Getting Lost in Japan
Take a walk through the maze of tiny streets and wondrous lights of Japan with Chris Mongeau.
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Creativity
What’s Inspiring Us – Volume 5 with Urth Content Manager Meghan Walsh
Urth’s very own content manager shares everything sparking her creativity lately — from a grounding hobby to sculptures that celebrate the essence of trees.
Art
Cai Fox Leplaw’s Photography Balances Catastrophic Hallucinations Against a “Study of Emotion Through Motion”
With a free-flowing creative mindset, photographer and new Urth ambassador Cai Fox Leplaw explores the end of the world alongside his innermost feelings
Creativity
Shinrin-Yoku: How to Use Forest Bathing to Quiet Your Mind
Make the most of your time in nature with these mindfulness techniques.
Photography
Carla Step Transformed Self-Taught Talent Into a Flourishing Commercial Practice
We chat to our newest Urth ambassador Carla Step about how she found creative freedom in her commercial work.
Photography
Will Travel Photography Be A Viable Career Post-Pandemic? 4 Photographers Share Their Plans
We asked them how isolation has changed their approach to photography, and what the pandemic means for the travel industry.
Photography
The Greats: How Gordon Parks Used Photography as a Force for Change
Gordon Parks’ powerful depictions of injustice and poverty played a vital role in America’s civil rights movement.
Gear
The Ultimate Buyer’s Guide to UV Filters
Your guide to understanding which UV filter to buy, to protect your lenses and cut out haze from your images.
Photography
How Pia Riverola Finds Beautiful Moments to Photograph Every Day
Urth ambassador Pia Riverola details how her changing landscape informs the candid moments she captures.
Gear
The Packing List with Sarah Pannell
Travel and documentary photographer Sarah Pannell shares which cameras, lenses and filters make it into the overhead cabin on trips abroad.
Gear
The 5 Best Film Cameras for Beginners
From scouring op shop shelves to surfing the web, we’ve put together the best film cameras for beginners and a bunch of handy hints to help find the right film camera for you.
Photography
How to Develop New Photographic Ideas
A look at how experimenting with lens adapters, talking to friends and delving into your own personal history can all help you develop new photography ideas.
Conservation
Is Reforestation the Solution to Climate Change?
Can large scale reforestation keep up with our current rate of carbon emissions?
Interviews
Exhibition: Travelling from Alaska to Oaxaca by Bike
Tom Wolff’s photos will gently persuade even the fussiest travellers of the charms and freedoms of bike travel.
12 Frames
Twelve Frames with Lora Ward
Twelve frames taken by Lora Ward on her recent travels through Japan.
Interviews
Subverting Gendered Power Dynamics with Pixy Liao
Multidisciplinary artist Pixy Liao has spent 12 years questioning romantic heterosexual power dynamics through her playful but pointed photos.
Gear
Cameras That Feel Like Extensions of My Brain
From a Nikkormat to an Olympus point-and-shoot and back again, writer Max Olijnyk reflects on intuitive relationships with a few of the key cameras in his life so far.
Inspiration
Seven Remarkable Photographers and Exhibitions from the Rencontres d’Arles
Power plays, climate change and ominous peepholes in anonymous houses – these are our favourite works from the 50th edition of the Rencontres d’Arles.
Photography
Film and Pool: Meet Melbourne’s Newest Photo Lab
Halide Supply is a new photo lab in Melbourne that set out to welcome new-comers and nurture the growing film community by sharing and celebrating their customers’ work.
Travel
A Week in Seoul with Tom Hvala
Photographer Tom Hvala spent a week in Seoul to step back and find some space. His photographs capture moments of stillness in the Korean capital’s vibrant spaces.
Interviews
Incremental Shifts in Human Experience with Mandy Sham
Photographer and journalist Mandy Sham explores the immersive complexities of the human experience by delving into the ways in which people influence and occupy the microcosmic spaces around them.
Gear
How to Use Your Old SLR Glass on Your New Mirrorless
Investing in a new digital camera body doesn't have to spell the end for your quality analogue lenses. Lens adapters let you use professional quality lenses with your digital camera for less.
Gear
Film Washi: The Smallest Film Company in the World
Hudson Brown uncovers the story behind the smallest film company in the world. Film Washi was born in the bedroom closet of Frenchman Lomig Perrotin and has grown to offer a range of unique handmade films to the world.