FRAMES Digital | April 2026 is here.
This new issue moves through presence, memory, documentary, fragility, personal language, and the quiet power of looking. Inside, Dean Golja opens the issue with "Image as Spirit", a thoughtful meditation on photography, presence, and the kind of slowness certain images ask of us. Anthony Smith (
@taffysmith ) brings us "The End of Kolkata's Yellow Kings", a moving documentary story about the city's disappearing yellow Ambassador taxis and the lives bound to them. Gina Williams (
@gina_williams_writes ), in "Crystal Ball", looks at the Sony Student Photography Awards shortlist and sees something hopeful in the next generation of image-makers: work that feels ethical, personal, and deeply human.
Paul Thompson (
@paulthompsixtyseven ), in "Resist. Survive. Repeat", turns damaged roadside barriers into a strangely powerful study of fragility, repetition, and the physical traces of human error. In "The Moment Black and White Becomes Personal Language", editor of FRAMES, Tomasz Trzebiatowski (
@tomasz.trzebiatowski ) reflects on the point where black and white stops being style and becomes instinct — a true visual language shaped by tension, light, silence, and emotional clarity.
The issue also includes "Books Briefly Noted" by W. Scott Olsen (
@w.scottolsen ), a rich set of short reviews for photography and visual culture lovers, and a conversation by Alasdair Foster (
@alasdair.foster ), "Joseph Häxan: The Seeker and the Abyss", bringing us into the dark, imaginative world of Joseph Häxan (
@josephhaxan ). W. Scott Olsen also returns with "Reading Frames", a close reading of Giulio D'Ercole's (
@giuliodercole ) "Shining's Mood on Misurina Lake", while Marty Gervais (
@martygervaiswriterphotographer ) closes the issue with a beautiful reflection on windows, light, memory, and the act of seeing.
This is an issue about attention — about photographs that do not rush, but stay with you.
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