Julia Konovalova (AKA: Imagelicious) has just released her new book! The Ultimate Guide to Food Styling dives deep into techniques for how to make your food shots stand out and swoon-worthy by mastering the art of styling. The book is divided into 3 parts; Food Syling Pillars: Main Concepts & Techniques How-Tos & Know-Hows and Food Styling Lessons Lucky photoED readers get a preview and a few quick tips to level up your food photography, here! Styling Process Shots Process shots are most often associated with cookbooks or food blogs. This is where we go to see step-by-step instructi ..read more

Discarded items of convenience document the poisoning of our environment and ultimately ourselves. With the precision of a gentle archaeologist, Ottawa-based artist John Healey quietly began a collection of plastic objects found along the rocky shores of the St Lawrence Seaway. He took his findings home, photographed them, and examined everything, trying to understand the mystery of each object; what it is, who threw it away, and why it was there in the first place. But these questions can be nearly impossible to answer. So why are Healey’s images so captivating, and feel like they are more th ..read more

We spoke to Toronto-based photographer Anthony Gebrehiwot (a.k.a. Tony Tones) about his work. An interview with photoED Magazine photoED: What is it about creating stories through photography that you love most? Anthony: Telling stories through photography is an opportunity to share a part of yourself with the world. I see this form of storytelling as a tool for healing, not only for the creator but for the audience as well. Photographs are also a way of capturing moments that can be passed onto the generations that come after you. photoED: Whose work has influenced yours? Anthony: I’m most in ..read more

"I have been privileged to bear witness to many remote wondrous places on earth. Through the art of photography, I strive to capture and share these experiences to raise awareness about the interconnectedness of our world and the commonalities of our humanity. I use my lens to bring forth the inspirational possibilities of a landscape, and the landscape of possibilities in the faces and places of others. In Black and White brings together many of my experiences from faraway places. These moments challenged my realities, moved my heart and informed the footsteps I now take." Join us in celebr ..read more

Canadian photography educators Andrew Craig in Brampton, ON and Karen Stentaford in Sackville, NB have taken wild "new" approaches towards engaging their photography students in a mindful, meaningful way with impactful results. In a Western post-covid society most of what we learn and teach now comes through a screen. The volume of information and images we flick past is immeasurable. However, research clearly (and obviously) speaks to issues around information absorption from screens. Attention spans, mental health, cognitive overload, and in many more ways our brains are impacted by "life" o ..read more

From art history to zoom lenses, we spoke to photographer Adam Borman about his work... An interview with photoED Magazine photoED: What is it about creating stories through photography that you love most? Adam: I think photography offers the unique opportunity to create something authentic, documentary, curated, and manufactured, simultaneously. The possibilities in capturing a scene that's in front of you but then, through various techniques, being able to manipulate what was in front of the lens into a different story, are endless. That is really exciting for me. photoED: Whose work has inf ..read more

Nous avons eu un entretien avec le photographe Adam Borman afin de discuter de sa pratique artistique, passant de l’histoire de l’Art aux objectifs zoom. Une entrevue avec photoED Magazine. photoED: À travers la photographie vous créer des histoire, qu’est-ce qui vous plaît le plus dans cette pratique? Adam: Je crois que la photographie nous offre l’opportunité de créer simultanément quelque chose d’authentique, documentaire, organisé et manufacturé. Saisir une scène qui est devant nous et ensuite la manipuler à travers diverses techniques offre des possibilités infinies, celles-ci nous permet ..read more

NatGeo Live! at Roy Thomson Hall • Tuesday March 28 photoED magazine PATRONS attend for FREE! Maureen Beck loves to prove people wrong. Born with one hand, she tried rock climbing for the first time after a camp counsellor told her she could skip it. Her love of the sport was instantaneous, but there was no guide for climbing with one hand. Unfazed, she decided to figure it out for herself through trial and error—one of her early adaptive climbing innovations even involved taping a metal ladle to her arm. Before long she was leading a crew of passionate adaptive climbers around the world, forg ..read more

Entrez pour avoir! The Tamron 28-75mm F/2.8 Di III VXD G2 delivers outstanding resolution and superb performance in a lightweight, compact zoom lens. Along with the soft, beautiful bokeh effects that are distinctive to this fast-aperture lenses, this beauty is equipped with the new Tamron Lens Utility™, a groundbreaking feature that lets you easily perform customization and firmware updates. This lens uses Tamron’s VXD autofocus motor for high speed, high precision AF. And its closeup capabilities are remarkable with its 7.1” MOD at the 28mm wide end, and a maximum magnification ratio of 1:2.7 ..read more

The Image Centre showcases Mary Ellen Mark's unflinching and compassionate photographs of women living in a psychiatric facility Ward 81—an early series by one of America’s most distinguished and respected photographers—sheds light on the invisible lives of women institutionalized for mental illness. American documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark (1940–2015) transported her viewers to places rarely seen, from the brothels and circuses of India to the streets of Seattle. Her humanistic approach and long-term commitment to her subjects were legendary. This winter, visitors to The Image Centr ..read more