What scares a nation - gunmen who hold children ransom or infamous terrorists? Useful Photography 011 rifles through the history of human targets culled from US shooting ranges. In this age of high impact gun crime, are the participants seeking protection or accelerating the violence?

‘Useful Photography’ features overlooked and underwhelming images taken for practical purposes. This issue presents the meticulous work of the “script continuity supervisor” on a film set, where details about every shot have to be recorded: camera angles, dialogue, sound, lighting, weather, gestures, and makeup and wardrobe. A battle scene, for instance, may take days to shoot, so the costumes of the actors and extras and their wounds are photographed to ensure they can be accurately ...

A magazine published once a year focusing on overlooked and underwhelming images taken for practical purposes and is collected & edited by Hans Aarsman, Julian Germain, Frank Schallmaier and Erik Kessels. (Previous editors: Claudie de Cleen and Hans van der Meer).

The magazine's focus is to explore images created for practical purposes, in this case, the photographs used to guide solvers of jigsaw puzzles in their endeavours. These pictures, from animals, television and sports to postcard-perfect destinations, are printed on cardboard and cut into various pieces of different shapes that must be fitted together to form the whole. Usually found on the puzzle box's exterior, they are exact duplicates of the completed game - the perfect version of the puzz...