Dedicated to mastering photography as a visual language, this book helps you explore what to shoot and how to understand your own work. With 21 detailed chapters on photography techniques and practices, Forbes teaches you not only to establish yourself as a photographer, but how to create a legacy.
Ted Forbes produces The Art of Photography, the most popular YouTube channel on photography, providing a 360-degree look into the world of image making. Forbes’ passion is to help amateurs, artists, and professionals alike gain new skills. Forbes calls on his expertise to instruct you on how to take pictures, and carefully walks readers through composition, lighting, exposure, contrast, color, alignment, balance, repetition, cameras, lenses, and more. Rising above a simple photography skills handbook, Forbes also offers advice on commitment, integrity, what it means to be an artist, and navigating the social media landscape.
Ted Forbes’ award-winning work centers around photography education. He has worked with many of the most renowned photographers of our generation as part of his Artist Series project, including Keith Carter, Harold Feinstein, Laura Wilson, Alexey Titarenko, Graciela Iturbide, Lourdes Grobet, William Wegman, David Brookover, and Pedro Meyer. He has also collaborated with companies including Apple, Leica, Hasselblad, Sony, Nikon, Canon, and Fujifilm.
For those who want to make the transition into the world of vocational photography—staying true to your craft and vision, while fusing that craft with commerce VisionMongers is a great place to begin your journey. With a voice equally realistic and encouraging, photographer David duChemin discusses the experiences he’s had, the lessons he’s learned, and the practices he’s adopted in his own winding journey to becoming a successful working photographer.
TBW Books is pleased to announce Blood Green, a new artist book by Curran Hatleberg, conceived as a coda to the artist’s acclaimed 2022 monograph, River’s Dream. Blood Green offers an alternate vision—less an outtake than a parallel dream, a shadow of the original, expanding on the darker themes of contemporary American life.
Between 1979 and 1989 the American photographer, David Katzenstein used a series
of Kodak Duaflex cameras, the first of which he purchased at a yard sale in 1975.
Brownie (Hirmer; September 19, 2025, $55) represents the culmination of ten years
experimenting with color photography and using the limitations of the camera as a
way to expand his creative boundaries.
Daido Moriyama (b. 1938) spent his groundbreaking and illustrious career
photographing the streets of Tokyo, exploring the city’s gritty underbelly with his handheld film
camera. His black-and-white photographs—which feature subjects from train passengers to a
car on fire to aerial views of postwar Tokyo—reveal Moriyama’s dramatic documentary style as
he plays with light and shadow. Moriyama’s prolific work is marked by his sharp eye for
subjects, use of heavy contrast, and tilted images.
In 2017 photographer Merlin Daleman embarked on a journey through the economic North of the UK. Originally from the West Midlands, Daleman has lived in the Netherlands for most of his adult life. Driven by curiosity to understand the divisions in the UK made evident in the 2016 referendum, he returned to photograph. He revisited the previously familiar with the eyes of an outsider.
One of the world's most celebrated photojournalists and filmmakers, Ed Kashi has dedicated the past 45 years to documenting the social and geopolitical issues that define our era. His newest book, A Period in Time: Looking Back while Moving Forward: 1977–2022, is a stunning and expansive retrospective of photographs spanning the world and his prolific career. Over 200 images collected in this book reflect his commitment to bear witness. Essays and contextual writings combine with the photographs to provide a personal, in-depth look at significant historical events.
Nick Brandt presents a new photography book to be published by Skira Editore with a launch at his new solo exhibition at Hangar Art Center in September
Family Amnesia is a visual tribute and love letter honoring the artist's Chinese American family roots in the United States. The book explores her family's multi-generational resilience and resistance through mixed media collages, her grandfather’s photographs, her own captured images and archival material.
In July, Aperture will release Todd Hido: Intimate
Distance, Over Thirty Years of Photographs, A Chronological Album, a newly
assembled, chronological album compiling over thirty years of Hido’s
photographs, including a selection of new works.
