Jacqueline Walters, a visionary photographer from Cambridge, England, blends her love for landscapes and language into a unique visual style. In her project "Learning Mandarin and the Language of Lumens," she uses biological materials to create captivating shapes, merging Mandarin script with imagery in a profound way.

These images are the AF Team's curation of the most stand-out must-see images produced in 2023. From career photographers to amateur hobbyists, these scenes and portraits made a huge impact this year!

Using instant-film double exposures, Germany-based photographer Laetitia Heisler takes viewers on a healing journey through the woods, camera in tow, sharing how she sees life as “a continuous transformation” in her series, Forest is a Temple. “Everyone and everything are intertwined.”

Spend time with the photographs and words from this interview with photographic artist Marcus DeSieno. His ongoing project, "Geography of Disappearance," is a brutally honest examination of the crisis at the US/Mexico border from the perspective of landscape photography.

Get ready to immerse yourself in the world of film soup photography! These 16 photographers utilize this audacious technique, soaking their negatives in unexpected solutions or altering their Polaroids during development, to create unique and unpredictable art. Explore this cutting-edge realm with our specially curated collection by Amy Elizabeth of Film Lab 135!

Enter the realm of Lenny Gerard, a visionary artist who juxtaposes day and night shots of architectural marvels in an arresting critique of capitalism. Gerard's work, as captivating as it is contemplative, challenges the viewer to consider the implications of a system that values work over life, and productivity over creativity.

System Error, a thought-provoking photo series by Italian artists Silvia Pedrina and Leonardo Brentan, a.k.a Sileō, challenges perceptions of our growing relationship with technology. Combining traditional photography with digital techniques, the series offers a fascinating exploration of the intersection between the physical and digital realms.

Maureen Mulhern-White, a British-American self-taught photographer, creates mystical landscapes that captivate audiences with their dream-like qualities. Her innovative photo series, The Continuum, features photograms printed on vellum paper and backed with silver or gold leaf. These enchanting images showcase a variety of creatures and natural elements, revealing our shared connection to the universe.

Luca Tombolini’s series Vistas artistically explores the scientific idea of Space, Time, and their relativity by asking viewers to consider the perception of their via place in the universe via the combination of long and multiple exposure landscapes and cameraless microscapes made of color drops in solvents.

Flashback to the Spring of 2020 — a time of the unknown, and David Scheinbaum’s latest work was born. A one-year cameraless exploration of the ENSŌ – a journey, traveling back to the essence of photography, light, and chemistry. Explore more with our article on this fascinating photographer and his latest works.

Clément Marion’s series “Phoenix” features wet plate collodion photographs of severe burn victims that act as both hybrid artistic therapy for his models but also a commentary on important social constructs that influence their mental and emotional healing.

Alternative process photographer, printmaker, and researcher Ed Carr has created the first-ever music video made from over 5000 hand-printed cyanotypes for Tycho Jones and Globe Town Records. Learn all about his unique creation now!

Recent recipient of CENTER’s Environmental Award, Ella Morton presents her ongoing body of work, “The Dissolving Landscape,” a series of experimental analog photographs that examine climate change in the Arctic and Subarctic landscapes of Canada and Nordic Europe.

Diane Meyer’s “Berlin” investigates the former Berlin Wall using a combination of analog, digital, and mixed media processes that deceives the viewer to see pixelated sections that enhance a connection between forgetting and file corruption.

Gracie Baer’s series “Corporeal Worth” draws parallels between our relationship with the natural world and society by contemplating the commonality between animals and people, in both life and in death.

The Harvey Milk Photo Center is one of the oldest and largest public darkrooms in the United States. Originally opened in 1940, it serves as an inclusive space for people to express themselves through photography.

Lomography film is a cult icon in the film photography world. If you weren’t convinced that Lomography is your chance to get creative, you will be after seeing what these 20 photographers have made with their films and cameras!

Kyle Lang’s new series Manifest Content is a darkroom photography project that delves into themes of time, memory, dreams, subconsciousness, and the environment we find ourselves in, both while awake and lucid dreaming.

Cody Bratt’s series “The Other Stories,” continues by using his great-grandfathers collection of negatives to explore a darker narrative of family history. The artist’s hand becomes evident as Bratt uses mixed media processes to create unique and tactile analog objects.

Fanzutti Flora’s Series “Erosion” features experimental large format negatives that embrace the idea of creative destruction by conjuring works of art that are impossible to create in-camera.