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…

The award-winning photographer has just published a book about how to succeed in the medium. Niall Hampton finds out more

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Jonathon Isola, Chandler, Arizona, USA

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

Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the