The technically strongest portrait in a competition frequently loses to an image where something in the subject's eyes made the photographer forget to check the histogram. Here is why — and what it…
Judges decide in three seconds. Here is what they are actually responding to — and why most photographers are optimizing for the wrong things.
Consistent competition placers are not entering opportunistically. They work from a structured calendar built months in advance. Here is how to build one.
Many photo contests acquire broad commercial rights to submitted images through fine print most entrants never read. Here is what to look for and what it actually means.
Street photography is one of the most entered and most misunderstood competition categories. Here is what judges reward, what they punish, and why many technically strong entries keep failing.
Technically flawless entries keep failing at the judging stage. The problem is not craft — it is the absence of something judges cannot find a name for except to call it original.
The Bauhaus had an ambivalent relationship with the poster. Founded by Walter Gropius in Dessau in 1919 with the intention of reconciling fine art and craft production, the school’s core pedagogical…
The vintage travel poster market is old enough to have developed its own pathologies. What began as nostalgic accumulation in the 1970s — former railway employees, tourism board retirees, people who…
The framing industry has a structural incentive to complicate the process of protecting flat paper. Consultations, custom cuts, specialty glass, archival mat boards with competing certifications — by…
The theatrical one-sheet is 27 by 40 inches. That dimension has been standard since the early twentieth century, sized to fit the display cases outside cinema lobbies. It is one of the most…