Epic stories

Nigerian photographer Oyewole Lawal’s project about the waste miners of Lagos is a stunning and important series. Britta Jaschinski finds out more

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

A country defined by beauty, celebration and incredible food, cook Ixta Belfrage takes us on a mouth-watering journey through a few of her favourite regions

While photographing lifesavers, Benedict Brain stumbles into a new potential long-term project

Nature as spectacle – curated, chlorinated and utterly controlled. Zed Nelson’s images are beautiful, bleak, and impossible to ignore, says Peter Dench

We love moaning. The raw file won’t open, the firmware update wiped your settings. But spare a thought for the early adopters – when digital photography meant ghostly battery life, media cards that could barely hold a lunch break, colours that made everything look a bit ill. Peter Dench hears from top shooters about those early frustrations and breakthroughs, and adds his own…