A week after World Press Photo suspended Nick Ut's credit on the famous Napalm Girl photo, big names in photojournalism have come to Ut's defense and attacked The Stringer and the people behind it for a perceived lack of transparency.
This week on The PetaPixel Podcast, Chris, Jordan, and I are joined once again by Sarah Teng and the four of us discuss what we would have perhaps done differently with the new Fujifilm X half design.
A major retrospective of photographer Lee Miller's work will be displayed in London this coming fall. It will be one of the most extensive exhibits of her work ever shown and the largest ever in the UK.
Legendary Brazilian social documentary photographer Sebastião Salgado has died at age 81.
The most advanced mobile photography features are a trickle-down affair where some end up being part of mid-range and affordable phones. That’s been Google’s Pixel A series in a nutshell, only in the case of the Pixel 9a, it also applies to the AI-driven tools that play a key role in the broader imaging package.
Nikon announced today that it will increase the prices of its products in the United States in one month, on June 23, 2025, due to tariffs.
President Donald Trump has threatened Apple with a tariff of "at least 25%" if iPhone models sold in the United States are not manufactured in the U.S. This very targeted escalation in trade policy rhetoric sent Apple's stock down 3.7% as of writing. The company's stock is down nearly 20% so far this year.
Apple's smart glasses designed to compete with Meta Ray-Bans will reportedly be released by the end of 2026, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.
President Trump held up a photo from the Democratic Republic of Congo as evidence of murders in South Africa this week.
Born in Lyon, France, Thomas Blanchard is an award-winning artist who has reached worldwide acclaim, numerous exhibitions, and recognition for his powerful visual works blending chemistry and art into mesmerizing timelapses.
Canon, in collaboration with Samy's Camera, the Los Angeles Times, and ULCA's School of Theater, Film, and Television, is helping provide essential resources, services, and opportunities to people dealing with the aftermath of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires earlier this year, including the Eaton and Palisades fires that did the majority of the damage.
Light Lens Lab's new 50mm f/1.5 "Z21" is now available. Announced last month, the lens is an homage to the legendary and rare P. Angenieux Type S20 50mm f/1.5 lens produced initially in the 1950s.
Viltrox, manufacturer of affordable, high-quality lenses and accessories, has just announced two new on-camera touchscreen monitors.
Kolari Vision, a photo and tech company known for its specialized infrared and ultraviolet products and camera conversion services, has announced new magnetic clip-in filters for Micro Four Thirds cameras, including OM System, Panasonic, and Blackmagic Design models.
A bride has taken to Reddit for advice after accepting free photography at her wedding as a "gift" but has since been sent a bill.
Photographers are reporting that Adobe Stock is imposing upload limits after the image-selling platform has been swamped with AI imagery.
We’re excited to announce the "Goodbye Spring, Hello Summer Giveaway”! Once again, we’ve partnered with some outstanding brands to offer an incredible prize package. One lucky winner will receive a LUMIX S5II full-frame mirrorless camera with a 20-60mm f/3.5-5.6 lens, ProMaster’s Epoch 328/4W Tripod Kit, plus a collection of other unique photography products.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has achieved another record. Scientists using the groundbreaking telescope have detected light from an ancient galaxy, MoM-z14, just 280 million years following the Big Bang. It is the most distant, oldest galaxy ever photographed, and its very existence is puzzling.
Retouch4me, developer of a leading AI-based photo and video editing platform, has released Apex, a new plugin designed specifically for portrait retouching. The Apex plugin promises natural-looking, professional portrait retouching in under a minute.
An upcoming exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery invites visitors to explore the rise of the grand-scale, whole-plate photographic portrait -- from the luxurious daguerreotype to the more affordable tintype.
A hospital employee, who claims his ex-girlfriend shared his naked selfie without his consent, has been told that his nude photo is not protected by privacy laws because he took the picture while at work.
A high school has made a creative video where graduates answer questions from themselves when they were in the sixth grade.
A hilarious video of a wedding photographer getting uncontrollably excited when a rainbow suddenly appears during a couple's shoot has blown up on social media.
Google launched its new AI video model Veo 3 this week and people have already created incredibly impressive synthetic videos from it.
Urban explorer photographer Isaac Wright, otherwise known as “Drift”, says that police put out a warrant for his arrest after he posted an image on Instagram a few months ago.
When Fujifilm teased its new X half camera, the industry went into a tizzy trying to figure out if it was a half-frame analog camera or a compact digital. It turns out that the Fujifilm X half is actually not half a camera but more like two cameras in one.
Fujifilm has announced the X half, a premium digital compact camera that packs an 18-megapixel Type 1 sensor into a tiny camera body designed as a love letter to half-frame film photography.
Ricoh Imaging has announced the development of the Ricoh GR IV, the latest model in the storied and extremely popular Ricoh GR series of premium compact cameras.
Godox announced its tiniest TTL flash yet, the iT30 Pro. Godox says its new pocket-sized delivers professional-grade results and can work as a flash sender, receiver, or trigger.
OpenAI is targeting AI-powered hardware in a big way. The AI tech company is purchasing io, an AI device startup, for nearly $6.5 billion. The startup was co-founded by veteran Apple designer Jony Ive, who left the company to form a design outfit, LoveFrom, in 2019. It is OpenAI's priciest acquisition yet.
