Photography

Oliver Kaltner steps down as Leica CEO after just 20 months in charge

Joining a long list of Leica CEOs with short tenures, Oliver Kaltner will leave the German camera firm later this year. Leica is in good financial health, but a replacement must be found soon

Birth of a legend – the Leica story

Leica cameras were the chief tool used to document the 20th century, one of the most tumultuous periods in human history. Photography as we know it today would simply not exist without Oskar Barnack’s humble invention

Film photography makes a stunning comeback

Sales of photographic film have been steadily rising over the last few years, with professionals and amateurs alike rediscovering the artistic control offered by manual processes and the creative satisfaction of a physical end product

The modern family of man

Curator Edward Steichen’s groundbreaking 1955 exhibition The Family of Man has reopened in his native Luxembourg. It remains essential viewing, says Jo Caird

In the picture

“What’s interesting about photography”, says Icelandic artist Einar Falur Ingolfsson, “is that it is something that everybody owns and every- body does”. Where painting, sculpture and performance art are the domain of the professional artist and therefore remote, alien and with a reputation for being difficult to understand, photography is familiar and everyday, an art […]

Awards Supplement 2024

The European CEO awards 2024 have now been announced, presenting our pick of the CEOs, companies and campaigns leading their sectors.