Photo Agencies Publish Open Letter Demanding AI Copyright Protection
The world's leading photo agencies and photographer associations have co-signed an open letter calling for legal protections against artificial intelligence (AI).
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.
The world's leading photo agencies and photographer associations have co-signed an open letter calling for legal protections against artificial intelligence (AI).
A rare set of photographs taken in the immediate aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake are set for auction today in California.
It takes a lot of hard work to become a professional photographer. There are untold hours of toil to perfect the craft and lots of money spent to reach a pro level. So when you get there, how much should you be paid for a day's work?
A viral TikTok video shows huge lines snaking out of a camera store in Brooklyn, New York because of a sale on film cameras.
A photographer has created a stunning four-gigapixel, super-high-resolution photo of a vibrant Rammstein concert featuring 55,000 revelers and three Where's Waldos.
A wedding photographer has taken to Reddit to share a shocking dilemma -- Should they refund the bride after their second shooter allegedly slept with the groom?
A photographer captured three bolts of lightning striking the Chicago skyline simultaneously in one epic photo.
A friend of the photographer who died when he fell off a skyscraper in Hong Kong has claimed that it is impossible he slipped.
A photographer has been left with a broken neck after a freak accident during the motorcycle speedway race he was covering.
A photographer left three cigarettes in a mason jar filled with soil for an entire year -- taking a timelapse video to show what happens to them.
A drone got smacked out of the air by a skier performing an incredible stunt -- sparking a debate on whose fault it was.
A photographer has shone a light on the "underwhelming" pay sometimes offered by huge fashion magazines after revealing she was paid $300 by Vogue for a full day's shoot and edit.
For years, street photographer Irving Greines avoided documenting homeless people feeling that taking photos is intrusive and exploitative. Eventually, though, he felt compelled to document the growing unhoused population.
Brave, a privacy-focused search engine, has incorporated images and videos for the first time but users won't have to worry about being profiled for the pictures they search.
Perched 640 feet up in the air on a line less than one inch wide, Jaan Roose battled high winds to take a slackline world record as photographer Volodya Voronin captured it all in remarkable detail.
A diver swimming off the coast of California has captured rare footage of an orca biting into a whale shark and ripping out its liver.
Tinder is testing an artificial intelligence (AI) feature that looks through a user's photos for the ones that represent them best on their dating profile.
A new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image of the Ring Nebula that boasts an exquisite green looks like a sports stadium lit up at night at first glance.
An Asian MIT student asked an artificial intelligence (AI) to generate a professional headshot but the program turned her white -- underlining biases inherent within AI.
The first photo of the Chernobyl disaster taken 14 hours after the nuclear catastrophe went viral yesterday along with the fascinating story behind it.
Inmates at San Quentin prison are being given the opportunity to learn film production in a scheme backed by Hollywood.
Intel has shown off a new program that detects deepfakes by analyzing the person's blood flow. Called FakeCatcher, a BBC journalist went along to Intel to find out how it works and if it is accurate.
A photographer has captured Americans living their life in vehicles out on the road. Known as "workampers", many of them are following their own version of the American Dream.
A real estate agent from Canada has been fined $15,000 after a surveillance camera caught him drinking milk that belonged to the homeowner.
A bride has taken to TikTok to slam her wedding photographer whom she allegedly paid $3,000 for what she calls "the worst wedding photos on the internet."
Pigeons are everywhere in the world, but the common birds are often looked down upon and dubbed "flying rats." However, one photographer has sought to raise the profile of the lowly pigeon by taking a series of formal portraits in a studio setting.
Photographers have to go above and beyond to get the perfect shot and that sometimes means putting themselves in the line of fire -- like one photographer did while shooting a soccer player for a magazine.
A disgruntled customer has sued Taco Bell after his Mexican Pizza did not look like the one advertised in the company's promotional photos.
A photographer has taken to Reddit to ask if they did the right thing deleting their cousin's wedding photos after their relative refused to pay.
An iconic photo of primatologist Jane Goodall opposite a tiny chimpanzee with an outstretched hand changed the course of science.
French photographer and extreme sports athlete Remi Lucidi has died after falling off the 68th floor of a building in Hong Kong.
A photographer has investigated how light and the weather affects a photo by shooting the same location twice -- once when it's sunny and once when it's cloudy.
A photographer has spent the best part of 20 years traveling the world capturing hundreds of weird sports.
A photo location expert has made a tutorial explaining how to find the exact location of a photo with just a few clues.
Stability AI has announced its new AI image generator Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 which the company describes as its "most advanced" model to date.
NASA is launching its very own on-demand streaming platform. Called NASA+, it will incorporate all of the live broadcasts it already does but will also show original documentaries.
A photographer who zoomed in on an airplane flying overhead couldn't believe his eyes after he saw a bright rainbow contrail coming out of the back of it.
The only confirmed ocelot in Arizona whose nickname is "Lil' Jefe" has been captured on a trail camera in the Huachuca Mountains.
Simpson Kalisher, a well-known New York street photographer, has died at age 96. Kalisher started out in photography when he was just 10 years old.
Images allegedly generated with a brand new version of OpenAI's DALL-E, possibly DALL-E 3, have been leaked online and they are exceptional.
A recent video shared by Red Bull tells the story of the Sony VX1000 and how it became the iconic camera of skateboarding.
A comet in the night sky has unexpectedly brightened 100-fold and grown swept-back horns so it resembles the Millennium Falcon -- the fictional starship from the Star Wars movies.
A photographer captured a series of breathtaking photos during an intense lightning storm before compositing them into one incredible image.
A photographer and artist created a set of "boring" AI images depicting unremarkable scenes that would be "quickly scrolled past on Facebook."
A grizzly bear has been credited as the author of its own selfie after it found a GoPro in a pond, turned it on, and took a video.
A Barbie photographer who creates compelling photos of the iconic doll says that the record-breaking movie has generated a newfound audience.
Couples increasingly want instant images from their wedding photographer so they can update their social media pages immediately after the ceremony.
A photographer has expressed her disgust after a graffiti artist used her photo as the basis of a giant pro-Russia mural in the occupied Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
A photographer is seeking compensation in a court of law after alleging that the cannabis website Leafly used his photos of rappers Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur.
A photographer captured a SpaceX rocket leaving behind an aurora-like red glow after it punched a hole in the ionosphere.