Scanning ahead…

1 min read

Photography is more than taking pictures, says Jon Devo, it defines the wor

This article is from...

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…

Amateur Photographer

The anthropocene illusion

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

Amateur Photographer

Final analysis

Alíz Kovács-Zöldi considers…

Amateur Photographer

The dawn of digital – and what followed

DIGITAL 50 YEARS

Amateur Photographer

What looks like a toaster and shoots 0.01mp images?

Answer: the first digital camera – John Wade explains how it all began

Amateur Photographer

Reader portfolio

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

Amateur Photographer

First exposure

Amateur Photographer

The anthropocene illusion

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

Amateur Photographer

Final analysis

Alíz Kovács-Zöldi considers…

Amateur Photographer

The dawn of digital – and what followed

DIGITAL 50 YEARS

Amateur Photographer

What looks like a toaster and shoots 0.01mp images?

Answer: the first digital camera – John Wade explains how it all began

Amateur Photographer

Reader portfolio

Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them