A photographer's newsletter sharing landscape and portrait work, with brief notes on each set of images. Readers get a visual look at recent projects rather than written analysis or reporting.
Website: https://www.juanjoivaldi.com/
A photography teacher writes personal, literary essays on photography, including a two-part response to Karl Ove Knausgaard's novel The School of Night and notes on his forthcoming lexicon of photography terms. Readers get reflective writing that links photography education, books and the history of words.
Each issue pairs a historic postcard with a present-day recreation photo to explore a building, monument or artwork and the history behind it. It covers modernist architecture, public monuments and urban history with detailed context on architects, patrons and artists.
A personal blog-style newsletter mixing first-person travel writing and photography from rural Vietnam with detailed investigations of Chinese porcelain bought at auction and from collectors. Readers get close observation and worked examples of how to test an attribution using marks, measurements, magnification and UV light.
A Chinese-language blog that documents hands-on technical projects, such as reverse-engineering a 2013 Sony NEX-5T's firmware to get a clean HDMI output for live streaming. Its other posts describe building and shipping an app with AI assistance, mixing personal narrative with practical detail.
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