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Photography
The Greats: How Slim Aarons Captured the Inner Circle of High Society
Slim Aarons documented celebrity culture like no one else. Discover how he helped define the way modern photographers capture people in their environment.
Photography
Mark Mahaney’s ‘Polar Night’ Shows a Town Being Swallowed By Snow Storms
Utqiagvik, the northernmost town of Alaska, is known as ground zero for climate change.
Photography
How to Make a Camera Obscura at Home
Artist Aaron Chapman shows you the joy in making a camera obscura from the comfort of your bedroom.
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.
Photography
A Photo Print Sale Donating to the Black Lives Matter Movement
The sale has already raised over £100,000 in its first 5 days for bail funds and social justice charities.
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
The Value of Indigenous Wisdom in Protecting the Environment
With eighty percent of the world’s remaining biodiversity on the territories of indigenous people, these communities are more than a source of wisdom, but a source of hope.
Conservation
Is Reforestation the Solution to Climate Change?
Can large scale reforestation keep up with our current rate of carbon emissions?
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.
Interviews
Abstracting the Human Form with Mona Kuhn
When photographer Mona Kuhn found a reflective glass house in the middle of the Joshua Tree National Forest she immediately knew she had to come back, but next time she’d have her camera.
Conservation
Dirtbag Ingenuity
Photographer Steve Pearce and tree canopy scientist Dr Jen Sanger travel the world to document enormous trees in the name of conservation.
Inspiration
I Surf Because… A Collection of Thoughts and Surf Portraits.
I SURF BECAUSE… A collection of surf portraits from Tom Wolff taken on his travels around the world.
Inspiration
Urth’s Favourite Photobooks From 2018
Urth writer Eleanor Scott compiles a varied collection of our favourite photobooks from 2018, while also predicting a couple that we’ll love in 2019.
Inspiration
Meant For Each Other: The Enduring Nature of Photobooks
"The wall is for paintings, photographs belong in books." Magnum Co-founder and gun with a camera, Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Gear
Quadrascopic Cameras: The Failed Third Wave of Photography
A strange tale about a strange camera that came out with a bang and fizzled just as quickly. Hudson Brown tells the curious tale of quadrascopic cameras.
Travel
The Beauty of The Bicycle
Jump in the surfboard trailer and ride along the American coastline with Tom Wolff.
Conservation
Beautiful Rubbish: Artists Using Photography to Highlight Our Waste Problem
These creative artists are highlighting vital conservation issues through photography.
Conservation
Minimise Your Travel Footprint
Keeping your environmental travel footprint on an even keel when travel is high on your agenda.
Photography
Robin Hinsch Photographs One of the Most Polluted Regions in the World
Travelling across the Niger Delta, Robin Hinsch captures the human and environmental cost of the global demand for fossil fuels.
Photography
Tanya Houghton Traces Past and Present Relationships to Land
Photographer Tanya Houghton travelled over 10,500 km across Australia to understand the essence of the Aboriginal peoples’ connection to the landscape.