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,

Works by certain artists often become symbolic of a particular era. This is an angle which has proved very popular with visitors to London’s National Gallery in recent years and, this month, welcomes

Damien Demolder considers...

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