Influencer Ordered to Pay $20,000 For Refusing to Remove Video of Woman
An influencer has been fined 20,000 Canadian dollars ($14,200) after he repeatedly posted intimate images of a woman he barely knew.
Matt Growcoot spent ten years as a news photographer in the UK, carrying out assignments for the Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, and many others. Aside from shooting breaking news and Premier League soccer, he began to write as well, getting bylines as well as photo credits. Matt has since produced photography-focused books for Penguin Random House and dabbled with video too, with his story-led camera work seen on the BBC, ABC, and NHK.
An influencer has been fined 20,000 Canadian dollars ($14,200) after he repeatedly posted intimate images of a woman he barely knew.
Photographer Alan Schaller's first book, Metropolis, explored the isolation of living in the big city, a somber subject. His second book, however, should bring out a few more smiles.
If you're a pigeon, there is one bird you really want to avoid: falcons. Why? Because an urban falcon's diet almost entirely consists of pigeons.
Elon Musk's startup xAI is suing a man for allegedly misusing the company's AI image generator Grok to create child sexual abuse material.
Watching The Odyssey in Christopher Nolan's preferred 70mm format is not accessible for everyone -- there are only 41 theaters in the entire world that will show the large-format film projection.
For years, internet users navigating to images.google.com have been greeted by a mostly blank screen with a search bar in the middle -- that will soon no longer be the case.
George Lucas, who is one of the most influential people in modern filmmaking but hasn't made a movie in some years now, says that artificial intelligence makes it easier to create cinema.
The mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, has announced a new "Click to Cancel" rule, a first-of-its-kind initiative in the U.S. that is aimed at helping consumers cancel subscriptions much more easily.
A photography competition has put out an open invitation for photographers across the world to submit their images that depict how health is experienced, represented, and understood.
An incredible video of a well-known puma moving through a crowd of photographers as she stalked her prey in Torres del Paine National Park in Chile prompted criticism online -- but the photographers have defended themselves.
Last week, Meta announced it will disable the camera on its smart glasses if it detects a user concealing the LED recording light -- in what was a clear response to criticism of the wearable tech.
Director Christopher Nolan has shed more light on what it was like shooting the first-ever feature film entirely on 70mm IMAX cameras.
NASA photographer Jim Ross recently flew over Washington, D.C. while seated in an F-18 aircraft and took photos of the capital on America's 250th birthday.
Patreon has announced a new update that blocks AI crawlers from hoovering up content on the platform for training purposes. CEO Jack Conte took to Instagram last week to announce he has a "kickass product update for you all."
After a reptile breeding facility in the Chinese province of Guangxi was swept away by floodwaters triggered by typhoon Maysak, hair-raising videos of snakes have surfaced across social media.
Most folks have likely seen the shocking images of Carl McDaniel being tossed eight feet into the air by a rampaging bison in Yellowstone National Park.
A photographer who took an epic trip starting from the southern tip of Europe all the way to northern Germany visited 10 cities and created 10 mesmerizing timelapses.
Earlier this week, PetaPixel reported on an iPhone 16 Pro slipping into the Mediterranean Sea, filming fish, and ultimately its rescue. And now another similar case has emerged, but this time an iPhone 17 Pro Max fell into the Atlantic Ocean, where it lay for two and a half hours before being rescued by a diver.
The IMAX large-format film camera is like no other. And even for Hollywood stars, working with the enormous 70mm camera is a disorienting experience. As actor Tom Holland found out on his first day on set for The Odyssey.
Sajad Imanian's Instagram page is full of photos showing the 26-year-old Iranian smiling with his camera at the Paris Olympics, the AFC Women's Asian Cup, or joking around with soccer manager Jürgen Klopp.
Is the Taylor Swift wedding a major turning point? No, I'm not talking about what it means for Miss Americana and her NFL husband -- I'm talking about how quickly fake photos from the event last weekend are being refuted.
The British underworld was once famous for eccentricity, heists, and horrific violence. The Kray twins from the East End of London are arguably the most famous gangsters to ever emerge from the city; it's a scene that is notoriously difficult to photograph.
Disney's live-action remake of Moana is set to be released in theaters tomorrow, and all is not well: box office sales are projected to be weak and critics are asking why this film, starring Dwayne Johnson, is even being made in the first place. But the first movie called Moana was shot all the way back in 1926 and far from being a live-action remake, it was the very first film to be labeled a documentary.
Researchers spent 35 days exploring a remote, mountainous stretch of the Atlantic Ocean where tectonic fractures constantly reshape the seafloor and bizarre animals thrive.
Much has been written about The Odyssey ; the first film in history to be shot entirely on the ultra-large-format IMAX system. However, it was only possible after IMAX released a new generation of cameras.
Meta's Superintelligence Labs division has launched its first image model, which is rolling out across Instagram, WhatsApp, and the Meta AI app.
If film photography is a niche, then 110 film is a niche within a niche. The cartridge-based film format has been exclusively available from Lomography for the last 15 years, but Reflx Lab has just doubled the number of companies photographers can buy 110 from.
Meta is listening to the criticism of its smart glasses and says it will disable the camera if the user attempts to conceal the blinking LED light that indicates the device is recording.
A woman on holiday in Greece has handed Apple a remarkable advertisement after her iPhone 16 Pro fell into the sea for 11 minutes and kept recording until it was fished out by a diver.
The winners of the second International Aerial Photographer of the Year have been revealed, and Azim Khan Ronnie from Bangladesh has been crowned champion.
A camera trap survey led by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in remote parts of China has shed light on the elusive snow leopard.
King Henry VII infamously employed a Groom of the Stool, Queen Victoria hired a bagpipe player to perform each morning beneath her royal window, and now King Charles III is searching for a creator to shoot sizzle content.
The Japanese space agency has captured a remarkable image of a double-headed asteroid some 62 million miles (100 million kilometers) from Earth.
The AI image generator Midjourney is determined to force Hollywood to reveal how the movie industry uses AI -- as the company accuses the studios of hypocrisy.
A filmmaker has created a beautiful timelapse from photos taken by astronauts onboard the International Space Station.
Photos are the lifeblood of influencer couples, so disagreements over getting the perfect shot are hardly unusual. But one couple took that argument to an extraordinary place: hundreds of feet in the air while dangling from a building.
Jeff Dworsky dropped out of school at 14, bought a Leica at 15, and moved to a small island in Maine at 16 to become a fisherman.
A New Jersey middle school has recalled its yearbook after a photo of Adolf Hitler snuck into the student baby photos section.
Perhaps no photographer in the world gets their work critiqued quite like Annie Leibovitz, and yesterday's Instagram post showing images from her latest exhibition was no exception.
Today is Canada Day. 159 years ago, the modern-day provinces of Ontario, Quebec, as well as Nova Scotia and New Brunswick formed a single political entity called the Dominion of Canada.
Backrooms has been a box office smash this summer, grossing over $330 million worldwide. The horror flick, with firm roots in creepypasta internet lore, began with a single photograph taken on a Sony Cyber-shot camera in 2002.
Just a couple of years ago, spotting an AI-generated face was easy; you just had to look for an obvious deformity. But in 2026, the machines have gotten better.
Instagram nowadays is a kaleidoscope of features and tools, many of them taken from rival platforms that Meta was keen to see off.
A travel influencer recently took a fascinating look around a gigantic camera market in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi.
The Pennsylvania Attorney General has announced a lawsuit against a wedding photographer for allegedly ripping off customers to the tune of $75,000.
Manas National Park is a magical location situated in the foothills of the Himalaya in Northeast India, where photographer Matan Sharon recently spent time documenting a rare black leopard family raising cubs.
A photographer has spent the best part of a decade documenting the War on Drugs -- looking at where cocaine comes from and where it ends up.
A Game Boy enthusiast recently took his classic 1998 console to Mount Wilson Observatory in Los Angeles and attached it to an enormous 60-inch telescope.
Authorities in California are seeking to stop people from taking photos of Bixby Bridge on Big Sur by erecting no-parking signs near the famous spot.
A video is going viral today after a woman filmed herself bravely standing up to a grizzly bear as it took a sinister interest in her dog.