhibition 'The Joy of Life' by photographic artist Hans Withoos was scheduled to feature 75 magical-realist works and his latest creations.

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Annie Leibovitz: Life Through A Lens
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Annie Leibovitz: Life Through A Lens

The documentary Life Through A Lens traces how Annie Leibovitz became an influential American portrait photographer over the course of more than thirty years.

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Playboy Photographer René de Haan
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Playboy Photographer René de Haan

Playboy Photographer René de Haan — At the time of publication, René de Haan had been photographing for Playboy since 1999.

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Annie Leibovitz Photographs Francis Ford Coppola
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Annie Leibovitz Photographs Francis Ford Coppola

Annie Leibovitz portrays Francis Ford Coppola in a remarkable photo series. Background and images featuring the renowned American photographer and director.

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2 min
Jasper Juinen Photographs Euro 2008
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Jasper Juinen Photographs Euro 2008

Interview with photographer Jasper Juinen about his work for Getty Images, sports photography, major events, and the profession of editorial photography.

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3 min
Photojournalist Geert van Kesteren
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Photojournalist Geert van Kesteren

Geert van Kesteren discusses a photograph of a cocoa-farming family in Ivory Coast and the painful consequences of poverty and unfair trade.

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2 min
Travel?
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Travel?

Travel photography: anyone who gets on a bicycle with a camera to photograph sheep on a nearby dike is doing travel photography, by Ben Seelt

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Jumping Dalí
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Jumping Dalí

Jumping Dalí: ‘One, two, three… four!’ And up goes the great surrealist artist Salvador Dalí.

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Martha Cooper, Passionate Photographer
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Martha Cooper, Passionate Photographer

Martha Cooper is far more than the grand dame of graffiti and hip-hop. This exhibition presented fifty years of street photography and documentary work.

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Documentary Photographer Taco Anema
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Documentary Photographer Taco Anema

Which photograph has stayed with documentary photographer Taco Anema? Discover why this particular image still resonates.

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1 min
Landscape Photography — Part 2
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Landscape Photography — Part 2

Part 2 covers technique and equipment, from cameras and lenses to long exposures, tripods, filters, and practical tips.

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2 min
Rare Color Photographs from World War II
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Rare Color Photographs from World War II

The NIOD holds 1,500 rare World War II color photographs by Alphons Hustinx, showing the occupation, destruction, and everyday life in the Netherlands.

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Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day
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Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day

Background article on Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day and pinhole photography: making photographs with a simple lensless camera.

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1 min
Viva Las Vegas
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Viva Las Vegas

Travel photography on the road to Las Vegas: Ben Seelt recounts a photographic road trip through California and Las Vegas.

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2 min
Annie Leibovitz Photographs Keith Richards
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Annie Leibovitz Photographs Keith Richards

Annie Leibovitz photographed Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards in a hotel room for Louis Vuitton’s global Core Values campaign.

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Landscape Photography - Part 1
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Landscape Photography - Part 1

In part one of this series, Hillebrand Breuker explores light and composition in landscape photography, from the golden hour to fog and cloud cover.

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2 min
Advertising Photographer Boudewijn Smit
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Advertising Photographer Boudewijn Smit

Which photo has stayed with advertising photographer Boudewijn Smit? Discover why this particular image still resonates with him.

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4 min
New Photographs by Miles Aldridge
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New Photographs by Miles Aldridge

New photographs by Miles Aldridge: a series full of character, color, and style. Discover his latest work at the time.

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5 min
The Hindenburg Disaster
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The Hindenburg Disaster

The story behind Sam Shere's famous photograph of the burning Hindenburg, the Lakehurst disaster, and his work as a news photographer.

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2 min
Morocco Really Is Fun
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Morocco Really Is Fun

Ben Seelt shares his experiences with street photography in Morocco, a stolen Nikon, and unexpected encounters along the way.

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3 min
Robert Knoth
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Robert Knoth

An interview with documentary photographer Robert Knoth about awards, working in dangerous regions, and his projects on nuclear disasters.

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Photography at Huis Marseille
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Photography at Huis Marseille

Exhibitions at Huis Marseille: Juul Kraijer / Chimaera, Revealing Reality / Andres Serrano, and Lionel Wendt / Ceylon

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Mapplethorpe – Look at the Pictures
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Mapplethorpe – Look at the Pictures

Kunsthal Rotterdam toont een grote overzichtstentoonstelling van Robert Mapplethorpe, samen met de documentaire Look at the pictures.

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Vincent Peters at Kunsthuis Amsterdam
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Vincent Peters at Kunsthuis Amsterdam

Kunsthuis Amsterdam presented the first retrospective in the Netherlands of renowned German photographer Vincent Peters.

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Photographs of Amsterdam Around 1900
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Photographs of Amsterdam Around 1900

Amsterdam 1900 - Foto’s van Olie, Breitner, Eilers en tijdgenoten. In Het Stadsarchief Amsterdam is de unieke expositie te zien.

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New at MAI: Peter van der Velde
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New at MAI: Peter van der Velde

New at MAI: photographer Peter van der Velde’s work has joined the Maria Austria Institute archive.

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2 min
New at MAI: Henny Riemens
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New at MAI: Henny Riemens

Henny Riemens’s photographs were newly added to the Maria Austria Institute (MAI) image archive.

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Jeroen Swolfs and Streets of the World
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Jeroen Swolfs and Streets of the World

The article described Jeroen Swolfs’s global street-photography project at a time when six countries still remained on his itinerary.

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Photographer Marc Lagrange Dies
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Photographer Marc Lagrange Dies

Photographer Marc Lagrange, 57, was killed in a traffic accident in Tenerife on Friday evening.

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New Anton Corbijn Film: Life
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New Anton Corbijn Film: Life

Anton Corbijn’s film Life follows the friendship between photographer Dennis Stock and actor James Dean during a road trip for LIFE Magazine.

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2 min
Original Autochromes on Display
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Original Autochromes on Display

Original autochromes on display. A newly developed technique has enabled the Kunstmuseum Den Haag and Leiden University to exhibit them safely.

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2 min
3,000 m² Photograph by Wim Tellier
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3,000 m² Photograph by Wim Tellier

Artist Wim Tellier creates large-scale art installations by integrating photographs into their surroundings as a form of landscape art.

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2 min
Drone Photography
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Drone Photography

Learn the basics of drone photography, from choosing a suitable drone to creating striking aerial photos and videos, with the rules as described in 2015.

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6 min
Photography in Nicaragua
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Photography in Nicaragua

Photography in Nicaragua: photographer and travel editor Tom van der Leij journeys from Peru to Mexico and describes what catches his eye along the way.

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