About
A quiet place for photographs
Frames and Moments began as a printed zine passed between six photographers. It is now a curated community of several thousand — and the editing standard has not moved.
Our story
Why this exists
Photography has never had more distribution and never had less attention. A frame that took three winters to make gets the same second and a half as everything else.
We wanted the opposite: a platform where the work is sequenced rather than streamed, where an editor stands behind what appears on the homepage, and where the photographer's name sits next to the picture instead of underneath a metric.
There are no follower counts on profiles. There is no algorithm deciding whose work deserves a second look. There is a small editorial team, a monthly brief, and a community that turns up for both.
“Show fewer pictures. Show them larger. Say who made them.”
The founding note, 2021
The picture first
Interface should disappear. Every design decision here is measured against whether it helps you look at a photograph for longer.
Curation over volume
Editors read every submission. We would rather publish forty frames a week that deserve attention than four thousand that do not.
Credit, always
Photographers are named beside their work everywhere it appears — in collections, in challenges, in the magazine.
International by default
Members photograph in eighty-one countries. The homepage should not look like it was made in one of them.
- 12,400
- Photographers
- 81
- Countries
- 96,000
- Frames published
- 24
- Collections a year
Your Work Deserves to Be Seen
Join a community built for photographers who care about the picture more than the metrics. Membership is free while Frames and Moments is in its first season.