Walking 550 Miles Through Italy, Portugal, and Spain  By Todd Bigelow, Contact Press Images  When people ask me what to see and do when traveling in Europe I tell them “nothing,” and I’m completely serious. Ditching the travel agenda, taking to the streets, and becoming a wanderer is the key to travel. I’ve walked over 550 miles the last few years in small Italian towns tucked against the Alps to the backstreets of southern Spain and the mountains of Portugal and believe that a street photography approach to travel will yield far more insight and experiences than an overbooked itinerary. Let’s...

Because we all gotta start somewhere — our friends at The School of Photography are offering a stellar Beginners Photography Course! With 58 videos, 12 quizzes (we can do hard things!), and 16 worksheets, this course will get you out of Automatic and shooting in Manual like a boss in no time. Here's a snapshot of the topics the course covers: The team The School of Photography have been teaching photography since 2002 and all of that experience goes into bringing you the art and science of photography so that you don’t just understand it for 5 minutes - you'll...

The Moment it Clicks — 20 years with NYC Salt by NYC Salt Executive Director, Alicia Hansen In the winter of 2009, I presented my Master’s thesis about Salt. Not the mineral—but a digital photography program created 6 years prior. In a small conference room at Syracuse University after spending the morning photographing the campus, my students piled their heavy winter coats, camera equipment, and backpacks on the garish carpeting and accompanied me in the front of the room. I had officially graduated with an MFA in photography from Syracuse in 2003, and upon my return, found I was still...

Over the past few years, I've made it a habit to pick a word that sums up what I want to focus on creatively for the year ahead. In 2022, it was Adventure. Then came Authenticity in the following year. And now, for this year, I've landed on Journey. Last year, I hit a wall creatively. I lost my mojo and ended up putting my personal projects on hold, just to get through the paid gigs. But I knew one thing: the longer I stayed stuck, the stronger I'd bounce back. So, I tried to find inspiration anywhere I could –...