These images are the AF Team's curation of the most stand out must-see images produced in 2021. From career photographers to amateur hobbyists, these scenes and portraits made a huge impact this year!

If you are looking to get lost in travels and mysteries, are a fan of stunning black and white photography, and want it all wrapped up in a neatly designed package, you could not go wrong with Petra Barth's gorgeous Anderswo/Elsewhere, from the consistently outstanding Schilt Publishing. Read our review now!

Platinotype: Making Photographs in Platinum and Palladium with the Contemporary Printing-out Process describes the mechanisms and chemistry of platinum/palladium printing in safe and practical ways.

Inspired by 1960s B movies and counterculture, the works of Ellen Rogers, and the surreal landscape of the seaside Welsh town where she lives and works, Clare Marie Bailey’s Polaroid self-portraits blur the lines between fantasy and reality.

Camille Valbusa’s self-portraits are critical identity studies that research artistic practices of healing from trauma. Read our latest interview where she dives into the motivations of her photography, talks about a current book project, and how shooting film plays into her art-making practice.

From Discrimination to Drag-queens, Erotica to Equality - LGBTQIA+ people have utilized the photographic arts to showcase and celebrate identities and social progress for decades. See our list of 25 photographers you need to know right now!

Polaroid Week is a bi-annual celebration of instant film that allows lovers of the medium to share their newly created instant works across the internet! See our top selections from this season now!

Nika De Carlo dives deep into the emotional trenches of her and her partner’s war on addiction, recovery, trauma, and healing. Her intimate and brutally honest documentary project and visual diary is entitled “See You In Heaven.”

The Mamiya 7 camera is a cult icon in the medium format photography world. If you weren’t convinced this camera was your grail camera, you will be after seeing what these 20 medium format film photographs!

Travel around the world through the eyes of 15 established and emerging documentary photographers and discover the insightful, moving, and beautiful intricacies and varieties of human experience they create with the medium of film photography.

Analog Forever Magazine Edition 5 includes Jessica Auer, Elizabeth Opalenik, Vanessa Marsh, Gökhan Tanrıöver, Adam Chin, Beau Patrick Coulon, Christian Klant, Megan Bent, Steven Williams, and Wes Bell.

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.

Suzanne Révy's latest series, "A Murmur in the Trees," imparts a sense of solitude that has been both endured and embraced through each season of this past year during the pandemic. These triptychs lure you in with their subtle details and shifting light.

Maine-based photographer, storyteller, and adventure thru-hiker Nicholas Reichard's latest book, Stories, is an intimate story of personal struggle and life-changing experiences the artist experienced thru-hiking 6,500 miles with a Hasselblad film camera from 2015-2018. This is his story.

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.

Brenton Hamilton's newest book, A Blue Idyll - Cyanotypes and Dreams, transports you to a dreamlike state to explore his surrealist world of unusual connections and possibilities influenced by chance motifs and interactions from art history.