BIZARRE: 18 - What They Never Told You

His neighbors “thought him mad to spend so many hours staring into a coffin.” James Clerk Maxwell wasn’t a photographer, but he created the world’s oldest color photo with an idea still used today

Physicist James Clerk Maxwell wasn't a photographer, but he was obsessed with the science of color

Digital Camera World · Jul 27

This vintage Red Bull airplane hasn’t flown over the US since the 1950s – so an artist captured the flight with an equally vintage camera from a WWII bomber

When the Flying Bulls brought a 1958 airplane back to the US for the first time since it was built, the plane was photographed in midair using an equally retro camera

Digital Camera World · Jul 27

James Ravilious and Chris Chapman spent 50 years photographing farms, weddings and village halls in the same corner of rural England – yet neither ever saw the other as competition

Their work highlights how great documentary photography comes from patience, trust and staying in one place

Digital Camera World · Jul 26

A hyena, a fur seal and an elephant in the city: Leica photographer Alan Schaller finds humor, tension and black-and-white beauty in the animals that live among us

The London photographer's second monograph is the first title from his new imprint, Irys Publishing

Digital Camera World · Jul 26

Shutter+ packs in advanced tools that most native camera apps don’t offer – and now one app works across Sony, Canon and Fujifilm

Shutter+ has added a waveform monitor to its list of advanced features compatible with Sony, Canon, and Fujifilm cameras

Digital Camera World · Jul 26

This gorgeous photo of a polar bear bounding across the ice offers a masterclass in deciding whether to shoot in color or black-and-white

Sue Flood and Ian Dawson's new exhibition, Midnight Sun, follows a logic that every photographer should study

Digital Camera World · Jul 25

Long before Bill Brandt, this 1920s postcard salesman worked out how to photograph London after dark without a tripod. A reissued photobook reveals just how he did it

Back in 1924, Fred Judge ditched the tripod, built his own camera and leaned on lamp posts to solve a problem that photographers still wrestle with today

Digital Camera World · Jul 25

I've been photographing total solar eclipses for over 40 years – and this is what it was like chasing totality with a film camera back before the internet

In the first of a three-part series, David S Young recalls what it was like to photograph a total solar eclipse with film cameras and without the aid of the internet

Digital Camera World · Jul 25

How do you define photography in a single sentence? No-one can agree –so this new book charts 200 years of it instead

An impressive new volume from Thames & Hudson features 320 pages of the landmark images that built the medium

Digital Camera World · Jul 25

Photo curation app founder claims “emotional AI” will bring an end to camera-roll “memory debt”

Yoree founder Charlotte Riddley says the app’s neuroscience-backed “emotional AI” selects only the most “meaningful” images from device galleries, doing away with camera-roll fatigue once and for all

Digital Camera World · Jul 25