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.
Born in Madagascar and raised in Kenya, celebrated documentary photographer Guillaume Bonn has dedicated over 20 years to exploring and chronicling wildlife conservation practices, vanishing landscapes, and the implementation of landscape and wildlife preservation in East Africa.
First appearing in the English language in the sixteenth century as an adjective meaning “strange,” “odd,” or “peculiar,” queer was used to refer to nonnormative behavior, dress, and lifestyle. It was only in the mid-twentieth century, and mainly in the United States and Europe, that a generalized notion of a shared identity began to cohere in a way that we might recognize today, inclusive of men, women, and trans people who saw their sexuality and gender identity as constitutive of their sense of self. The advent of photography as a medium and its power to capture a subject—representing reality, or a close approximation—has inherently been linked with the construction and practice of identity. Since the camera’s invention in 1839, and despite periods of severe homophobia, the photographic art form has been used by and for individuals belonging to dynamic LGBTQ+ communities, helping shape and affirm queer culture and identity across its many intersections.
In her latest book, I Still Speak Southern In My Head, Nancy Richards Farese creates collages that incorporate threads, beads, buttons and cloth with family archive images and recent photographs to create a complex visual memoir in which Farese reexamines her childhood growing up in the South in the 60s. Some of the cultural tropes resonating with the Southern experience that she considers and questions include the culture of segregation, views on female-gendered roles, and the intersections between what we experience as children and what we learn about those experiences and memories of place, home, and family once we've grown.
With her photographs of humanity, the soul and the self study, she wins awards at international photographic competitions including Sony World Photography Awards. Now a photographer and neuroscientist Ivana Dostalova publishes a book of her most interesting photographs from the last ten years of her photographic work and visual and photographic research. The book called IMAGERY OF BEING with the subtitle CALEIDOSCOPE OF MIND is published in cooperation with the international publisher Snap Collective and will contain more than 120 photographs, many of them never seen or published before, and author´s own insights into consciousness.
We’re thrilled to partner with Peter Caton for the launch of his Kickstarter campaign to bring his powerful book, Unyielding Floods, to life. Set for publication in September, this book sheds light on one of the most devastating yet overlooked climate crises in the world today.
If there’s one thing that sets "WildLOVE" by Pedro Jarque Krebs apart from the myriad of wildlife photography books, it’s the profound intimacy and empathy captured in every page. A work of both beauty and boldness, the book brings us face-to-face with wildlife in a way that is rarely seen. Through Krebs’ lens, animals are not distant, untouchable beings; they become relatable, full of personality, and—most importantly—emotion.
How can you go home when a leopard is sleeping in your bed? Most of us go through life caught up in rituals so convincing that we confuse them for the real world, all tenuously tied together by the thin red line we call family. And yet we often ask ourselves, who are these people in my house?
For almost six decades, Stephen Shames has documented the world as an award-winning photojournalist. Through his photography, he uncovers the raw emotions and deeper truths behind both global, political issues and private, personal ones. From chronicling the Black Panther movement in Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers, to exposing the silent crisis of child poverty in Outside the Dream: Child Poverty in America, Shames’ work consistently highlights the humanity at the heart of struggle and survival.
Terza Vita, a third life. This enchanting book delves into the rebirth of interpersonal relationships among adolescents after a two-year compulsory break. Mar Sáez photographs the reappearing residents, and, above all, the yearning young lovers, in sensual, almost dancing attitudes, reflecting the classical images of sculptures and paintings offered up by the eternal city of Rome.
