Magazine Rack
Spend time browsing through one of the following free online photography magazines for artistic inspiration.
If you know of any other excellent free online photography magazines, please make a suggestion for consideration using this contact form.
100 Eyes
100Eyes is an online photographic showcase featuring contemporary photography including documentary, art, and journalistic photography. Edited by Andy Levin, 100Eyes is made possible by the generosity of photographers who donate their work in the spirit of a shared photographic community.
1000 Words
1000 Words is a online magazine dedicated to highlighting the best of contemporary fine art photography in the UK and beyond. It encourages critical awareness with photography through engaging articles from widely published arts writers across the world. We are committed to showing portfolios of highly established photographers alongside those of emerging artists with the view to bringing their work to the wider public. Often incredibly diverse in terms of subjects, concepts, styles and techniques, yet by covering a wide spectrum of genres 1000 Words intends to make us consider the contemporary photograph.
ahorn magazine
Ahorn is an online magazine dedicated to contemporary photography, directed and edited by Daniel Augschoell and Anya Jasbar.
The principal aim is to give to our readers a tool to know what’s happening in contemporary photography, and to offer emerging photographers an interesting place to bring their work to a wider audience.
burn
burn is an evolving journal for emerging photographers. burn was launched as an online magazine/journal on December 21, 2008, and is curated by Magnum photographer David Alan Harvey. We publish new stories or singles at least three times per week.
grey
grey is an online bimonthly black and white photography magazine. Its purpose lies in presenting portfolios of artists who express themselves through black and white photography. grey is free for anyone to download
FILE magazine
The purpose of FILE is to collect and display photographs that treat subjects in unexpected ways. Alternate takes, odd angles, unconventional observations - these are some of the ways photographs collected in FILE reinterpret traditional genres. We leave the Kodak Moments to the family album, the glossy fashion spreads to Vogue, and the photo finishes to ESPN. Rather than taking the well-trod paths, we veer off to get a different perspective.
FOTO8
This is an online version of the UK magazine.
Fraction Magazine
Fraction Magazine was started in a little coffee shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico in March of 2008 by Joshua Spees and David Bram. In 2009, Josh got married, moved to the East Coast, and is now pursuing other photographic avenues.
Today, Fraction Magazine is edited and curated by David, and often includes guest curators and writers such as Melanie McWhorter, Mary Goodwin and Larissa Leclair.
F-Stop
F-STOP MAGAZINE is an online photography magazine featuring contemporary photography from established and emerging photographers from around the world. Each issue has a theme or an idea that the unites the photographs to create a dynamic dialogue among the artists.
lens culture
Lens Culture is an online magazine celebrating international contemporary photography, art, media, and world cultures.
Light & Composition
Light and Composition is a monthly photography magazine that aims to inspire people towards the true essence of photography. Photography is all about how one understands and captures the rhythms and harmonies of light, with artistic vision, where the composition lies, to its essence.
Our aim is to take one around this world, to people, nature, and culture, in pursuit of value and authenticity. Most importantly, our magazine is about seeing and portraying the world through the lens using a purist’s perspective.
National Geographic — Photography
This is the photography section of the National Geographic magazine, which really needs no further explanation.
PhotographyBB
The PhotographyBB Online Magazine is composed by a hardworking team of volunteer contributing authors whose goal is to teach beginners all about digital photography and image processing.
Go to here for free downloadable PDF formatted versions of the magazine.
Pixels and Prose
First published in December of 2004, Pixels and Prose is a online magazine and community dedicated to the art and science of photography.
We aim to cover all realms of “the art and science of photography” — from equipment and techniques to light and composition to traditional and digital photography. We’ll do our best to publish fresh, interesting imagery and content each month.
the37thFRAME
Online magazine dedicated to bringing the best photojournalism to its Internet readers.
VII
VII The Magazine is an innovative online project that will give readers unprecedented intimate access and insight to the work of the world’s leading photojournalists.
The features are edited specifically for online distribution and are accompanied by intimate commentaries from the photographers themselves, recorded exclusively for VII The Magazine.
Zone Zero
ZoneZero ® is a site dedicated to image making & photography. Founded in 1994 by Pedro Meyer, ZoneZero ® has been both witness and active participant of the ongoing digital (r)evolution. ZoneZero ® first appeared online when the internet became a public resource, making it the oldest website dedicated to photography that is still standing and growing. We are proud to acknowledge that ZoneZero ® paved the way for thinking that viewing photography on a computer screen was a legitimate platform.