Phase One Stories

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 ...

August 26, 2019 / Events & Weddings

Medium format and wedding photography: a love story

Capture One ambassadors Victor and Ronja, known as Muse & Mirror, shoot wedding photography like no other. They specialize in after-wedding portraits, a growing trend in the wedding photography genre ...

August 14, 2019 / Food

A taste of Sven Benjamins’ delicious food photography

I’m Sven Benjamins, and I’ve been working as a professional photographer for the last 23 years. I shoot mainly food, interior, still life, and lifestyle photography. I love to make ...

July 3, 2019 / Fine Art, Portrait

Defining beauty in photography

For the relaunch of IQ4 Camera Systems, we collaborated with photographer Gemmy Woud-Binnendijk on a personal project she had been thinking of for almost two years. This is the story ...