Documentary & Reportage | 52 by 52 — Weekly photo challenges set by accomplished photographers

Beauty’s Nothing. Show me your take on this.
— Nadav Kander

Nadav Kander | Read more

Try to see geometrically. Imagine that everything we see hides shapes, lines, circles, squares, triangles, spots…
— Gustavo Jononovich

Gustavo Jononovich | Read more

Take a photograph of yourself, from behind the camera.
— Kate Peters

Kate Peters | Read more

Make a color photograph of a scene that has no (or very little) color. Think monochromatic.
— Christopher Anderson

Christopher Anderson | Read more

The painter Bonnard said “Make little lies to tell a great truth”. Use that as your inspiration.
— Chloe Dewe Mathews

Chloe Dewe Mathews | Read more

“Try again, fail again, fail better.”
(Samuel Beckett)— Richard Mosse

Richard Mosse | Read more

Photograph something that can never happen again.
— Harry Benson

Harry Benson | Read more

Photograph your feelings in a state of boredom.
— Gerd Ludwig

Gerd Ludwig | Read more

Use your camera as an excuse to go and spend time with someone that you’ve always been curious about.
— Olivia Arthur

Olivia Arthur | Read more

Try and apply a technique or style that is widely associated with a specific photographic genre and use it in an unconventional way.
— Maja Daniels

Maja Daniels | Read more

Take a photograph that is strong and necessary of something which is not photogenic.
— Paolo Woods

Paolo Woods | Read more

Take two things that do not fit together, and put them together.
— Klaus Pichler

Klaus Pichler | Read more

Use a Random Point Generator to pick the exact location where you make a photograph.
— Alec Soth

Alec Soth | Read more

Go into your archive and find an orphaned photo as an inspiration for a new photo – have it feed your consciousness, to inspire a newer – and better – version.
— Donald Weber

Donald Weber | Read more

Photograph something you’ve been looking at or walking past for a long time, but which you’ve never photographed before.
— Palani Mohan

Palani Mohan | Read more

Take a photograph that depicts the binding and bonding of people local to you.
— Jim Mortram

Jim Mortram | Read more

Find a situation or environment that puts you ill at ease, or embarrasses you, and make an image.
— Benjamin Lowy

Benjamin Lowy | Read more

Take a photograph that reveals something about yourself that you’ve never shown before.
— Phillip Toledano

Phillip Toledano | Read more

Choose your favourite poem and try to represent a line of it visually.
— Marcus Bleasdale

Marcus Bleasdale | Read more

Ask someone if you can spend half an hour in their company whilst you try and capture their true essence / personality.
— Jenny Wicks

Jenny Wicks | Read more

Think of your surrounding as elements of light, not objects.
— Matthew Niederhauser

Matthew Niederhauser | Read more

Take the greatest picture you can of that in which you truly believe.
— Simon Norfork

Simon Norfork | Read more

Take a photo that captures three distinctive actions within the same frame.
— Tomas Van Houtryve

Tomas Van Houtryve | Read more

Take a picture at night – however, added flash or long exposures are not allowed – use solely available light, whether artificial or natural.
— Mikko Takkunen

Mikko Takkunen | Read more

“If a photographer cares about the people before the lens and is compassionate, much is given. It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.” (Eve Arnold)
— David Chancellor

David Chancellor | Read more

Photograph something that you have never shot before, in a style you have never used before, so the photo is not recognisable as yours!
— Martin Parr

Martin Parr | Read more