Category: Creativity

The photo team at The New Yorker assigned more breaking-news commissions this year than ever before. From breaking-news photographs to portraits composed for magazine features, here are some of our favorite pictures of the year.

For this article, I wanted to explore printing cell phone photographs. The question I asked myself was, “Is it possible to produce high-quality prints with my mobile phone?” The answer is yes, but with a few caveats. Here are five keys to printing great images from a cell phone (as a side note, all the images for this article, including the photos of me holding the prints, were taken with an iPhone X).

Do you want to give an interesting touch to your Instagram feed? There are many ways to organize your profile’s grid and in this new Tutpad tutorial we’ll teach you to plan your own without recurring to apps, turning it into something unique.

This a post is a comparison between Old and New Ektachrome or E100 – but first an amusing story about how these two rolls met. Long story short: I left my job at a film lab to reconnect with a someone I have loved for many years and haven’t seen for the last two.

Stereoscopic GIFs (also called twitchy GIFs) like the one above and on these pages: … are awesome, but what if you want to convert old stereoscopic photos into the digital age quickly and cheaply? (Negatives and slides are another issue. I’ll address how to cheaply scan these in a future post.)

Every day, 400 million people open up Instagram and flip through Stories, the app’s short, ephemeral photo and video updates from people they follow. Since its launch in 2016, Stories has become a popular way for people to share more about their lives-and more often.

What does winter look like to you? Is it outside, scaling snowy summits? Walking through frozen fields, composing your perfect shot of nature? Capturing the enduring wildlife around you? Making sense of the grey skies?

The mall, removed. The cheesy decor, gone. The long lines, nope. Santa Sessions have become all-the-rage and photographers are making these shoots more of a high end experience. I witnessed a shoot first hand and to be honest, $10k seems to be just the tip of the iceberg. Here’s what I learned.

Jimmy Chin hardly needs an introduction. The National Geographic contributor and co-director of and is one of the most recognizable photographers in the world (he has, for example, 1.9 million Instagram followers). He’s also a world-class athlete.

Landscape and nature photographer Ben Horne fondly remembers his first ever trip to Zion National Park in Utah. He was seven years old and his family went on a summer camping trip from California to Montana, stopping at many parks…