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This year’s Christmas issue is packed to the brim with insightful articles and columns. Check out exactly what you’ll find in the latest issue.

Studio portraits and documentary photography combine in Helen Mitchell’s exhibition Tattoo Aotearoa New Zealand

 Canon New Zealand has just announced, as of November 4, that they are now in an official association with Three Little Wishes and their workshops in order to work together to inspire photographers of all skill levels to achieve more with their photography

Rebecca Frogley puts the Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark II through its paces and lets you know what to expect

During Image Nation 2015, we were sitting in the audience scribbling down an abundance of notes. We’ve selected our top 10 quotes that we jotted down during the October 19–20 event for you to add to your inspiration journals.

Want to play a part in ensuring the inaugural Photobook New Zealand festival is a success? There are three days left to donate to the festival’s Boosted campaign to make sure they hit their $5000 target — they’re only $455 out and need to raise the money by November 6.

We’ve compiled an abundance of photography clubs throughout New Zealand for you to explore. Let us know if your club needs its details updated, or if you’d like to add a brand-new one to the list.

Everyone loves to shoot photographs of friends and family, but we only need so many images of you and your nan grinning and squinting straight into the flash. Luckily, there are a few simple techniques to help you make your portrait shots look timeless.

In D-Photo Issue No. 45 we published a beautiful photo essay by James Ensing-Trussell from Topic Photo Agency, documenting his trip to Vanuatu on a medical outreach assignment with the Fred Hollows Foundation New Zealand. Mindy Yeh also travelled with the foundation, shooting the outreach assignment on video. The following are the pair’s hard-learned tips to for photojournalists working on location over multiple days.

Outdoor lifestyle photographer Mead Norton outlines the basics of shooting outdoor action with off-camera lighting

D-Photo talks with a handful of summer’s best specialist shooters to get their take on creating worthwhile summer imagery.

Luke White of Kingsize Studios breaks down a painterly portrait into simple lighting elements

Wanaka’s Lot 3 cafe will soon be adorned with stunning South Island landscape photographs captured by Jeremy Town when his exhibition Southern Light opens on November 10. We catch up with Town to find out more about the exhibition

New Zealand Photography Collected has been authored and curated by Athol McCredie and features the work of photographers including James Bragge, Leslie Adkin, Spencer Digby, John Pascoe, Brian Brake, Marti Friedlander, and many, many more. Recently, we had a chat with McCredie about the book and the process behind its creation.

It’s often in the back of your mind when you start to tally up just how much your entire photography equipment kit is worth, and start imagining all of the things that could go wrong, and potentially put you out of business for awhile …