Nikon photographers are getting something that they arguably should’ve received a while ago: access to the Tamron 28-75mm f2.8 II lens. The company announced today that Nikon users will soon be able to purchase the lens for their system at $999. This is great news in so many different ways; and we’re positive that it’s going to cause confusion. If you’re of the belief that Nikon had this lens previously, then you’re wrong.
For several years, we’ve featured images on climate change and so many other environmental issues. Few have really taken to the conceptual world of photography to do it, but Adedolapo Boluwatife has made a series called Invitation to Invade that has rightfully earned awards with how well it illustrates the problem. Besides photographer Christine Ren, he’s the only one who has made we’ve really wanted to hang on our walls around the issue of climate change, waste, etc. Adedolapo is an introvert — and so he made the project from simple observations around him.
For the past several years, I’ve been really loving the Tamron 17-28mm f2.8 lens. It’s lightweight, weather resistant, durable, fast to focus, and has great image quality. It’s truly hard to beat it because of how useful it is when you’re traveling. It goes from a wide-angle to a semi-wide field of view. If you’re a fan of the 28mm field of view instead of 35mm, then this lens will be perfect for you. Oh, it’s also very affordable. The Tamron March Mega Sale is running until April 7th, 2024. Here are all the deals you care about.
It’s easy to become inspired by modern photographers and all the great work that they do. We profile many of them here in our interviews. But at the same time, some of the earliest photographers have a purity about them that removes all of the ambiguities around modern photography today. One of those photographers is Diane Arbus. For her time, she was very pioneering photographer who worked to tell very important stories. Her images often were a slap in the face to conventional standards of what was considered normal. But most of all, she didn’t give into the idea of documentary-porn or the idea of making the image all about herself. Instead, her images were all about the people in front of her camera.
Yes, it’s real! The dream is alive, and it feels like a single lens that a photographer can have on them. Very few things are as great as having just a single lens on you when you’re traveling to shoot photos. The new Nikon Z 28-400mm f4-8 is exactly that. No other company has made something like this. The closest other brands have gotten while making a good lens is the Tamron 28-200mm offering — which starts at f2.8. Combined with the DX-cropping ability on Nikon cameras, their build quality, and the autofocus, Nikon is probably making the best lens for travel photographers.
Average photographers copy one another, but good photographers take work that came before them and push it a step forward. Here at the Phoblographer, we’ve renewed our pledge to photographers and strive to showcase work that can’t be easily created or replciated by AI imaging. The photographers we feature also make images that truly do hit soul deep. So to celebrate this, we’re featuring a few incredible women. These folks make photographs that you’ll feel deep down.
“This series was meant to be a visual representation of being ‘suffocated’ or overwhelmed by your thoughts; it’s a continuation of a self-portrait concept I shot back in 2019,” says photographer Najiyyah Floyd to the Phoblographer in an interview. “The idea came from my own experience of feeling overwhelmed by my constant overthinking. I was sitting in my apartment one day consumed by my thoughts, unable to make a move without overanalyzing the next.” She then decided to channel this energy into creativity. So Najiyyah gathered some yarn and got to work.
“Every day, I wake up with a smile on my face, excited about photography,” says photographer Tyler Shields to the Phoblogrpaher in an interview. “It gives me a life that not many other art forms can. Making a movie is a long process with many people involved, but with photography, it can be minimal and intimate, which gives it a magical quality.” Part of this joy comes from the fact that he’s working on a brand new book too.
“Their life can be destroyed every week for sure but they stay here because the earth is geared for their culture and this is simply they home,” says Philippe Echaroux about the people he photographed near the Bromo volcano. “I don’t go there to try to gain their trust, I am just a human going to meet other human and together we will create maybe Art, or just share point of view and experiences. I see this in a simple and deeply human way and it always worked.” This method is far unlike what so many other documentary photographers do.
The old school film-look, softness, halation, and all! It’s right here! This month, the Phoblographer is giving away a beautiful 7Artisans 50mm f1.1 lens in Leica M-mount to one lucky subscriber. It’s overall in pretty great condition and brings with it the patina and aging that makes its beauty shine through. Now, we’re giving it …