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Mark Power: The Patient Geometry of the World by Jerome D. Introduction Mark Power (b. 1959, Harpenden, England) is one of the most technically rigorous and conceptually ambitious photographers in Britain today — a full member of Magnum Photos since 2007 , a former Professor of Photography at the University of Brighton, and a photographer whose entire practice is built around the idea that a great photograph requires extraordinary patience, preparation, and precision. His path to photography was indirect. He studied Fine Art at Brighton Polytechnic (1978–1981), intending to become a painter, before travelling extensively through Southeast Asia and Australia, where he discovered that he enjoyed using a camera more than a pencil. He returned to England in 1983 and began working as a freelance photographer for publications and charities, joining the prestigious Network Photographers agency in 1988. It was chance that produced his first major body of work: he happened to be in...

Nikos Economopoulos: The Irrational Eye of the Balkans by Jerome D. Introduction Nikos Economopoulos (b. 1953, Kalamata, Peloponnese, Greece) is one of the most significant documentary photographers working in Europe today — a full member of Magnum Photos since 1994 , and the pre-eminent Greek photographer of his generation. His path to photography was indirect and unhurried. He studied law at university in Parma, Italy, and worked as a journalist for years before a chance encounter with a book of photographs changed everything. In 1977, at 23, a friend showed him a volume of Henri Cartier-Bresson's work . The effect was immediate and permanent: "Cartier-Bresson showed me a new way to see things. What I saw in his work was not only geometry and composition, but a kind of ambiguity." Even then, he did not rush. He spent two more years reading photography books before raising a camera. When he started shooting, he did it seriously from the first day: "I nev...

Raghu Rai: The Eye of India by Jerome D. Introduction Raghu Rai (18 December 1942 – 26 April 2026) was an Indian photographer and photojournalist widely regarded as the greatest chronicler of independent India — and, by many accounts, the finest photographer his country has ever produced. Born in the village of Jhang in Punjab, British India (now Pakistan), he trained as a civil engineer before discovering photography through his elder brother, the photographer S. Paul. His first published image — a donkey staring straight into the lens — appeared in The Times of London . He joined The Statesman newspaper in New Delhi as chief photographer in 1966 and never looked back. In 1971, the legendary Henri Cartier-Bresson , impressed by an exhibition of Rai's work at Galerie Delpire in Paris, nominated him to join Magnum Photos — making Rai the first and, for decades, the only Indian member of the world's most prestigious photography cooperative. He formally joined in 19...

Greg Mo: The Colour Dreamer of Asian Streets by Jerome D. This article contains sponsored links, I might earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Introduction Greg Mo (b. 1981, Paris) is a self-taught French street and conceptual photographer based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Over the past fifteen years, he has built one of the most distinctive bodies of work in contemporary Asian street photography — colour-drenched, surrealist in feel, and composed with an architect's sense of balance and geometry. His images of India, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Burma, and China feel pulled from a dream: vivid, layered, intriguing, and always slightly strange. Mo moved to Asia in 2008 during a six-month trip that became the starting point of his practice. He first came to broader attention with Sleep in Cambodia , a book documenting people sleeping in the streets of Phnom Penh in improbable positions, which appeared in 2011 and launched his more serious professional work. His l...

The Best Photo Printers for Professional-Looking Results If you have ever spent serious time getting an image right — calibrating exposure, working a scene, editing carefully in post — and then sent it to a consumer inkjet only to get a flat, muddy print back, you already know the problem.  Most printers are designed to handle documents and the occasional holiday snapshot. Getting a print that does justice to a carefully made photograph requires a different category of machine entirely. This guide focuses on the printers that photographers — from serious amateurs to working professionals — actually use when they want results that rival a print lab.  The market is essentially a choice between Canon and Epson. Other brands exist at the consumer level, but when it comes to dedicated photo printers worth taking seriously, these two dominate completely. Dye vs. Pigment: The First Decision Before looking at specific models, you need to understand the fundamental split in inkjet ...