Phase One Stories

Freezing motion and emotion: the photography of Rafa Sanchez

Rafa Sanchez is a photographer, illustrator and motion graphics designer from Madrid. He makes pictorial portrait photography that plays with light, color, textures and body language, capturing fleeting moments that ...

November 29, 2019 / Journalism & Documentary, Portrait

Todd Antony photographs Cholitas on top of the world

Earlier this year, photographer Todd Antony headed to El Alto in Bolivia to shoot a personal, two-part project featuring a unique community of indigenous Aymara women who are breaking stereotypes ...

November 26, 2019 / Fashion & Beauty

Bolivian Salt Flats and Australian beauty: a set made in heaven

Bolivia’s Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat, left behind by lakes that evaporated millions of years ago. Today, it’s one of the most breathtaking sights on Earth ...

November 12, 2019 / Landscape & Wildlife, Seek extraordinary

Extraordinary experiences: Photography as a practice of self-growth

Hong Zuo is a Chinese-American landscape photographer living between Boston and Beijing. After a chance encounter with photography on a hiking trip, Hong fell in love with what is now ...

October 29, 2019 / Fine Art, Portrait

Body language and rich texture blend in Dayron Vera’s dramatic portraits

Dayron Vera is a Cuban fine art photographer based in Barcelona. He is also a professional ballet dancer, having worked as Principal Dancer in the National Ballet of Cuba and ...

October 9, 2019 / Architecture & Interior

Brooke Holm documents the interaction between humans and environment

Brooke Holm is a New York-based photographer whose work cuts across genres and styles. Her photography centers on the relationship between humans and the natural environment, a vision she employes ...

September 20, 2019 / Landscape & Wildlife, Seek extraordinary

Extraordinary encounters: The camera is a passport

Marc Koegel is a Vancouver-based landscape photographer. He first came to Canada from Germany to study Economics, but once he graduated, Marc decided he wanted to be a photographer instead ...

September 12, 2019 / Landscape & Wildlife, Seek extraordinary

Extraordinary stories: Every photo is a journey

Steven Friedman is a fine art landscape photographer from Salt Spring Island, B.C., Canada. He almost literally stumbled upon photography three decades ago, when he discovered a lost camera on ...

September 9, 2019 / Landscape & Wildlife, Seek extraordinary

Extraordinary moments: How photography saved my life

Stefano Gardel is an award-winning fine art photographer based in Lugano, Switzerland. His aesthetic is built on gloomy atmospheres and almost surreal cityscapes that give an out-of-world dimension to ordinary ...

September 5, 2019 / Landscape & Wildlife

Casting a new light on landscape photography

This month we launched a brand new camera system, one designed for photographers whose passion take them far and wide, to distant and spectacular places. The Phase One XT was ...