The landscapes of Spanish-born photographer Daniel Beltrá help convey the urgent need for environmental conservation in the world’s most ecologically sensitive regions. By Hermon Joyner From the air, Daniel Beltrá records a dramatic Greenpeace protest about deforestation in Para State, Brazil. The...

After establishing himself as a painter and sculptor, this Los Angeles artist has turned to the medium of photography to create his asymmetrical, multi-dimensional cityscapes. By Adam Crawford Jeremy Kidd spent parts of five separate days to record the tumult of New York City’s Times Square in various...

Story By Randy Woods © Matt Freedman & Chef Tiberio Simone The old saying “you are what you eat” takes on new meaning in this nude study by Seattle photographer Matt Freedman. Shot for a proposed book project, “Citrus” is part of an ongoing series of images created jointly by Freedman and...

Capturing the magic of imperfection with iPhone camera apps By Richard A. Huston © Richard A. Huston My Facebook page is filled with new comments: “Wow, that is a great photo!” “I can’t believe you still have a Holga!” “You’re still shooting slides?” “Where do you get Polaroid film?”...

For more than half a century, photographer Melvin Sokolsky has blazed a trail across the fashion, celebrity and advertising world with his uniquely personal point of view. By Barry Schwartz Melvin Sokolsky was 18 years old, on his way to look at a studio to share in New York. He was with his girlfriend...

With a passion for travel, Erik Almas expands the boundaries of the typical studio photographer, often including sweeping landscape elements in his commercial images. By Herman Joyner It’s December, and Erik Almas is a long way from home. For most of his life, Almas called Norway home; now San Francisco...

Through new distribution platforms, multimedia formats and teamwork, today’s photojournalists are trying to resurrect a moribund industry. By Randy Woods BREAKING NEWS – Photojournalism, the use of images to tell stories and convey information about topical events, from the Crimean War to...

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Rick Loomis always remembers to put people first when telling his visual stories. By Hermon Joyner I might die.” That was the thought running through the head of Rick Loomis, photojournalist with The Los Angeles Times, while he was embedded with a company...

No matter the obstacle, this well-published, Santa Fe-based nature shooter and educator has found a way to thrive in the competitive world of wildlife – and now landscape – photography. By Eric Rudolph It’s March in a southern Oregon marsh. Two black-necked stilts – long-legged...

Entomologist and photographer Mark Moffett uses his magnified  images to tell the larger-than-life stories of the natural world. By P.J. Heller On the outside, Mark Moffett may be 51 years of age. But deep down inside, he’s still a shy little kid wandering through the woods, searching for bugs,...