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…

This friendly Somerset group are at all skill levels, and focus on a love of taking pictures, not kit

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

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

The search for still-life subjects led the artist Kate Friend to some of the greatest gardens and gardeners in the country, discovers Tiffany Daneff

The weekend of 5-7 September marked the inaugural Strange Days Festival of Forteana. Organiser Matt Page’s promise of ‘The most extraordinary weekend of your life’ was spot-on. Strange Days took place