Matt Growcoot

Senior News Editor

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.

Articles by Matt Growcoot

A man wearing a cap stands on a city street beside a large camera on a tripod. Next to him are two black-and-white photographic negatives, one showing the Eiffel Tower. A supermarket is visible in the background.

Photographer Makes Pinhole Camera Out of Chinese Roast Duck

You can make a pinhole camera out of just about anything -- as an Italian photographer recently proved by building one from pasta. Continuing that playful nod to culinary heritage via the medium of photography, Martin Cheung has been creating images with a Chinese roast duck as his camera.

A bear and a duck, both dressed in worn clothing, sit across from each other at a table in a dim, industrial dining room, eating a meal with scraps of food on their plates.

AI Film is Pulled From Theaters Following Backlash

After winning the inaugural Frame Forward AI Animated Film Festival, Igor Alferov expected his short, Thanksgiving Day, to be the first AI-generated film to run nationwide as part of his prize -- but that's now how it turned out.

A motion-blurred image of a wolf running across colorful horizontal lines, resembling a finish line photo from a race, with the Omega logo at the bottom.

Dog Triggers Photo Finish at Winter Olympics

Omega is responsible for the official timing of the Winter Olympics, including monitoring the finish line when athletes cross it within fractions of a second of one another. Today at the Games, however, it was a dog named Nazgul who triggered the cameras.