“We’ve been pioneers in custom builds to help our photographers overcome all challenges and get the images they need. We’ve made history with our photo firsts — our first flash photograph, which was made by the ‘father of wildlife photography‘ George Shiras, was published in 1906. We published the first underwater color photographs, which were made by Dr. William Longley and staff photographer Charles Martin, in 1927. Fast forward to 2019 when photographer/filmmaker Renan Ozturk took the highest drone shot ever made — a 360 of Everest.”
Gruesome photographs of Palestinian children killed in rocket strikes and Israeli infants murdered by terrorists. Digitally doctored images that whip around social media before they can be verified. Accusations — since rejected by multiple news outlets — that photojournalists had advance knowledge of the Hamas surprise attack on Oct. 7.
In the 1980s and 1990s, I chronicled conflicts from El Salvador to Africa to the former Yugoslavia. Those images should remind us to work harder for peace and honour those who did not live to see it
I spent a decade as a war photographer, capturing conflicts from El Salvador to Africa to the former Yugoslavia. Far too many of those images could have been taken today
In the quiet, lonely hours of dawn, Dave Coyle faces his personal struggle while plotting a path towards the future in atmospheric meditations on the landscape of the Pacific Northwest
In the quiet, lonely hours of dawn, Dave Coyle faces his personal struggle while plotting a path towards the future in atmospheric meditations on the landscape of the Pacific Northwest.
Established in July 2020 by Polly Irungu, Black Women Photographers (BWP) is a global community, directory, and hub of over 2,000 Black women and non-binary identifying photographers, spanning over 60 countries and 35 U.S. states. BWP was launched with a $14,500 COVID-19 relief fund to help Black Women Photographers who were in dire need of
Established in July 2020 by Polly Irungu, Black Women Photographers (BWP) is a global community, directory, and hub of over 2,000 Black women and non-binary identifying photographers, spanning over 60 countries and 35 U.S. states. BWP was launched with a $14,500 COVID-19 relief fund to help Black Women Photographers who were in dire need of financial relief due to the pandemic. To date, BWP has provided over $115,000 in financial grants to Black creatives. Today we talk to the team at BWP to learn more about their goals, their hopes for the future, and how they are changing the photo industry still largely dominated by white men.
Today, The Washington Post went further than any mainstream news organization has ever gone before in showing the brutality and devastation of something that plagues this nation: mass shootings.
Eman Mohammed, Palestinian-American award-winning photojournalist, Senior Ted fellow based in DC her journey began at 19, capturing the reality of war in Gaza.
Dean Conger was a world-renowned photographer with a resume of awards so extensive, it’s hard to list them all. He was a trailblazer in the field of photography, leaving an indelible mark on the world through his lens.
The Center for Photographic Art recently opened Collecting Light, Photographs 1973-2023, a solo exhibition by renowned photographer Michael Kenna. In celebration of Kenna’s fiftieth year as a photographer, CPA partnered with Nazraeli Press to create this retrospective exhibition which includes some of the artist’s most beloved images as well as others that may not be
About the book: Kenna has selected one image for each year beginning in 1973 (when he enrolled in the Banbury School of Art, right after leaving seminary boarding school) and for each subsequent year. Following the “Photographs” section is “Stories”, in which Kenna writes a brief text about each photograph in the book, and how the making of it related to his own life’s situation at the time.
Now in its eleventh year, the Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards are an annual celebration of the photobook’s contributions to the evolving narrative of photography. The awards recognize excellence in three major categories of photobook publishing: First PhotoBook, PhotoBook of the Year, and Photography Catalog of the Year.
Lorissa Rinehart joins the podcast this week to discuss her fascinating writing on art, war, and how they go hand in hand. She dives into her fantastic new biography, First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent, explaining how she got the inspiration to write the story of Dickey Chappelle,
Lorissa Rinehart joins the podcast this week to discuss her fascinating writing on art, war, and how they go hand in hand. She dives into her fantastic new biography, First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent, explaining how she got the inspiration to write the story of Dickey Chappelle, the first real female combat photographer. We’ll learn more about Dickey’s incredible story as a global conflict photographer and journalist, and the fortitude it took to break through so many barriers.
I have lived through the move from paste-up to digital design, saw print reduced to almost nothing, led a photo team that was forced to pivot to video and helped design many apps that were supposed to save us all. None of those changes moved at the speed of generative AI.
Simon disagrees with this assessment: “I take note of the [censorship] decision, but I cannot accept it. As a father of four and a grandparent, I firmly reject the idea that our children should be protected from me or from the institution I run,” he writes on Facebook.
Sony has also introduced Pre-Capture, allowing photographers to capture the moment before they fully press the shutter. This mode also works at up to 120 frames per second, so the camera is continuously recording up to a full second of images. Once the shutter is pressed, the a9 III records the second before.
Jan Grarup, a celebrated Danish war photographer has been put on the spot allegedly for ‘magnifying’ his role in a number of events including the 1994 Genocide against the…
Politiken, the media outlet he works for released a statement about him, noting that he admitted that “his memory has failed him in connection with several stories” regarding how he covered the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
After the U.S. Copyright Office put out a call for opinions on how copyright should work with AI-generated material, the world’s biggest AI companies had a lot to say.
Her fame as a photographer, and her leadership role as a defender of her profession on issues of copyright and credit, were all the more notable because the field at the time was so overwhelmingly dominated by men.
The proliferation of images via cell phones may have taken away the war photographer’s ability to create a single, arresting, and iconic image, but their accumulation will haunt us.
neither the cell phone video nor the drone will explain what has really happened. They are better processed as phenomena of social media, which never really tells us anything new but, rather, provides an endless stream of confirmations of what we think we already know
A barrage of social media disinformation related to the escalating Israel-Palestine war has made it far more difficult to discern the credibility of visual evidence
