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

One of the best-known names in railway photography, Colin Marsden takes up the mantle of this month’s 10 Pictures feature. The former railwayman is also a well-known author who during the last five de

Kerry James Marshall, ‘poised between narrative and allegory’

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

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

Andrew Graham-Dixon tells Carla Passino why he thinks we have read Vermeer wrong all along– and who the Girl with a Pearl Earring really is