Photography is not a mirror. It is a decision — about light, time, framing, meaning. IMAGE IN PROGRESS was founded in 2010 to document that decision in all its complexity: the creative choices, the technical mastery, and the human stories that exist just beyond the edge of every frame.
In a media landscape that rewards speed over depth, IMAGE IN PROGRESS takes the opposite position. Each biannual issue is a considered object — printed and distributed across Europe, the Americas and Asia — built around voices that rarely make it to the front page: the set designer who transforms a location into a dream, the photo editor who decides which image defines a generation, the postproducer who renders invisible what the eye alone could not see.
Exclusive interviews with major international names sit alongside intimate profiles of the professionals who work behind the scenes — location scouts, art directors, stylists, hair and make-up artists, models, publishers, gallery owners. These are figures who shape the visual culture we inhabit daily yet seldom receive credit beyond a line of small print. In IMAGE IN PROGRESS they speak at length, in their own words, sharing technical choices, creative convictions, and the tricks of a trade that is at once industrial and deeply personal.
Special attention is paid to extraordinary locations and to the intersection of photography with architecture, interior design and material culture — not as backdrop, but as co-author. Every issue proposes spaces and environments as active agents in the image-making process, with a specific focus on sites suited for editorial and avant-garde commercial productions.
For its readers — photographers, creative directors, collectors, publishers, educators and image professionals of every kind — IMAGE IN PROGRESS is at once a training ground for the eye, a practical resource and a long-form meditation on what photography means when it is taken seriously.
Who reads Image in Progress
The readership is by design a focused one. Photographers, collectors, publishers, gallery and auction house professionals, location scouts, set designers, art directors, photo editors, stylists, make-up artists, hair stylists, models and postproducers — professionals who rarely receive recognition beyond credits, but who collectively make up the true engine of the image industry. The magazine reaches them directly and speaks to them as peers.
IMAGE IN PROGRESS è Associato all'Unione Stampa Periodica Italiana.
Image in Progress is a member of the Unione Stampa Periodica Italiana (USPI), the Italian association of periodical publishers.