Amateur Photographer Magazine

23 August, 2025

Macro Special! This popular genre can be enjoyed all year, with an inexhaustible range of subjects, from bugs to bolts. We talk to award-winning macro photographer David Joseph; and we also have lots of gear advice, including the best lenses and phones for macro, and prize-winners’ macro kit picks. Don’t miss the winners of the macro round of our International APOY contest too. Beyond close-ups, we reveal the winners of the RPS’s print exhibition and look back on 40 years of protest photography