Inspiration Archives

This photographer shot his own wet plate passport photos

Mar 21, 2019 John Aldred

I love seeing the wet plate experiments of Austrian photographer Markus Hofstätter. He’s so prolific with them that when he decides to do something interesting it…

Why is the photography community so toxic?

Mar 20, 2019 John Aldred

This is a pretty interesting video from Manny Ortiz talking about an observation that I think a lot of people have come to notice over the…

Can you be a successful fashion photographer outside a big city?

Mar 19, 2019 Olivia Bossert

I went to university in a beautiful little town called Falmouth, Cornwall, in the very south western tip of the UK. It’s 6 hours away…

A breakdown of a product shoot

Mar 13, 2019 Paul Monaghan

A while ago I got myself a new camera bag. I was looking for something smaller to carry around my Sigma dp cameras and I…

Photographing models and “dope profile photos” in Red Rock Canyon

Mar 13, 2019 John Aldred

WPPI is a wonderful occasion for many photographers who have the opportunity to attend. It’s a time to meet up with old friends and meet…

These are some of the last photographs of a 60+ year old wild elephant with tusks that dragged along the ground

Mar 12, 2019 John Aldred

These images are some of the last known photographs of a more-than-60-year-old elephant named simply F_MU1. Created by wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas, they document a…

Artist creates this shiny “crystal cave” from 18,000 used plastic cups to show how plastic is devastating our planet

Mar 12, 2019 Dunja Đuđić Kalinin

After “parting the sea” with 168,000 used plastic straws, Benjamin Von Wong has created another epic installation. This time, he and his team collected 18,000…