According to AFP, the “proof of concept” is ready, and one can verify the images whenever they appear on the web. The agency now intends to collaborate with the industry to advance this technology to protect its readers and photographers. This includes camera manufacturers, editing software developers, and news distributors to help safeguard photojournalism and its integrity.
Anastasiia Leonova is a publisher, art manager, curator, and co-founder of ist publishing based in Ukraine. Between 2014–20, she ran an independent art gallery in Kharkiv focused on contemporary art. With a background in Sociology and Art History, she specialises in photography and photobooks. Leonova is the curator of Mystetska Biblioteka, a project promoting contemporary artistic editions, and runs The Naked Books, a Kyiv-based shop dedicated to artistic books. She founded BOOK CHAMPIONS WEEKEND, a festival for photobook publishers, in 2021, and served on the jury for the 2023 Dummy Book Award.
For us, every book we publish is a commitment – not just to the artist, but to the audience and the questions that define our moment. Whether it’s a local story in Ukraine or a conversation about war, memory and identity, our goal is to create books that transcend their pages, sparking the kind of engagement that can reshape how we see and understand the world.
Ross was an artificial intelligence (AI) startup that Thomson Reuters sued in 2020 after it attempted to build a legal search engine using data from Thomson Reuter’s legal search engine, Westlaw. Judge Bibas writes in his decision that “none of Ross’s possible defenses holds water” against copyright infringement accusations
Alec Soth is one of the most important fine-art photographers working today. Beginning with his groundbreaking projects “Sleeping By The Mississippi” and “Broken Manual” to his most current books like “A Pound of Pictures” and “Advice For Young Ar…
Alec Soth is one of the most important fine-art photographers working today. Beginning with his groundbreaking projects “Sleeping By The Mississippi” and “Broken Manual” to his most current books like “A Pound of Pictures” and “Advice For Young Artists,” For decades Alec has deftly created work of great emotional depth. It was an honor to welcome him to the podcast.
Every spring, I try to attend the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) annual conference to reconnect with friends, hear and learn from a variety of artists, and discover new work through portfolio reviews and the portfolio walk. Last year, the conference took place in St. Louis, MO and was every bit as fun and inspiring as
As a documentary/street photographer and digital montage artist, I am exploring American identity and sense of place. My long-term project, is an eclectic urban documentation of everyday life to special events, addressing style, character, and social atmosphere. Often my focus is on public spaces featuring the details of socio-cultural signifiers referencing popular culture and contemporary trends (including hair, body art, and fashion), national history, seasonal traditions, and current news where I observe people’s attempts to simultaneously stand out yet fit in somewhere.
“More than 50 years later, I cannot understand why Mr. Carl Robinson, a fellow employee of the AP in Saigon at the time, would make up a story and claim I did not take that iconic photo, The Terror or War aka Napalm Girl,” he writes.
if photography is to survive, the community will need to institute rigorous measures to help certify what is real photograph from what is generated images
Below are the three broad approaches—technological, behavioral, and legislative—that can create an infrastructure supporting photography as a reliable witness. Each is described in more depth, highlighting specific tools and standards that could tangibly bolster trust in light-based imagery.
Long Distance Drunk is a collection of images that explore overlooked spaces and moments across America. From Deep Water Press, Jordan Gale has put together a series of images without a clear connection taken during his time working as an assignment photographer. The images bring the viewer in with their clear movement and emotion, showing
Long Distance Drunk is a collection of images that explore overlooked spaces and moments across America. From Deep Water Press, Jordan Gale has put together a series of images without a clear connection taken during his time working as an assignment photographer
This past December, I had the great pleasure of meeting Thomas Crawford and his work at the PhotoNOLA Portfolio Reviews, and then sharing wallspace with him in the Currents 2025 Exhibition at the Ogden Museum. His creative methodology to considering landscape through satellite imagery is fascinating. He is using the human built environment as a starting
My photo landscapes, all derived from satellite imagery, do not idealize conventional beauty found in mountain vistas or pastoral valleys. Instead, they show unexpected beauty in urban settings often dismissed as eyesores.
What we’re reading returns for 2025 by picking up on works that expose the politics of narrative – how history, crisis, and dissent are mediated. From a critique of Max Pinckers’ colonial reenactments that obscure lived realities to a clickbait piece that declares photography’s renaissance given ‘AI becomes harder to detect,’ Thomas King traces docudrama, revisits Mike Davis’ urgent interventions on California’s wildfires, The Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster, and explores uncompromising responses to institutional narratives – or their reinforcement – via the furore surrounding Nan Goldin’s recent speech at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
What we’re reading returns for 2025 by picking up on works that expose the politics of narrative – how history, crisis, and dissent are mediated. From a critique of Max Pinckers’ colonial reenactments that obscure lived realities to a clickbait piece that declares photography’s renaissance given ‘AI becomes harder to detect’, Thomas King traces docudrama, revisits Mike Davis’ urgent interventions on California’s wildfires, The Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster, and explores uncompromising responses to institutional narratives – or their reinforcement – via the furore surrounding Nan Goldin’s recent speech at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
In this lyrical collection of poems and photographs, Rebecca Norris Webb charts her journey through the loss of her brother as she follows the migration of birds through the American South and Northern France.
It was so wonderful to return to New Orleans this past December and celebrate all things photographic during PhotoNOLA. Today we share some of the highlights of the events, and discuss the Portfolio Reviews from both sides of the table. I was a reviewer and Lenscratch Editor, Karen Bullock was a reviewee and had a chance
It was so wonderful to return to New Orleans this past December and celebrate all things photographic during PhotoNOLA. Today we share some of the highlights of the events, and discuss the Portfolio Reviews from both sides of the table. I was a reviewer and Lenscratch Editor, Karen Bullock was a reviewee and had a chance to chat with some of the participants about their experience.
A new Sundance documentary, which questions the provenance of a Vietnam War icon, has set off a pitched battle between photojournalists and the filmmakers.
A new Sundance documentary, which questions the provenance of a Vietnam War icon, has set off a pitched battle between photojournalists and the filmmakers.
The girl in the photo Kim Phuc calls the documentary an “outrageous and false attack on Nick Ut” adding she would “never participate in the Gary Knight film because I know it is false.”
We hope you take some time to explore their work. To all these photographers, and our LensCulture community, thank you for being a part of our journey. Cheers to another two decades of visionary discoveries!
For months members of the public have been using GeoSpy, a tool trained on millions of images that can find the location a photo was taken based on soil, architecture, and more. It’s GeoGuesser at scale.
For months members of the public have been using GeoSpy, a tool trained on millions of images that can find the location a photo was taken based on soil, architecture, and more. It’s GeoGuesser at scale.
