The act of looking

Ben Geier’s photographs affectionately capture fast-vanishing relics of ’50s and ’60s roadside Americana. He aims to find subjects that evoke a sense of nostalgia and solitude, he tells David Clark

THOMAS W SCHALLER IS AN INTERNATIONALLY-ACCLAIMED WATERCOLOUR ARTIST based in New York. He is the winner of numerous awards, including from the Institute of Classical Art and Architecture, the America

Si Jubb captures the quietly surreal and tender moments of everyday British life through his observational photography

I knew at a very young age I was an artist. It was a calling for me. I was also fortunate to have a mentor in my teenage years; he was an accomplished artist and professor of art at a local college. H

A new book of bird photography celebrates not only the avian world, but the photographers using creative techniques to produce original artworks, from characterful studio portraits to eye-catching abstracts, writes Graeme Green

Seventy years after it opened at MoMA, Edward Steichen’s The Family of Man remains one of photography’s most ambitious and debated exhibitions. Peter Dench travels to its permanent home to find out what still makes it click