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Žak Mogel spends his winters in the air. The Slovenian ski jumper was born in Celje in 2001 and competes for SSK Ljubno BTC. This season he has flown World Cup hills from Zakopane to Sapporo, Oslo and Planica, and he jumped at the Ski Flying World Championships in Oberstdorf on a hill measuring 235 metres. What he does with a camera is the opposite of all that. His nostalgic ...

Orange is the loudest color in the photographer’s palette. It carries warmth, urgency, and energy in equal measure, and it photographs with an intensity that few other colors can match. Learning to see in orange means learning to spot it before you raise the camera: the last light on a brick wall, a market stall piled with fruit, an autumn canopy catching afternoon sun. Orang...

Gonzalo Bendito lives in Madrid, but his work takes him all over the world. His portfolio features high mountain peaks, busy city streets, and scenes shot underwater. This wide range takes far more adaptability than sticking to a single style.

A silhouette is one of photography’s oldest tricks and one of its most enduring. Strip a subject of texture, color, and detail, and what remains is pure shape against light. Done well, silhouette photography forces the viewer to fill in what they can’t see, and that act of imagination is what gives silhouette images their emotional pull. The challenge isn’t technical. It’s le...

Holger Nitschke works out of Oldenburg, Germany. He splits his time between analog and digital cameras, using both to feed the same instinct: strip a portrait down to light and shadow, and something honest usually surfaces.