A photographer who attended this year's Burning Man says that despite the rain and the mud having a huge effect on the festival, it was still "amazing" and he came back with a unique set of images.
The Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo, from 15 June to 15 October 2023, features The Orient, emphasizing photography in Iran and Afghanistan. The photo exhibits are all outdoors over 7 kilometers (4.3 miles), making it the longest outdoor gallery, which a quarter million visitors will view.
Photographer Jamen Percy shot a mind-boggling gigapixel photo of this year's Burning Man festival held in the Nevada desert.
Photographer Mike Schreiber attended the infamous Woodstock '99 festival where he captured the mayhem, and controversy unfolding in front of him.
Indonesia is an incredible archipelago containing thousands of islands, hundreds of volcanoes, tribes, dialects, and cultures. After exploring Java, Bali, and Lombok, I traveled to Flores where I witnessed something truly unexpected.
Ah, you've just received your first camera over the holiday season and you're itching to use it. Or, perhaps you're just looking for something new to photograph for this year. Well, might I suggest the following: You should photograph a hot air balloon festival!
It's not every day that you come across a camera that's big enough for the photographer to stand in. But that's what photographer Ross den Otter built for the recent Capture Photography Festival in Vancouver, Canada: he shot portraits from inside a 4x8x8-foot camera obscura.
Strapping thousands of dollars of camera gear to your body and navigating large crowds of intoxicated fans can present unique risks to professional music photographers. Never is that risk greater than at music festivals.
The municipality of Tultepec in Mexico produces about half of all of the country's fireworks. Every year, more than 100,000 people flock to the area for a nine day event called the National Pyrotechnic Festival. There are activities common to a fair (e.g. food, music, dancing), but the biggest reason people attend is to experience the dazzling firework displays.
Photographer Thomas Prior traveled from New York to attend one of these festivals, and ended up capturing a collection of beautiful photographs showing people partying from within explosions.
Each summer, White Nights arts festivals are held in several cities all over the globe, and in 2003, the festival added Tel Aviv to its list. The festivals go all night, and Tel Aviv is about to celebrate their 10th on the 26th of this month.
In preparation for the all-night festivities to come, Vania Heymann, a second year student in Bezalel school of art and design in Jerusalem, put together this very creative mix of video and time-lapse that uses forced perspective and the moon to advertise the coming festival.
Every year in Catalonia, Spain, there are festivals in which people come together to build colorful -- and ridiculously tall -- human towers that are supported by nothing but the participants' strength, balance, and courage. These towers are called castells, which means 'castles' in Catalan.
Photographer David Oliete visited the Concurs de Castells festival last year and managed to capture beautiful photographs of the tradition from a high vantage point.
New York-based production company Variable traveled to India and pointed a Phantom Flex …
Nikon just announced the winners of the Nikon Festival short film (140 seconds or less) contest a few hours ago, with the grand prize winner going to Marko Slavnic for his Chicken VS Penguin film embedded above. The win comes with a cool $100,000 and a Nikon D5000 DSLR kit.