In this issue

Portfolio: Eyes Land. Spontaneity in photography, orchestrating the grotesque, and concentrating on the essential. Daniel Josefsohn’s extremely artful fashion series with the S2.

Portfolio: Light and the Moment. Using an M6, Thomas Stoffaneller takes portraits of blind people in Malaysia as they go through their daily lives.

Interview with Alfred Schopf: Leica’s new chairman of the board, Alfred Schopf, talks to LFI, takes stock of photokina and outlines his direction for Leica’s future product strategy.

Travel Photography: A close encounter with the Berlin photographer, Johannes Barthelmes, his pictures taken in Cuba and India, and the fascination of traveling with a Leica M.

Black & White with the M8: Making the best out of the M8’s infrared sensitivity. Effective experiments with the IR filter and nuance-rich black & white photography without any filter.

The Histogram: Part 2. Using histogram information in picture processing for lighting, contrast and tonal value corrections.

Image Creation: Part 3 of the workshop series with Torsten Andreas Hoffmann. Composing with the triangle and circle meta symbols.