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

As well as working on a weekly magazine, running a website and our social media platforms, we’re often out taking photos, whether for gear reviews or just for pure enjoyment outside of work. Here’s a selection of our favourite photos taken in 2025

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…

2025 has been a bumper year for books. Peter Dench selects some highlights reviewed in AP

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As many as 300,000 displaced Gazans streamed northward on Jan. 27, after Israel reopened the Netzarim corridor, which bisects the Gaza Strip. Carrying their belongings in plastic bags and flour sacks