Those tall buildings bounce light and throw hard shade. If you add some flurries to the mix, the fleeting nature of your surroundings becomes strikingly apparent. Looking at it, you can feel yourself exhale and enjoy a bit of warmth as you pass through a column of sunlight. Toronto has the third-largest skyline in North […]

Amongst the forests, lakes and fields of the Brandenburg countryside, the canola fields turn an impossibly bright yellow and signal the arrival of spring. From far away they can seem like an apparition, the strips of yellow cut by green fields and dark tree lines. You need to get very close to break the abstraction. […]

In most big cities, you don’t often see the horizon. With broad boulevards and publicly accessible elevations, Berlin is a uniquely illuminated European capital. Modern mass public transport, large open squares and plenty of glass turn the city into a pinball machine of light. Depending on the weather and time of year, your commute to […]

Just south of Bodø, the Saltstraumen Bridge crosses a narrow channel between two large bodies of water. As the tide changes, enormous volumes of water are pushed through this bottleneck, turning an otherwise quiet-looking strait into a fast-moving surface of currents and whirlpools. From the shore, the scale is strangely difficult to judge — until […]

Sydney is famous for its coastal rock pools. Mona Vale is perhaps the simplest and, perhaps unexpectedly, its most iconic. Hewn into a sandstone rock shelf, it has little infrastructure beyond concrete walls and lights. This natural, minimal setting is always changing. At high tide, the surrounding rock shelf disappears beneath the waves, leaving an […]

The Exa Ia is a mechanical 35mm SLR made by Ihagee Dresden in East Germany in the 1960s. It was an everyday consumer camera rather than a rarity, and you can still find them fairly easily in Berlin — mine came from a collector, in near-mint condition, for €25. A Great Starter for Analog Photography […]

Double exposures come from exposing the same film frame twice — taking a picture and not winding the film forward. Digital cameras offer similar capabilities, often with the benefit of seeing the first exposure. As with most things, though, the unexpected is more compelling. Change the focus, perspective, timing, or almost any other factor and […]

In the southern highlands around Landmannalaugar, your usual geological references simply do not map onto the landscape in front of you. If you had fallen asleep on the ride in — which you can’t, because it’s too bumpy — and awoken in this place, you might wonder if you’re still on the same planet. Everything […]

In the early days of Instagram it was common to put a heavy, nostalgic filter over your snaps. However while that trend has dissipated, photographers are increasingly going back to film photography. There are a number of reasons for this trend – certainly there is a general trend towards a kind of digital detox which […]