Our pick of the best titles about photography published this year – each one will make an ideal festive season gift for lovers of the medium…

The award-winning photographer has just published a book about how to succeed in the medium. Niall Hampton finds out more

PHYSICAL STORAGE Store small USB sticks in craft boxes I’ve just started transferring MP3 files to small USB sticks to use in the appropriate socket in my Bluetooth speaker. But storage as usual with

Burning question about the future of photography? Want to discuss a feature or a tutorial in the magazine? Then send us your letters and photos

COLOUR IN THE GARDEN : STYLISH IDEAS FOR YEAR-ROUND COLOUR by Lucy Bellamy Mitchell Beazley, £25 ISBN 978-1784729349 ‘I am hungry for colour. I want jam red and acid yellow, violet blue and caterpilla

Like many artists, I often develop designs for paintings from photographic reference, despite its still being thought of by many as cheating. They argue that it is only by working directly from the su