Photo Blog

At a time when outdoor portraiture was far less common, Hermann Carl Eduard Biewend enjoyed photographing members of his family outside, like his two children blowing bubbles in a garden.

Employing an unexpected technique, Spring Hurlbut spreads thin layers of human or animal ash across a black surface, then photographs the resulting composition.

Eriko Kimura, curator of Hanran: 20th-Century Japanese Photography, shares stories behind a selection of photographs from the exhibition, from a present-day perspective.

Can an art prize foster community and reward individual excellence? When the New Generation Photography Award was established in 2017, three equal prizes were created, rather than one.

In anticipation of the demand for multiple, small-format prints, André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri patented the carte-de-visite in 1854, an invention that would forever change portrait photography.

Following an internship at the Canadian Photography Institute, Nicholas Cote recommends these five books (plus a few more) to anyone who is as enthusiastic about Japanese photography as he is.