Disturbing Video of Tourist Posing With Tiger in Thailand Exposes Dark Photo Trend
A video on X showing a behind-the-scenes video of a photo shoot at Tiger World Thailand has gone viral and highlighted a serious problem in the country.
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.
A video on X showing a behind-the-scenes video of a photo shoot at Tiger World Thailand has gone viral and highlighted a serious problem in the country.
OpenAI has announced that images generated with ChatGPT, Codex, and its API will include C2PA metadata and a SynthID watermark -- the two leading protocols in identifying AI images.
Analogue Wonderland, a photographic film store based in the U.K., has released a beginner-friendly analog camera called Pure35.
Like all hobbies, photography can have its frustrating moments. And now photographers can take out some of that rage by smashing a camera to pieces with a hammer.
The MUUS Collection has acquired the Todd Webb archive, an American photographer whose images of postwar city life in New York City and Paris serve as visual time capsules to bygone eras. MUUS preserves, researches, and reveals works from the archives in its care.
Shutterstock has agreed to pay the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) $35 million over allegations that the photo agency misled customers and illegally made millions of dollars from them.
A controversial research project led by the University of Washington that would have seen teachers wearing cameras in the classroom has been scrapped after parents expressed outrage.
A burgeoning news website called the South Florida Standard has disappeared off the internet after an investigation uncovered that all of its reporters were AI-generated.
It's an icon of early internet videos: 12 badgers doing calisthenics while a mushroom and snake occasionally appear on screen, known as "Badger Badger Badger" or "The Badger Song."
The court schedule has been set for Nick Ut's defamation lawsuit in France against Netflix and the VII Foundation over claims made in The Stringer documentary.
The camera used to shoot Christopher Nolan's upcoming epic The Odyssey -- the first movie ever to be shot entirely on IMAX cameras -- has gone on public display in Los Angeles.
During the MotoGP race yesterday in Barcelona, a horrific accident occurred when one of the motorcycle riders crashed into the back of another at high speed. In such cases, producers and editors must tread carefully about what they show, and it seems at least one newspaper got it wrong.
Carol Highsmith has been documenting the United States since at least the 1980s. Some 100,000 images of American people and landscapes have been donated to the Library of Congress, where they are available under a Creative Commons license.
Humans have been observing the night sky since the ancient days of Mesopotamia and Babylon, but we're increasingly getting in our own way.
Few people get to see the full splendor of the Milky Way Galaxy arch -- even fewer get to see the summer and winter arms in the same night.
Happy Birthday to David Attenborough. The legendary naturalist turns 100 today. Few people have done more to educate the world about wildlife and conservation.
You know the feeling, you're exploring an alien planet and drill into a rock, but the rock clings onto you and won't let go. You wave your arms around in a desperate bid to shake it off.
A photographer who risked his life during the deadly Bondi Beach shooting in Australia has found that a major national news service is refusing to pay for his images, claiming fair use.
A husband-and-wife team is producing their own 1920s-era film, similar to the one Oskar Barnack used, in the "world's smallest film factory", which they intend to shoot using a 100-year-old Leica camera.
A photographer has revealed the journey he went on to capture an incredible photo of a rare form of lightning sprites.
A photographer who has driven Route 66 over 40 times has had eight of his photos printed on United States Postal Service (USPS) stamps.
The still image is incredibly powerful; photographers know this better than anyone. And even in AI, it is the picture side of the product that is turbo-charging their gigantic businesses, according to a new report.
Giorgia Meloni, the Prime Minister of Italy, has shared an AI-generated photo of herself in a state of undress as a warning about deepfake photos.
The Pitt on HBO Max is about as immersive as a TV show can be. Set in real time, with each episode representing an hour in the hectic lives of staff working at the fictional Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center's emergency room, viewers can get lost in the working (and sometimes personal) lives of Dr. Robby (Noah Wyle) and his crew.
A rare Leica MP owned by Tazio Secchiaroli, credited as being one of Italy's first paparazzi, will go on sale at the Leitz Photographica Auction next month.
Last week, PetaPixel reported that the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix has strict rules on what cameras are allowed in -- so one photographer brought along a tape measure to prove that his gear was eligible for entry.
A life-sized statue of the official photographer for the Manhattan Project has been unveiled in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Luca Lorenz has won the GDT (German Society for Nature Photography) Nature Photographer of the Year 2026 in its annual members' competition for his painterly photo of a mountain hare.
Lucky locals in Indonesia witnessed a colorful iridescent cloud this past weekend, with the footage quickly going viral.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has issued fresh guidance on who or what can win an Oscar, stressing that human creativity must be front and center if a performance or writing is to win one of the coveted awards.
Artemis II was a massive scientific success for NASA, but it was also a victory for photography, as the still images shot by the crew have inspired and awed people all over the world.
The 1994 genocide in Rwanda was one of the most intimate and large-scale acts of violence of the 20th century. In just 100 days, between 800,000 and one million people were killed, mainly Tutsis but also Hutus. Perpetrators were neighbors, teachers, church leaders, even family members, who attacked face-to-face with machetes, clubs, and spears.
They fly above us unseen -- some are taking photos of outer space -- but the intense network of satellites that orbit Earth in perfect coordination could collapse in just a couple of days, according to a new study.
Here's the thing with photography: you can take a mundane photo and think, 'Why did I take that?' But years later, that same photo is a fascinating artifact from a bygone era.
During a Q1 earnings call on Wednesday, Meta revealed it lost 20 million users across its family of apps.
The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the winners of the 16th edition of the Wiki Loves Monuments photo competition -- with three of the top five entries hailing from Iran.
Two young photographers in the U.K. have been allowed to capture the final of a soccer competition after initially being barred because of their age.
Two photographers spent an exhilarating couple of months at a wildlife conservancy in Kenya, capturing photos of lions, leopards, and many other animals in their natural habitat.
Taking good care of camera gear is something constantly playing on a photographer's mind, and the latest protective wraps from Spinn are designed to put minds at ease.
An incredible photo archive showing the sad decline of a long-forgotten town shot by Dorothea Lange and Pirkle Jones has been digitized and uploaded by the University of California (UC).
The year is 1969, legendary rock and roll band The Velvet Underground is playing at a Vietnam War protest in Texas. It sounds like an iconic moment. The only problem? Back then, people didn't care all that much about The Velvet Underground.
Among all the large smartphone manufacturers, Apple has so far been the most cautious in introducing AI-powered photo editing tools -- but perhaps not for much longer.
Formula 1 is rolling back into the United States this weekend and keen photographers attending the Miami Grand Prix might want to read the small print.
It's famous for picturing far-off galaxies, redefining how the public sees the Universe, but as the Hubble Space Telescope turns 36, another satellite has snapped a birthday photo showing Hubble in all its glory.
The winners of the 2026 Environmental Photography Award have been announced, and photographer Britta Jaschinski has been presented with the grand prize for her image, Handprint on Sea Turtle, which also won the “Changemakers” category.
It was supposed to be a night off, an evening of pleasure for the hard-working news photographers of Washington, D.C. But the biggest story of the weekend came to them as a gunman burst into the White House Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD) and opened fire.
A convincing AI-generated image of a runaway wolf in South Korea led to the arrest of a man after it derailed the rescue team searching for the canine.
Canva has apologized after its new tool, Magic Layers, was caught replacing the word "Palestine" with "Ukraine."
Following on from Earth Day (April 22), NASA has publicized a tool that allows people to spell out their name or any word they want using Landsat satellite images.
Lens manufacturer Tokina has pulled the overall winner of its 2025 monthly photo contest after a "violation of the contest rules."