As I walked out towards one of Bali’s most famous beaches, I could not believe what I was seeing. As far as the eye could see was plastic. Waves and waves of plastic, ankle-deep, covering the beach.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is set to receive over 6,500 historical and contemporary photography works from world-renowned collector Artur Walther and the Walther Family Foundation.
The 2025 Environmental Photography Awards gallery winners are a collection of inspirational to downright heart-wrenching photos that show just how powerful photographers can be.
Glass Imaging, a technology company developing groundbreaking artificial intelligence to improve digital image quality, unveiled a $20 million Series A funding round this week led by Insight Partners. The new Series A funding round is in addition to a previous funding round led by Google Ventures, Future Ventures, and Abstract Ventures.
Earlier this week, Photo Rumors (which did not cite a source) reported that a long list of Sony camera products will see a price increase on Monday, May 19. Sony has declined to confirm or deny the claims to PetaPixel.
The China International Photographic Equipment and Electrical Imaging Machinery and Technology Fair (China P&E) started today in Beijing with a number of companies on-site to announce and tease their latest gear. Here are some of the highlights so far.
Scientists have developed an AI tool that can look at an ordinary photograph and estimate how fast a body is aging -- an insight that could change the nature of cancer care.
Photo London is marking its 10th anniversary this week by celebrating the English capital and its rich traditions of photography.
Thanks to the rapidly changing tariff situation in the United States, American photographers are dealing with pricing whiplash. Less than two weeks after hiking prices by as much as 90%, Leica has announced price reductions for some products because of the 90-day trade truce between the U.S. and China.
Earlier this week, DJI announced its new Mavic 4 Pro, a professional-level drone that, while largely an iterative update over the 3 Pro, is easily the best in its class. However, turbulent economic and market conditions made for a rocky launch -- and that included sending incorrect pricing information to the media.
Viltrox teased three new lenses coming in the near future: the 85mm f/1.4 Pro, the 50mm f/1.4 Pro, and the 56mm f/1.2 Pro. The first two lenses will be available for Sony E-mount, while the third lens will be released for Fujifilm X-mount.
True Lens Services (TLS), a U.K.-based cinema lens manufacturer, has announced that it is rehousing the legendary Zeiss Standard Speed lenses.
A series of inventive spy cameras used by the KGB during the Cold War are set to be auctioned next month at the Leitz Photographica Auction in Germany.
Filmmakers have re-edited the new Superman trailer to remove a blink that showed the hero reacting to a thrown can -- after fans complained that DC's Man of Steel would never flinch at such a minor impact.
Nikon's latest financial results outline a significant drop in operating profit year-over-year, due mainly to significant one-time costs. The company also says that tariffs could reduce its profit for the current fiscal year by nearly $70 million.
A photographer has been convicted of sexually inappropriate conduct for kissing a six-year-old girl on the cheek during a kindergarten graduation photo shoot so he could get a smile out of her for a picture.
Cosina Voigtlander has announced the Portrait Heliar 75mm f/1.8. It is the company's first lens with controllable spherical aberration, allowing photographers to have direct influence over the lens's bokeh.
Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film The Odyssey is set to make cinematic history as the first major Hollywood feature to be shot entirely using IMAX film cameras.
World Press Photo has suspended Nick Ut's authorship of Napalm Girl after a documentary claimed that he did not take the famous photo.
In a new behind-the-scenes video from the filming of Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning, viewers can watch Tom Cruise perform a death-defying stunt while jumping out of a helicopter with a POV camera rig attached.
A group of Galapagos Whaler sharks attacked a camera in the Coral Sea, Australia, this week, with the incident captured on an underwater 360 camera.
Swiss outdoor brand Mammut is hosting a global photo contest that includes a companion scavenger hunt designed for nature enthusiasts.
SSDs continue to get faster, but the bottleneck for performance usually comes down to connectivity. It doesn't matter how fast your drive can write if the cable can't push data through to match. With Thunderbolt 5, though, that throughput has been jacked up, and OWC's new Envoy Ultra SSD shows that for those who need pure speed, there is an option.
The Disability Collection, an initiative led by Getty Images in partnership with Verizon Media and the National Disability Leadership Alliance announced that a total of $20,000 in grants has been awarded to two photographers and a cinematographer championing disability representation.
Chinese lens maker Blazar's latest anamorphic lens series is highly unusual. The Blazar Beetle 1.33x anamorphic lenses for full-frame cameras feature a rotatable design, supporting distinct horizontal and vertical anamorphic shooting and expanded cropping possibilities.
Clive has been taking photos of people in London for about 65 years. During that time, he has met and photographed many people from all walks of life. A new documentary film by Chocolate Films, as part of the 1000 Londoners series, looks at Clive's career and how his photos paint a detailed portrait of a city and its people changing over the decades.
A speeding duck has set off a traffic camera in the Swiss town of Köniz, mirroring a near-identical incident seven years earlier.
Tom Cruise and the cast of Mission: Impossible defied a long-standing rule at Cannes Film Festival last night by taking selfies on the red carpet -- a form of photography that has been banned for the past seven years.
PetaPixel has been regularly updating its Sample Galleries since it added them as a Membership perk earlier this year. It now includes nine of the latest cameras and eight of the latest lenses, including the new Panasonic Lumix S1 II and S1 IIE that were announced earlier this week.
Jessica Biel accidentally destroyed a camera, costing over $300,000, when she fired an arrow directly into the lens while shooting Blade: Trinity.
