Spotlight on readers’ excellent images and how they captured them

Two photographers, two very different journeys. As Leica celebrates a century of image-making, the 2025 Oskar Barnack Awards honour Alejandro Cegarra’s searing study of migration and Serghei Duve’s intimate meditation on memory and identity. Peter Dench finds out more

Being in the right place at the right time can be more important than long hours,

If you borrowed a top rider’s headphones, what would you hear? Bethany Stone finds out

Nicole Brown on her trajectory from fangirling Mary King to commentating alongside Ian Stark – and how her curious nature has stood her in good stead

Nick Teo creates collaborative portraits that celebrate marginalised communities while drawing on his own experience of neurodivergence, writes Peter Dench