If you’re planning to enter our Urban Life round, which launches next week, take these tips from four of last year’s top ten photographers

Deputy Editor Geoff Harris shares the pleasures – and quirky charms – of the unique Fujifilm X Half camera

John Wade reviews a strangely eccentric British-made camera

Lee Miller’s artistic and historical sensibility

Andy Westlake assesses a unique telephoto lens for extreme close-up photography

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