Daniele Colucci is a visual storyteller and documentary photographer whose work explores the unfiltered human experience. Originally from Southern Italy, his approach has been shaped by immersing himself in diverse cultures through years of solo travel around the world. After working as a commercial video editor and photographer in Sydney and Toronto, he decided to document events that reveal extreme cultural expressions, such as the Vegetarian Festival in Thailand, the Exploding Hammers Festival in Mexico, and the Tinku ritual in Bolivia.
Award-winning Palestinian photographer Ahmad Al-Bazz presents a groundbreaking new work, The Erasure of Palestine, the result of a three-year journey documenting the remnants of hundreds of Palestinian villages and towns depopulated and destroyed from 1948 to the present. Through his lens, Al-Bazz confronts history, memory, and contemporary occupation, offering a stark counter-narrative to the dominant historical record.
Street Macadam announces the results of the 2nd edition of the Street Macadam B&W Awards, an international competition dedicated to black-and-white street and documentary photography.Open to photographers from around the world, the awards invited both amateur and professional participants to explore this year’s theme, “Daily Life.” The selected images reflect the quiet intensity, tension, and poetry of everyday moments, captured across diverse cultural and social contexts.
Last week, Cuban-Lebanese American artist and educator Ania Moussawel was awarded the highly prestigious Photography Fellowship from the Oscar Cintas Foundation. The fellowship, which comes with a $25,000 stipend, will support Moussawel in realizing a proposed project that continues her exploration of memory, family, and the intimate textures of everyday life.
UNESCO’s World Water Assessment Programme and Onewater have revealed the winners of the Global Walk of Water Photography Contest, a celebration of water, identity, and human connection. This year’s edition, themed “Identities”, attracted nearly 1,000 submissions from 114 countries, exploring how water shapes lives, traditions, professions, and communities around the world. The winning stories will serve as a visual prelude to UN World Water Day 2026, focusing on the crucial topic of Water and Gender.
With Cockaigne, Austrian photographer Gregor Sailer directs his gaze toward the largely unseen machinery of contemporary food production. Drawing inspiration from the medieval legend of the “Land of Cockaigne” — a fantasy of limitless abundance — Sailer examines the very real systems, technologies, and infrastructures that underpin how food is produced, distributed, and controlled today. The book challenges readers to rethink ideas of nourishment, consumption, and collective responsibility.
As an artist, I am inspired by the memories and objects that connect me to my past. "My Father's Toys" is a deeply personal project that explores the cherished wind-up tin toys from my father's collection that played such a significant role in my childhood.
AAP Magazine is pleased to announce the 25 winning photographers of Issue #54: Nature, an international photography competition celebrating the beauty and diversity of the natural world. This edition brings together a vibrant selection of photographic projects from around the globe, each offering a unique and captivating view of nature in its many forms.
The Gordon Parks Foundation is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a yearlong series of exhibitions, publications, fellowships and events, all of which will highlight how the legacy of Gordon Parks (1912–2006) continues to inform contemporary artistic practice in new and innovative ways. Since its founding in 2006 to steward Parks’ multifaceted work as a photographer, musician, writer and filmmaker, the Foundation has steadily grown and expanded its capacity to provide crucial support to emerging, mid-career and late-career artists across a wide variety of disciplines. This focus on interdisciplinarity is at the heart of both the Foundation and the legacy of Parks himself, who believed unreservedly in the power of art to be a catalyst for social change and to illuminate the human condition.
In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement was signed in Belfast, signaling peace following 30 years of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland known as The Troubles. Photographer Julie McCarthy photographed annually for five years on Shankill Road, a one-mile Protestant/Loyalist enclave running parallel to the Catholic/Republican area. A wall called the “Peace Wall” divides the two communities.
Whether you’re a professional photographer or a passionate photography enthusiast, discovering outstanding photography portfolios online can be both inspiring and overwhelming. With so many talented image-makers working across the globe, it’s easy to miss work that truly stands out and deserves wider recognition.
That’s where All About Photo comes in.
Each month, through our Call for Entries, we curate and showcase a selection of modern photographers—artists whose work reflects contemporary approaches, evolving visual languages, and relevant themes shaping photography today. These photographers may be at any stage of their career; what defines them as modern is their vision, creativity, technical excellence, and ability to tell powerful stories through images.
Our curated selection serves as a gateway to discovering distinctive voices and bold perspectives that are influencing the current photography landscape.
Below is our selection of modern photographers for January 2026. We hope these discoveries inspire your creativity and introduce you to photographers whose work you’ll continue to follow and appreciate over time.
We’re excited to introduce 10 rising photographers to watch in January 2026, spotlighting artists whose work is gaining recognition and shaping the future of contemporary photography—regardless of age or career stage. This carefully curated selection highlights photographers from around the world who are making a strong impact through originality, innovation, and compelling visual storytelling.
From powerful street photography and immersive travel imagery to conceptual and fine art photography, these artists bring diverse perspectives and refined creative voices. Their work reflects experience, intention, and a fresh approach to the photographic medium, proving that rising talent is defined by vision and influence.
Each month, we discover outstanding photographers through our international photography competitions. This January 2026 collection celebrates creatives who are currently on the rise—artists whose work is resonating with audiences and redefining modern photography.
Explore these inspiring images and discover photographers whose evolving practices spark curiosity, creativity, and a deeper appreciation for the art of photography. Let their work inspire your own visual journey.
The swimming hole only varies in size each season from about 20 to 40 square
feet, but the range in human experience within this small area is remarkable. I have been
photographing my fellow cold water plungers at the same swimming hole (a slightly
different one each winter) since 2022. In this small space, there is both stillness and
silliness. There is pain and joy and peace. The variety of human experience and
expression I have captured in this limited area seems to expand beyond its boundaries.
From 12 January, Britain’s everyday landscapes take on a new role. High streets become exhibition halls. Bus shelters become frames. Railway platforms and shopping centres transform into places of quiet reflection. With the launch of Portrait of Britain Vol. 8, photography steps out of the gallery and into public life—where it belongs.
The Intertidal Project delves into the concept that there’s a difference between what we see and what we are aware of. The work records the moments of impact when a person, time, and place intersect leaving an indelible imprint upon them both. With each recurring instance new layers of memory are forged like geological strata. By growing conscious of these cumulative memories, we can reveal the unfolding of time.
For more than thirty years, Photoworks has been at the heart of photography culture in the UK and beyond, nurturing artists, commissioning new work, and creating opportunities for people to engage deeply with the medium. Founded in 1995 from the Cross Channel Photographic Mission, Photoworks has grown into a nationally and internationally recognised charity that supports photographers and visual thinkers at every stage of their careers.
We invite dedicated and passionate photographers from all around the world to share their work in our printed edition. Each issue is central to a specific theme and provides a gallery of inspiring imagery, focusing on each artist with their own experience to share.
With an eye towards beauty, quality and novelty, we strive to promote portfolios which stand out for their unique visual signature style and character. Our goal is to help photographers get the exposure we think they deserve and to inspire the others with ideas, projects and goals to help develop their own photography.
Anastasia Samoylova: Atlantic Coast opens a vast, quietly unsettling portrait of the American East Coast — one in which nostalgia, dislocation and transformation are sewn into the landscape itself. In this new monograph, Samoylova retraces the route pioneered by Berenice Abbott in 1954, journeying from Florida to Maine to revisit the places Abbott once documented, and to observe what has become of them decades later. Her images — in vivid color and stark black and white — reveal the tension between myth and reality, between promises of progress and the traces of decay or displacement.
Where once small towns and coastal communities had a certain stillness, Samoylova finds change carved into facades and roadside signs, into suburban sprawl and shuttered shopfronts. She frames these scenes with a photographer’s patience and a poet’s sensitivity — capturing abandoned diners, empty motels, decaying houses, ghostly intersections. At the same time, there is stubborn life: occasional portraits of people, wildlife, reminders that behind every sign of decline, someone, something endures.
Her book does not simply document physical places. It traces the shifting contours of identity, belonging and memory in a nation where the open road has long symbolized freedom — and where that ideal has become tangled with consumerism, environmental degradation, and socio-economic upheaval. Through Atlantic Coast, Samoylova asks whether the “American Dream” remains intact, or if it has fractured along with the towns her car passes through.
Reading this volume is to experience a slow, attentive journey — as a witness, as a traveller, as someone invited to reconsider what America has become. Her photographs linger, subtly unsettling the viewer’s assumptions about beauty, progress and decline. In its silence and restraint, the book whispers that memory, identity and place are fragile — and that every road carries stories worth listening to.
Coreen Simpson: A Monograph is the first major book dedicated to the influential photographer and jewelry designer whose career spans more than fifty years. As the second volume in the Vision & Justice Book Series—a groundbreaking initiative created by Dr. Sarah Lewis and coedited with Drs. Leigh Raiford and Deborah Willis—the monograph celebrates Simpson’s enduring impact on visual culture.
Simpson began her career as a journalist before turning to photography, capturing the richness of Black life, fashion, and identity. Her portraits of icons such as Grace Jones, Muhammad Ali, and Toni Morrison, as well as her iconic B-Boys series from the 1980s, showcase her eye for style, pride, and self-expression. The book also features her later work with collage and overpainting, alongside the story of her celebrated jewelry line, including the iconic Black Cameo worn by Rosa Parks and Rihanna.
Featuring original essays by leading voices such as Bridget R. Cooks, Rujeko Hockley, Awol Erizku, and Doreen St. Félix, as well as an in-depth interview by Deborah Willis, Coreen Simpson: A Monograph offers a multifaceted portrait of an artist whose work continues to shape the worlds of photography, fashion, and Black cultural history.
Explore the groundbreaking early work of Daido Moriyama, one of Japan’s most radical photographers, with this collectible, slipcased photobook.
Daido Moriyama (b. 1938) is one of Japan’s most renowned and prolific photographers. His diverse projects often focus on urban landscapes, exploring light and shadow, and form and abstraction. Using a handheld camera and high-contrast black-and-white film, Moriyama captures Tokyo’s chaotic streets and clandestine underbelly, revealing the darkness and strangeness beneath the surface.
Daido Moriyama: Quartet is a vital anthology of the four seminal photobooks that form the foundation of Moriyama’s career as a photographer: Japan: A Photo Theater, A Hunter, Farewell Photography, and Light and Shadow. Spanning the fifteen years during which he honed his techniques and unveiled his distinctive vision, these photobooks were originally released as limited editions in Japan and represent some of the most daring ventures in photographic publishing history. Edited by Mark Holborn, this compilation includes excerpts from Moriyama’s diaries, journals, and memoranda, offering intimate glimpses into the core of his creative process. Presented in a slipcase, this volume is essential for all Moriyama fans and anyone passionate about photography and visual culture.
An essential introduction to the complexities of visual representation, this book offers a critical new framework for understanding and practicing photojournalism in a global digital context.
Critical Photojournalism guides readers through a variety of ethical, technical and business skills, plus the mental health, self-care and safety considerations necessary to thrive in the field. Drawing on their extensive industry and teaching experience, the authors provide real-world advice on how to navigate the demands of the profession while addressing the impact that photojournalism has on society and ways that photojournalists can mitigate harm. Consideration is given to understanding and disrupting implicit bias and power structures in newsrooms, as well as issues around access, working in breaking news environments and balancing informed consent with varying media laws around the world. In accessible language, this book highlights the importance of collaboration and community engagement in contemporary photojournalism and encourages students to adopt a decolonial approach to their work. Readers will learn to balance the needs for accuracy and thoughtfulness with the priorities of a global, social-media-engaged audience.
This is a key textbook for those seeking a nuanced introduction to visual journalism and/or a fresh approach to their craft. This book is supported by a website which can be accessed at www.criticalphotojournalism.com. The website includes a full-length bonus chapter on video and photojournalism, interviews with professional visual journalists, further tips and tools, and a glossary of key terms.
The Sony a7 V emerges as a versatile powerhouse for photographers and videographers who need a single camera to handle everything from high-speed action to long-form multimedia projects. Combining a hybrid full-frame design with Sony’s latest AI-driven autofocus and subject recognition, it is a camera that can work as hard as its user demands. Its compact body belies the technological depth within, delivering performance traditionally expected from flagship models while remaining approachable for daily use.
At its core, the a7 V features a 33MP Exmor RS CMOS sensor, partially stacked for faster readout speeds and reduced rolling shutter. Coupled with the new BIONZ XR2 processor, the cam
The Fujifilm X-E5 mirrorless camera feels like a deliberate return to photographic essentials, paired with thoroughly modern performance. Its compact, rangefinder-inspired body recalls a time when cameras were designed to be carried daily, not merely stored in padded cases. Yet beneath this understated exterior lies Fujifilm’s most advanced APS-C technology, offering a balance that will appeal to photographers who value both craftsmanship and cutting-edge capability. The X-E5 is clearly aimed at those who enjoy direct engagement with their camera, particularly in fast-moving street and travel environments.
At the core of the X-E5 is the 40.2MP X-Trans 5 HR sensor and X-Processor 5, a co
The Godox AD300Pro Outdoor Flash strikes a thoughtful balance between power, portability, and practicality, making it a compelling companion for photographers who prefer to work untethered. Weighing in at under three pounds and built around a clean monolight design, it feels purpose-made for location work, yet remains equally comfortable in a controlled studio setting. Godox has clearly focused on mobility here, offering a tool that fits easily into a compact kit while still delivering the authority expected from a professional flash.
Performance is where the AD300Pro quietly asserts itself. Its output range spans nine stops, allowing precise control from subtle fill to decisive illuminat
The Sony RX1R III occupies a rare position in the digital camera world, offering uncompromising image quality within a body small enough to disappear into daily life. It is a camera built on the enduring idea that limitation can inspire clarity, pairing a fixed 35mm lens with one of Sony’s most advanced full-frame sensors. Rather than chasing modularity, the RX1R III refines a focused concept, delivering professional-level performance in a form that encourages constant use rather than careful planning.
At the heart of the camera lies a 61-megapixel back-illuminated sensor capable of extraordinary detail and tonal depth. Images display a striking sense of clarity, supported by wide dynam