Today I want you to have a closer look at Han Youngsoo’s remarkable photographs of Seoul as it rebuilt itself after the Korean War. Full of movement, elegance, hardship, and everyday life. A vivid and deeply human record of a city becoming modern.

You will find much of his work on the website of the Han YoungSoo Foundation.

Until next time,
Tomasz

My big discovery yesterday: Robert Bergman’s powerful portraiture. His colour portraits of people he met on the streets across America are so intimate, direct, and full of presence. Each face seems to carry its own story, and together the photographs create a remarkable portrait of humanity.

Thank you, Adam Isler, for recommending his work.

Until next time,
Tomasz

Sal Taylor Kydd’s poetic photographs of family, nature, objects, and the places around her explore memory, belonging, loss, and the passing of time in a very quiet and intimate way.

Thank you, David Banes, for recommending her work.

Until next time,
Tomasz

Diana Markosian’s photographs sit somewhere between documentary and personal storytelling. She often works with soft, cinematic light and carefully spaced compositions. Looking through her projects feels a little like opening a family album where some pages have been rewritten from memory.

I hope you will enjoy her work.

Until next time,
Tomasz

I discovered Mimi Plumb’s photography yesterday.

She finds extraordinary rhythm in ordinary life. Her black-and-white images often rely on natural light and beautifully timed gestures.

I like how her compositions leave space for small discoveries - you notice one thing immediately, then another a few seconds later, like a conversation that reveals its best part on the way home.

Until next time,
Tomasz

Myr Muratet has an understated documentary eye. His use of available light and balanced framing gives ordinary streets and neighborhoods a quiet dignity.

The photographs feel unhurried, as though the city has briefly paused to let you notice details that usually disappear into the background.

Until next time,
Tomasz

Have a look at Leigh Preston’s striking photographs of people, communities, streets, and landscapes. His images reveal the character of everyday life and the atmosphere of places shaped by work, history, and change.

Thank you, Robert Johnston, for recommending his work.

Until next time,
Tomasz

Pete Carr’s photography moves effortlessly between architecture, portraiture, cultural events, and deeply personal projects. His work is visually energetic, but it also reveals the character and identity of the places and people he portrays.

Thank you, Graham Smillie, for recommending his work.

Until next time,
Tomasz

A longtime TIME magazine photographer and special correspondent, PF Bentley spent two decades documenting American politics and gaining rare access to those in power.

His later black-and-white photographs of Molokai reveal a quieter but equally observant eye, capturing the people, landscape, and distinctive rhythm of island life.

Thank you, Melony A. Price-Rhodes, for recommending his work.

Until next time,
Tomasz

Arne Wesenberg’s quietly direct portraits place older people among the spaces, tools, and objects that continue to shape their working lives.

Made with an analogue large-format camera, the photographs balance individuality and dignity with a thoughtful reflection on purpose, ageing, and life beyond retirement.

Thank you, Manfred Roth, for recommending his work.

Until next time,
Tomasz

A few hours later than originally planned, but here I am with another edition of PHOTOSNACK.

After a short break, let’s start with Andy Clark, whose photography combines the sharp instincts of an experienced photojournalist with genuine affection for the people and places in front of his camera.

Whether he is covering major events or quietly observing everyday life, his photographs feel immediate, honest, and wonderfully human.

Thank you, Todd Korol, for recommending his work.

Until next time,
Tomasz

PHOTOSNACK has been arriving in your inbox day after day with photographers, images, ideas, and small moments of visual inspiration — and now I will step away for a short summer break to rest, slow down, look around, and gather some fresh energy for what comes next.

I think this is important. Not only for newsletters, magazines, and creative projects, but also for photography itself. Sometimes we need to stop producing for a moment so we can begin seeing again.

PHOTOSNACK will return on July 20.

Until then, I hope you will also find a little time to pause, breathe, take a walk with or without a camera, look at light, notice small things, and maybe even enjoy a few days without needing to turn everything into work.

Thank you, as always, for being here.

Until next time,
Tomasz

Wild animals photographed with a strong sense of light, timing, and respect for the moment — a legacy made even more moving after Charles “Chas” Glatzer’s recent tragic death following a car accident in South Carolina.

His images remind us that great wildlife photography comes from patience, knowledge, and the rare ability to turn a brief encounter with nature into something unforgettable.

Thank you, Steven Forman, for recommending his work.

Until next time,
Tomasz

These photographs feel as if they were made slowly, with respect for faces, hands, landscapes, and the traces that time leaves behind.

Working with analogue cameras, darkroom printing, and old photographic papers, Martin Waldbauer creates black-and-white images in which rural life is shown not as nostalgia, but as something dignified, physical, and deeply human.

Thank you, Manfred Roth, for recommending his work.

Until next time,
Tomasz

Beth Lilly’s photography explores memory, identity, chance, and the way our lives are shaped by the choices we make.

Her images are quiet and thoughtful, often making you look twice and wonder what is real, what is remembered, and what is imagined.

Thank you, David Hedges, for recommending her work.

Until next time,
Tomasz

You look at Wayne Simpson’s photographs, and you feel that every face, every landscape, every quiet detail has been lit and composed to carry a story. His work invites you to slow down, not just to admire the drama and beauty of the image, but to wonder about the life, memory, and emotion hidden inside it.

Thank you, Lee Nordbye, for recommending his work.

Until next time,
Tomasz

Nature in Anna Lilleengen’s photographs is not simply something to look at; it seems to breathe, blur, remember, and disappear.

Working with analogue processes and a delicate sense of light, she creates images that feel less like landscapes and more like fragments of feeling — quiet, fragile, and suspended somewhere between the real world and a dream.

Thank you, Andrew Backhouse, for recommending her work.

Until next time,
Tomasz

Ordinary streets, shops, houses, factories, and people become quietly strange in Peter Mitchell’s images, because he photographs them with such care and attention.

His images look simple at first, but the longer you stay with them, the more they become records of memory, change, and the character of a place slowly disappearing.

Thank you, Steve Dean, for recommending his work.

Until next time,
Tomasz

There is something very clear and powerful in Robert Mapplethorpe’s photography: whether he photographed flowers, portraits, or the human body, he made everything look carefully shaped, balanced, and intense.

His images are often beautiful, but they can also feel challenging, because they look directly at things many people prefer not to look at.

Thank you, Marta Duńska, for reminding us of his work.

Until next time,
Tomasz

Mark Fearnley’s photographs treat the city less as a place to pass through and more as a carefully built stage, where deep black-and-white tones, reflections, hard light, and architectural geometry turn ordinary streets into scenes of quiet tension.

Thank you, Paul Batchelor, for recommending his work.

Until next time,
Tomasz