A three-part image: a black cat sits against a black and white background, a volcano erupts at night with glowing lava, and a young girl runs barefoot on a beach carrying a bucket with waves crashing nearby.

16 Award-Winning Photographers Showcase the Power of iPhone

The 2026 iPhone Photography Awards (IPPAWARDS) has announced the winners of its 20th annual competition. This year, thousands of photographers from more than 140 countries showed just how powerful an iPhone can be in the right hands and how great photos don't always require high-end, dedicated camera equipment.

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Fujifilm Celebrates Japan’s Rich Photographic History

Today, many photographers associate Japan's connection to imaging through famous camera companies, like Canon, Fujifilm, Nikon, OM System (Olympus), Panasonic, Sony, and many more. However, Japan's relationship with photography is much older than any of these relatively modern mainstays, going back to the dawn of photography itself in the mid-19th century.

What Photographing Every Texas State Park Taught a Landscape Photographer

The image is split: on the left, a desert landscape with mountains, rocks, and cacti under a colorful sunset sky; on the right, an illuminated path with lanterns leads to a white church at night under swirling star trails.

At 1:45 a.m., photographer Maegan Lanham left camp and drove 54 miles down a backcountry road. She then hiked three and a half miles into a dark canyon, before gaining more than 1,300 feet to reach a ridge she had never stood on, for a sunrise that lasted minutes. She had no guarantee it would be worth the effort. That kind of dedication follows her everywhere, including a goal few photographers would think to chase, let alone finish: photographing every state park in Texas.

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This New $20 35mm Film Camera Embraces a Classic East German Brand

Photographers in 2026 live in the age of reusable film cameras. There is the Pure35 that U.K. retailer Analogue Wonderland launched last month, Lomography's huge array of cameras, and Dubble Film's SHOW camera, to name just a few. Now there's another one on the scene, and it arrives with a legendary name, the Praktica VF212.

This Photographer Got So Tired of Compression He Built a Photo-Sharing Website Without It

A lighthouse with attached buildings stands on rocky cliffs by the ocean under a cloudy sky. In a closer view, people walk near the lighthouse and a red-roofed brick building, with waves crashing on rocks below.

As camera megapixel counts keep rising, the limitations of online photo sharing only become more apparent. Most photographers share photos online via platforms that use heavy-duty compression, making images look noticeably worse. While this isn't always a big deal, it can be, especially when trying to share with clients. To solve this issue, a Japanese developer built HiRezGo, an online sharing service that promises to show photos in full quality.

A dense cluster of bright blue, white, and orange stars against a dark background, resembling a sparkling, glowing patch in space. This image shows a globular star cluster with many stars close together.

Hubble Delivers Beautiful Photo of a Glowing Cosmic Chandelier

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is still going strong and delivering unbelievably beautiful deep-space images. The latest Hubble image shows globular cluster NGC 6723, sometimes called the Chandelier Cluster. This name is well-earned, as it is an extremely dense stellar cluster, each star looking a little light on a giant cosmic chandelier.