“Plane spotters” gather in and around airports to marvel at (and photograph) their favorite flights—and Texan spotters just got to witness the descent of the largest passenger plane in the world.
Chris DuCharme is self-taught, armed with a telephoto lens and words of encouragement from his late wife.
This April, the Blaffer Art Museum will display Francis’s portraits of Texans from Beyoncé to Ann Richards—some of which appeared in this magazine.
A decade after losing one of their own, the former residents of an Austin housing project reckon with their upbringing and the tragedy that changed them.
Baldwin, who died in December, fought in Korea, met Picasso, traveled the world, and, with his wife, Wendy Watriss, made Houston a photography capital.
From Leon Bridges’s home in Fort Worth to a vibrant coral reef near Galveston, this year took our photographers to some truly unforgettable places.
A dozen Texas artists tackle subjects both famous (Selena) and personal (family migration, motherhood) in this Texas Biennial show.
Morgan Page and Dustin Rice spent nearly three years roaming the state for "Bones of Texas," which features images of long-gone communities.
He’s spent more than seven years documenting the city’s life, landscape, and architecture.
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The San Marcos venture has the airbrushed, colorful backgrounds and kitschy props that I've studied in my family's albums.
As multiple crises unfold across the state, photographers captured Texans doing their damnedest to keep warm and safe.
For more than two years, culminating in a pandemic and a recession, Richard Sharum photographed Dallas families who are experiencing homelessness—the moments of great pain and frustration and, through it all, the moments of levity.
From a homing pigeon in flight to a kayaking trip on the lower Pecos River, these are our favorite images from the year.
Powerful images that trace the arc of this truly historic year.
The Houston Center for Photography asked people around the world to submit images taken during lockdown. The resulting online show ranges from the mundane to the sublime.
Trent Lesikar’s ongoing ‘The Shape of Texas’ series teases out connections between the state’s different eras.
Frustrated by the perception of the border as a lawless land, two native sons embarked on a 1,200-mile journey to capture, through a series of images and letters, the region’s untold stories.
MFAH curators added an emphasis on diversity and Lone Star celebrities to the special exhibit, ’Icons of Style,’ since its LA debut.
One of three Texans to earn a fellowship this year, Jennifer Garza-Cuen explores the interconnections of place and identity in her stunning images.
‘The Upshaws of County Line,’ a new book and exhibit currently at the Museum of the Big Bend, chronicles a safe haven established by African American Texans.
In "Texas From Above," photographer Jay B. Sauceda captured the varied edges of Texas, from South Padre Island to the Panhandle.
Icons and archetypes that reveal what it means to be Texan.
For his latest book, photographer Randal Ford took a walk on the wild(life) side.
Wyatt McSpadden’s latest collection of photographs is a call to action to explore and discover the joints you find on the backroads and in small towns.
From aerial shots to James Harden to Instagram-worthy plates, these are our favorite images from the past year.
Photos and memories from the public pool that brings a city together.
When Hurricane Harvey hit Hungerford, seventeen-year-old Logan Goudeau and her community came together to save their livestock. By helicopter.
An excerpt from Proof: Photographs From Four Generations of a Texas Family captures a slice of Texas life.
The incandescent unreality of Rocky Schenck is on display in the photographer's second collection.
Vacation envy, vintage edition.
Travel the state through the lenses of these pros.
Behind the lens with photographer Laura Wilson.
Your move, cat pics people.
Luling’s artful pump jacks.
Dallas-based photographer Allison V. Smith took over Texas Monthly's Instagram account during her trip to Marfa this weekend. Here are some highlights from her trip.
The Dallas photographer shows us where she works.
Why a lavish two-volume attack on the border fence, with photos by Maurice Sherif, misses the mark.
The title of James Evans’s new series of Big Bend photographs is “The Camera Never Sleeps.” It doesn’t matter, apparently, that the photographer does.
James H. Evans has been photographing Big Bend for twenty years. But never before has it looked so, well, big.
A new collection of Keith Carter’s photographs captures the magical mojo of East Texas.
A visual tour of my beautiful, mysterious, surreal corner of East Texas.
The moment that members of the tejano band David Lee Garza y Los Musicales saw a poster by San Antonian John Dyer, they knew they had found the photographer for their next album. “We wanted more than just a face on a cover,” says bassist Richard Garza, “and his poster
For photographer Wyatt McSpadden, the barbecue joints of Texas are soot-stained temples of meat and their pitmasters solemn keepers of an old-time religion.
Thirty years after he took his first photograph for us—of charming kook Stanley Marsh 3—contributing photographer Wyatt McSpadden looks back on his extraordinary career and tells the stories behind some of our favorite images.
Even on her one-hundredth birthday, the Texas Capitol looks good in places other building don’t even have places.
The Los Angeles–based photographer spent more than twenty days driving all across the state and tells us what he saw.
Seven Texas photographers do their best to reinvent that time-honored, heartwarming, slightly cheesy tradition: the bluebonnet photo.
Read an excerpt from a new book by Maurice Sherif.
“I always approach it as if I’m going to take the picture and, for whatever reason, that’s it. There won’t be another chance.”
