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A previously unknown species of plant was accidentally discovered after a tourist posted her photograph online.

A photographer has been sentenced to five years in federal prison after scamming a family out of $4.6 million and spending $200,000 of the money on Taylor Swift concert tickets.

An American CEO, who posted an AI-edited photo of herself and three family members wearing “Lake America” sweatshirts while on a trip to Canada, is no longer a CEO.

Major photo agencies and newspapers are temporarily withholding photographs of President Donald Trump’s events in solidarity with news organizations barred from the White House.

Police are hunting for two female suspects after $10,000 worth of professional camera gear was stolen from a high-end fashion event in the Hamptons.

Police across the U.K. are warning parents about the dangers of urban exploration photography as more children enter abandoned buildings in hopes of going viral on social media.

Rodney Charters, the cinematographer who shot nearly every episode of the first eight seasons of the hit TV show 24, has died at 80.

A photographer captured the moment lightning struck a mountain -- unaware that the powerful storm had just claimed the life of a 19-year-old hiker nearby.

An American CEO was forced to cut her trip to Canada short after posting an AI-edited photo of herself and three family members wearing “Lake America” sweatshirts that went viral and sparked an uproar.

Apple has reportedly placed tiny “Hello” signs in its stores worldwide as a camera test for the new iPhone 18 Pro.

A photo exhibition imagines the life Emmett Till might have lived if he had not been murdered more than 70 years ago.

An image that was heavily edited with AI has controversially won a state fair photography competition, prompting organizers to change the rules for next year.

A nature photographer filmed the extraordinary moment he had to hide behind a rock when a huge herd of 400 wild reindeer came charging toward him.

The British Museum has reversed its policy on allowing photography of the Bayeux Tapestry, banning visitors from taking photos of the nearly 1,000-year-old work less than a week after it went on display in the U.K. for the first time.

Researchers captured footage of a female humpback whale mourning her dead newborn calf, in what a new study describes as a first-of-its-kind behavior.

An archive of more than one million photos and videos found at the home of an erotic photographer, who passed away last year, has connected him to seven missing women -- five of whom police believe are dead.

Aerial photographer and reporter Eliana Moreno has been named among three people killed after an NBC Los Angeles helicopter crashed in the city’s suburbs.

A trail camera has captured a tiny wallaby known as as "Narbalek" in a remote part of Western Australia where the species had not been detected for more than 50 years.

Apple and Google will be legally required to block explicit and nude photos on children’s smartphones in the U.K. under what is believed to be the world’s first legislation of its kind.

A journalist's camera was stolen from under his feet at a pub in central London, but the police made a huge blunder that cost him his chance to find it.

A former inmate has filed a lawsuit accusing correctional officers of digitally altering his prison photograph to make him appear wearing a stereotypical Native American headdress and clothing.

A 70-year-old hiker who had been missing for a week on a remote Michigan island after being spotted on a trail camera.

A new book explores the images groundbreaking fashion photographer Frank Horvat took in India and Pakistan early in his career, and how the experience shaped his work.

A photographer took thousands of incredible images of pivotal moments in postwar Europe and mid-century America with a Leica camera taken from a captured German soldier -- which were only discovered by his family after his death.

The Australian government plans to introduce another world-first social media law by allowing people the choice to opt out of content recommended by algorithms.

Police forces across the U.S. are concerned that Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record inside jails and police facilities and potentially aid acts of terrorism.

Remarkable photographs show an octopus seemingly "riding" a dolphin in the waters off the South West coast of the U.K.

A lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) over drones photographing people’s homes without warrants has forced a California county to overhaul how it conducts aerial surveillance.

A year-long camera trap survey in Tanzania has captured 150,000 images of endangered and elusive animals, including a rare type of African wild cat recorded in the country for the first time.

A photographer whose fascinating images of everyday life in California -- taken from behind the wheel of his car on his daily drive to work -- are the focus of a new exhibition.

David Bowie’s official photographer has transformed his vast archive of images of the legendary singer into an immersive audio-visual experience.

Researchers have developed a $7 smartphone accessory that can detect hidden cameras within five seconds with 94% accuracy.

A photographer accused Getty Images of illegally licensing his photographs, only to learn that he never owned the copyrights to them.

A team of scientists filmed a shrimp-like fish walking both sideways and backward in first-ever footage of such behavior in a fish.

A court has ordered a sports photography festival to reinstate an Associated Press photographer’s image of a soccer game in Gaza after organizers removed it following outside pressure.

Technology company Dyson has launched an electric toothbrush that uses a built-in camera to help clean between the teeth.

Jean-François Leroy, the photographer who founded Visa pour l’Image, the world’s leading photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France, has died.

Uber is introducing a feature that lets parents watch live video from drivers’ selfie cameras during their teenagers’ rides.

A new book highlights the extraordinary work of over 60 women photographers from the 19th century to the present day.

The U.K. government has published a "misleading" booklet that suggested people "could be arrested" if they photograph people in public.

Researchers left a trail camera in an abandoned house and captured an extraordinary record of never-before-seen interactions between different species of birds of prey.

An image taken by a Palestinian photographer of a soccer game in Gaza was removed from a sports photography festival following requests from outside sources -- with organizers saying they did not want to “offend” anyone.

New satellite images show an ice island about the size of Manhattan breaking away from a Greenland glacier, marking the largest loss of floating ice there in over 10 years.

A remote camera has captured dramatic images of a bobcat viciously attacking the world's largest rattlesnake species in Florida -- a type of encounter that is rarely documented in the wild.

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri denied that the platform concealed information about the low use its teen safety feature "Take a Break" in a landmark child-safety trial that could have significant consequences for Meta.

A tourist has been sentenced to one year in jail over a video he filmed on Indonesia's "Day of Silence" while on vacation in Bali.