Choices is a Warhol-esque (or Gursky-esque) project by photographer Richard Stultz, who visited various stores to document the mind-numbingly large number of choices consumers are faced while shopping.
While a number of countries are taking steps to ban the unrealistic Photoshopping of models, Israel has …
The Pink & Blue Project by South Korean photographer JeongMee Yoon started seven years ago after she photographed a portrait of her 5-year-old daughter sitting next to her beloved pink possessions. She then began creating portraits of other girls who loved pink things, and then other boys who loved blue.
Toys are getting fancier and cameras are getting weirder. Mattel is set to launch a new camera barbie called …
Now here’s an absolutely bizarre statistic if it’s actually true: 76 percent of Facebook photos with tagged Britons show …
Consumer affairs blog The Consumerist caused a stir earlier this week by offering the following advice to people looking to earn some extra cash for the holidays.
Japanese camera ads are sometimes very different from those you might see in the US. We’re still trying to …
Here’s another sign of the changing times: so many camera shoppers are turning to the Internet for deals that …
Social Lights is a project by photographer Seymour Templar that's like a nighttime version of Joe Holmes' Texting series that we featured earlier this year. Templar documented social life in NYC by snapping portraits of people interacting with others through their cell phones. Each individual unwittingly helps out by lighting their own faces with their phone displays.
You know you’re addicted to analog photography if your fridge has more film than food. Image credit: …
Apparently Annie Leibovitz is a proponent of the idea that the best camera is the one you have with you. When asked by NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams about her camera recommendation to friends, the famed portrait photographer made a surprising pick: the iPhone.
German photographer Andreas Gursky is one of the most successful artists of our …
Here are some fantastic compliations of commercials promoting Japanese camera companies. They aired from the 1970s to the 1990s. The video above is the Canon collection.
For three years, Italy-based photographer James Mollison visited music concerts and photographed the rabid fans outside. The resulting photographs became an interesting project titled, The Disciples, which shows how people emulate the singers and bands they love to form their identity.
Photographer Tony Wu constantly receives requests that ask whether he would be willing to work for free in exchange for "credit" and "exposure". Instead of a lengthy response explaining why he doesn't want to work for free, Wu often leaves the emails unanswered, or worse, ends up sending snippy responses that he later regrets. He recently came up with the idea of writing a generic and informational response that all professional photographers can respond with.
If you think about it, there are many parallels between Apple and Polaroid: both companies introduced innovative products that …
Back in 1937, art director M.F. Agha wrote a piece in U.S. Camera magazine titled The Hippocratic Oath of a Photographer, which warns photographs not to pursue common photographic clichés that were saturating the industry. It's an interesting glimpse into what popular photo subjects were back in the day.
Some Atlanta-based photographer posted a humorous Craigslist ad on Monday highlighting the fact that people often assume that photographers will be happy to do work for free.
tokyo camera style by John Sypal (see our interview with him) is a popular website documenting the analog camera culture in Tokyo, Japan by sharing photographs of cameras being used on the streets -- it's like The Sartorialist except for cameras instead of fashion. If you're a fan of the site and love browsing photos of old school cameras people use, you'll be happy to know that there's a number of similar websites for other cities and places around the world.
Tokyo-based editorial photographer Irwin Wong created this funny Justin Bieber parody song titled …
Apparently Nikon has decide to save some trees (and shipping weight) by no longer including user manuals in some of its digital cameras. Since most people likely never touch the manuals anyway, it's not really a problem, but the company's draconian stance towards downloadable instruction manuals has some customers grumbling.
Have you ever noticed how ridiculous many of the poses seen in fashion and glamor photographs are? Artist …
The Long Beach Police Department's hunt for photos with "no apparent esthetic value" quickly became national news last week. Here's a news segment in which Alyona Minkovski of RT speaks out against the erosion of photographers' rights in the United States.
A Pennsylvania photographer named Jennifer McKendrick has caused quite a stir by canceling senior portrait sessions with a group of high school girls after discovering evidence of bullying by the teens on Facebook.
I love what the Internet has done for the sharing of photography. Social websites such as Flickr make it so easy to get our work in front of the faces of people on the other side of the Earth so easily that it boggles my mind sometimes. This incredible ability of technology has one horrible side effect however. I'm talking about title fields.
Check out this fictional Nikon DSLR spotted in the British science fiction TV show Torchwood. It looks strangely familiar.
What do you think of this photo of a refinery by photographer Sander Roscoe Wolff? Apparently Long Beach police …
Here’s a fun and cute baby picture idea for photo enthusiast parents. Nikon should drop Kutcher and hire this …
Here's how Urban Dictionary defines 'photographer'.
In the middle of last year, Google finally gave users the option of customizing its homepage with a photograph.
Did you know that the original Star Wars lightsaber was made using antique camera parts? If you have an old Speed Graphic press camera, you may even have a replica lightsaber sitting on your shelf without knowing it.
Someone wasn’t careful while using the “Swatches” panel in Photoshop and accidentally spilled it all over this bed spread! …
This is Photoshop Inception. They say when you reach limbo you find yourself in an HDR program.
It’s estimated that 8 million people in the US struggle with an eating …
This artist statement has magical subtitles that translate what the artist is saying. Google needs to add this technology …
Kate Spade’s Pocomo Gwem handbag features a pretty well-known rangefinder camera.
If you’re planning to try your hand at solargraphy, it might be a …
You know the “anyone can cook” mantra spoken by Chef Gusteau in Pixar’s …
Apparently this is what some police officers see when they look at a camera, which explains the horror stories of photographers being harassed by law enforcement for having cameras and making pictures.
Planking (AKA the "lying down game") is a growing fad that involves lying face down in strange places with your arms to the side and snapping a photograph of it.