Practical Photography is a monthly UK photography magazine established in 1959, owned by Bauer Media Group

Bauer Verlagsgruppe

The Bauer Media Group is a large German publishing company based in Hamburg, which operates in 15 countries worldwide. Since the company was founded in 1875, it has been privately-owned and under management by the Bauer family. It was formerly called Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG, abbreviated to HBV...

 since it was acquired from EMAP

EMAP

Emap Limited is a British media company, specialising in the production of business-to-business magazines, and the organisation of business events and conferences...

 in 2008.

The magazine includes articles on photographic products, techniques and includes advice, as well as exhibiting and commenting on reader's photographs, and profiling professional photographers. It also hosts an annual 'Photographer of the year' competition between January and July, in which readers may enter. The current editor is Andrew James.

Regular Writers

Regular writers for the magazine include:

• David Noton a professional photographer and writer who specialises in Landscape Photography
  Landscape photography
  Landscape photography is a genre intended to show different spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic. This popular style of photography is practiced by professionals and amateurs alike. Photographs typically capture the presence of nature and are often free...
  
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• David Lam, who covers fashion photography.
• Brian Matthews, a semi-professional wildlife photographer.
• Chris Rutter, a professional photographer and writer who specialises on technique and composition
  Composition (visual arts)
  In the visual arts – in particular painting, graphic design, photography and sculpture – composition is the placement or arrangement of visual elements or ingredients in a work of art or a photograph, as distinct from the subject of a work...
  
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