Ideas

Essays on photography’s big questions, profiles of the photographers who’ve shaped how we see, and recommended viewing on the medium.

Essays
August 1, 2026

From Pictures to Projects: Why Truth Flux Reflects the Continuing Evolution of Tiga Mata

Photography has long celebrated individual images, but Truth Flux brings together eleven projects that invite us to look beyond the single photograph and into the ideas and relationships that shape photographic meaning.
Essays
July 14, 2026

Write What Lasts a Thousand Years

Write something a person a thousand years from now would understand at once—without footnotes, without the scaffolding of your own era.
Values & Practices
June 30, 2026

Five Issues In: The Journey of Tiga Mata So Far

Five issues in, we’re halfway. Looking back, what matters most isn’t the number. It’s the questions that kept opening up along the way.
June 23, 2026

Manipulation Art in the Age of Truth Flux

Tiga Mata Issue #5: Truth Flux gathers work that retouches, appropriates and reconstructs, treating truth not as a stable destination but as something continually reshaped by technology and interpretation.
Essays
June 11, 2026

Between Youth and Visibility: Photography, Queer Identity, and Self-Expression

How young queer people use photography to explore identity, and why the camera becomes a space for self-expression long before self-acceptance.
Essays
October 19, 2025

The AI Controversy in Photography: Rethinking Truth, Authorship, and the Image

AI has forced photography to confront what it actually is: a look at authorship, authenticity and ethics when no camera was ever involved.

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Interviews, essays, photobook spotlights, or a story about the objects photographers carry. No finished draft needed — just a clear angle and why it belongs here.