Stretching yourself creatively

Today’s gardeners can take digital photographs of plants in the blink of an eye. But horticulturally trained cyanotype artist Sophie Cook has returned to photography’s analogue beginnings, working wit

Persistence pays off as Benedict Brain battles with his remote trigger on a bus in Malaysia

When Thomas Joshua Cooper and Paul Hill set out in 1974 to meet and interview the ‘movers and shakers’ of 20th-century photography (see Dialogue with Legends, AP 1 April) they had no idea that the project would take four years and become a unique archive that is still in print. Paul Hill describes the first interview – American photographer Paul Strand in Paris – that kicked it off, followed by extracts from the recorded encounter

Can’t get out on safari? Let the wildlife come to you with these beautiful books. Amy Davies selects some recent releases for your shelf

The celebrity mystics who captivated Europe in the interwar years

American photographer Dudley Edmondson grew up with a shortage of prominent black role models in photography, natural history and conservation – something he’s worked to rectify for future generations in his work. He spoke to Graeme Green