Everything tagged Available Light

Did a Polish photographer get carried away trying to capture every household in the country?

I traveled to Stockholm to ask photographer Anders Petersen how he takes his photos—and got a some very different answers than I expected.

Gerda Taro didn’t just help invent one of the world’s most famous photographers. Briefly, she was him.

Vitas Luckus was too revolutionary a photographer to be accepted. But his is no ordinary rebel’s story.

Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo captured something that cannot be seen.

Why a Chilean photographer quit fame in pursuit of mysticism and solitude.

We like to say that the camera doesn’t lie. But the reality it captures isn’t quite true either.

Tina Modotti's portrait is all the more powerful because we'll know what will happen to her.

What the Decisive Moment means for originality.

Photographic lessons from a radical 1920s approach to art.

Why looking at the past in color is such an uncanny experience.

I am launching a podcast! It's called Available Light and it is about photography.