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Pesala Bandara is an award-winning journalist and writer whose stories have graced the front pages of newspapers and magazines. Her work has appeared in The Daily Mail, The Times of London, and The New York Post. Aside from journalism, Pesala has also produced a number of editorial videos which have featured on the BBC, E! Network, and NBC, as well as created a YouTube channel with over 14 million views. Pesala has also edited books for Harper Collins.
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.
A photographer uncovered a trove of forgotten 19th-century photographs of Japan in her family home and used them as inspiration for a series of modern portraits in a fascinating new book.
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.
A music photographer has sued an artist for turning his photo of British rock group Oasis into a painting, which sold for almost $2 million.
Photographer Linda McCartney will be honored by the United States Postal Service (USPS) with a series of postage stamps featuring her nature and still life photography.
The UK’s rarest bird of prey has successfully bred in a secret location for a second consecutive year to keep wildlife photographers away.
Elon Musk’s xAI is suing a prominent Arkansas photographer accused of using Grok to turn photographs of his minor clients into sexually explicit images -- arguing that he is responsible for the resulting material.
Jay Maisel, the influential American photographer who was the subject of the 2018 documentary Jay Myself, has passed away.
A film lab and camera store was burglarized overnight, with surveillance footage showing two people using garbage cans to smash their way into the store before filling them with stolen camera equipment.
A new exhibition chronicles photographs showing a century-long history of U.S. enforcement campaigns that targeted Mexican immigrants and American citizens alike.
The cinematographer behind the acclaimed horror-comedy TV show Widow’s Bay has revealed how he created the series’ distinctive cinematic look.
A remarkable exhibition brings together a late Magnum photographer's images of all 42 Anglican cathedrals in England, capturing their vast, often little-seen interiors entirely in natural light.
A permanent mural is being planned in tribute to the late photographer Martin Parr at the iconic location where he created his acclaimed series The Last Resort.
For the first time ever, researchers have estimated the wolf population in Michigan using remote cameras.
A sports photographer has been arrested for allegedly scamming 130 families out of their money -- with police unable to locate any of the photos she took or even her camera gear after a year-long investigation.
A local photographer who was well-known in Memphis, Tennessee was killed in a high-speed police chase.
An engineer is facing 10 years in prison for using an Insta360 X4 Air camera hidden in a bag of snacks to steal trade secrets and pass them on to his next employer.
Meta will head to court on Tuesday for a potentially landmark child-safety trial that could have enormous financial and operational consequences for the tech giant -- with four states seeking up to $1.4 trillion in penalties and sweeping changes to Facebook and Instagram.
An Iranian photographer explores how women have used dance as resistance in the social and political history of her native country.
A new exhibition explores how 20th-century Mexican photography was shaped by a rich network of artistic connections and cultural exchanges.
Researchers have captured the first-ever footage of dolphins using seashells to catch fish, with evidence suggesting that calves may learn the technique from their mothers.
More than a fifth of people leave their phone or camera unattended in a public place, with people aged 45 to 60 (Gen X) most likely to do so.
A wedding photographer’s lawsuit against police claiming that they falsely arrested her for stealing the maid of honor’s wallet -- in a case that she says damaged her professional reputation -- is moving forward.
A sports photographer had his Instagram account permanently disabled after Meta mistakenly claimed his content violated its rules against the “sexualization of children.”
A 20-year-old tourist plunged to his death while trying to do a photo shoot at the top of a waterfall in a U.S. state park.
Two female photographers, including a prominent photojournalist and an 18-year-old artist, have been sentenced to a combined 24 years in prison in Iran.
Pioneering San Francisco photo gallery SF Camerawork -- which has exhibited work by influential photographers such as Sally Mann and Robert Mapplethorpe -- is closing after 52 years.
A trail camera has captured a striking image of a rare Eurasian lynx moving across the high-altitude Himalayas - marking the first confirmed photographic record of the species in Sikkim, India.
Legendary surf photographer Hank Foto, one of the most recognizable lensman to work for Surfing Magazine, has died.
Police are searching for a suspect after camera gear was stolen from a TV crew filming on a popular beach in the U.K.
The first photos of the impact crater left on the Moon after an out-of-control SpaceX spacecraft crashed into its surface last week have emerged.
A New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay $567 million over harms to young people linked to its platforms -- in what is the largest fine against Instagram and Facebook’s parent company over child safety.
Chinese-made surveillance drones used by the U.K.'s elite special forces were found to have cameras that secretly sent data to China.
A new exhibition examines how more than 80 years of documentary photography has captured the darker, more unsettling side of life in Britain and Ireland.
An extraordinary picture collection spanning 100 works by photographers including Diane Arbus, Dorothea Lange, Richard Avedon, Nan Goldin, and Edward Steichen will be on view at museums across the United States.
Camera traps have captured the first wild baby pine martens to be born in southwest England for over 100 years.
A NASA satellite has captured a striking image of a fractured Antarctic landscape that appears to resemble a hummingbird.