“Lovers Lane” by John Topham, 1938 Europeana Collections has made available a free online gallery with an archive of more than 2 million photos. Photography enthusiasts, students and academics are invited to explore over 2 million historical images from more than 50 institutions across 34 countries, including photographs by pioneers like Julia Margaret Cameron, Eadweard Muybridge and Louis Daguerre. The collection presents images from the first 100 years of photography, sourced from photographic archives, agencies and museum collections across Europe. The project is led by the Photoconsortium ..read more

What is Creative Photography? Creative Photography is about discovering new shapes, colors, dynamic range, distortions and maybe even a combination of all of them. Creative photography can stimulate you to create impressive imagery. It will help take you to the next level. It is important to remember that even the most expensive kit in the world won’t get you very far if your photography lacks creativity and flair. The only limit to this kind of photography is your imagination! Explore and understand the principles and push all the boundaries. Only then you can break all the rules. Creative P ..read more

Text Source: HariMag (translated from Italian) Images by Antonio Leanza Madeinmedi hosts the founder of the London School of Photography Madeinmedi this year opened its doors to the world of photography. Students from the Department of Photography will be present at the event with some of their work inside the exhibition. Young, future talented photographers will be able to gain new stimuli from Antonio Leanza, founder of the London School of Photography, who will be present at the show. Antonio, born Sicilian, brings with him forty years of artistic and profound photographic ac ..read more

One of the questions I receive more often when I answer e-mails for LSP is “What camera should I buy to attend your courses?”. It is never an easy answer to give because it envolves several particularities and what is right for one might not be right for the other. I will write about digital cameras only, but if you want to buy analogue, it should not be too different with few less things to worry about. The first thing you need to define is your budget. Done that it is simpler to look at the options and choose the best one. That is the total budget and should include all essential accessorie ..read more

Camila Cavalcante is a visual artist and one of LSP keen trainers. She has been chosen to show her new project, Scar, for the first time in the UK at the Hidden Door Festival, in Edinburgh. The festival is a not for profit arts organization that opens urban spaces as a platform for new and emerging artists, musicians, theatre makers, film makers and poets. The festival has a public of over 10.000 and Camila is the only artist working with Photography. Scar is an exhibition that aims to imagine the city and the landscape as a living organism, displaying the marks of its development and bringing ..read more

“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport -Steve McCurry. “ If travel photography is your passion, and you love the idea of getting your work judged by a panel of professional editors, as well as being exhibited and published then this competition is the one for you.    Multi-platform travel media brand AFAR has teamed up with LensCulture and United Airlines to bring you the first ever AFAR Travel Photography Awards, giving photographers a chance to get their hands-on cash prizes and world-wid ..read more

Happy New Year! ?? We hope you had a great start into 2019 and have beautiful memories from last year! We are proud to announce the winners of “Civilization: The Way We Live Now” Competition to celebrate the publication of the homonymous book by William A. Ewing and Holly Roussell in partnership with Thames & Hudson publishers. Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all who entered the competition, from many different countries around the world. Check out the winning images and prizes below: – 1st Prize: Mona Singh – India A Weekend or Evening Photography Workshop at L ..read more

© Olivier Christinat – Olivier Christinat, Figurations II, 2016 We are pleased to announce the Civilization: The Way We Live Now Photography Competition in partnership with Thames & Hudson publishers. To celebrate the highly anticipated publication of Civilization: The Way We Live Now, by William A. Ewing and Holly Roussell, the Flowers Gallery are launching their own exhibition in honour of the book. The exhibition Civilization will run from 7 November to 22 December 2018, and you can visit it to get inspired before sending us your best photos. We would love to see how yo ..read more

LSP is very excited to team with Urban Photo Race Wex Photo Video for London’s first Urban Photo Race this September.   The photo marathon, that has been running for several years in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Berlin, is said to be the ultimate challenge for ubran photographers “who just want someone to set the rules for them.”   According to UPR the event will challenge the best street snappers to produce 18 images over 12 hours as they interpret sometimes cryptic, and other times simple set themes as they pa ..read more

The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don’t have to explain things with words.” – Elliott Erwitt In Nicholas Dyer’s photo, at first you see a couple of African wild dogs playing, and you think, “meh, so what,” and then it hits you hard on the head like a sledgehammer and you do a double take like in a cartoon. Your jaw drops and you hear yourself saying, “whaaaaaaaat!?” That’s because the two playful dogs are running around playing tag with the severed head of a baboon. As a rule, I want images to hit me like that all the time. It’s that wow factor, that moment that jumps out of a ..read more