Clancy Gebler Davies had an award-winning photo withdrawn from an international show after a fellow photographer claimed her winning entry was ineligible because he had taken the picture.
Founded in 1854, the British Journal of Photography is one of the world's oldest and most influential photography magazines. The 162-year-old publication was sold back in 2013, and now it's raising money through a crowdfunding campaign. Put in some money, and in exchange you get ownership shares in the magazine.
Fujifilm produced medium format cameras back in the heyday of film, but the company has focused on smaller formats ever since digital photography burst onto the scene. It's not ruling out a return to the medium format market -- in fact, Fuji says it's actively researching and testing medium format sensors.
Those who see iPhoneography as some kind of barbarian invasion may want to give their DSLRs an extra hug after hearing this: The venerable British Journal of Photography has launched a new e-magazine all about smartphone photography and available only as an iPhone app.
Is there or isn't there a new line of compact system cameras (CSC) up Leica's sleeve? Well, it depends on who you ask.
Editors have always been wary of sending photographers into war zones since the practice began in the early 20th …
If you keep up with the world of photography, chances are you have at one point or another read The British Journal of Photography; if it's one of your main reads you may even have their popular iPad app. And now you've been given a smaller, more portable option, because the magazine has officially released its first iPhone app, an app that the creators say will "change your expectations about how a magazine should look on an iPhone."
Last month there was quite a bit of buzz among photographers when photographer …
The British Journal of Photography is reporting today that Geoffrey Crawley -- the world-renowned photographer who debunked the Cottingley Fairies hoax in the 1980's -- has died. The hoax began in 1917 when two cousins named Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths (aged 16 and 10, respectively) claimed to have discovered fairies and, after borrowing a camera, produced photos to prove it. The controversial photographs captured the world's attention for decades and even deceived Sir Arthur Conan Doyle before finally being debunked by Crawley in a series of articles published in the early '80s. In 1983 the cousins admitted that the photos were faked using cardboard cutouts.
It's interesting seeing how little it took to fool people with photographs in the early days of photography.
A couple days ago we covered the winning image of the British Journal of Photography's international photo contest and how many readers disagreed with the photo's merits. The prize for that contest was a one week exhibition and a Sigma digital compact camera. Now compare that to the above photograph, which won AU $80,000 in the 2010 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize, one of the richest prizes in the world. Like the BJP photo, this photograph became the subject of debate.
The British Journal of Photography announced recently that South African photographer Michelle Sank's image "Man asleep on the Golden Mile, Durban, South Africa." had won the single image category of its International Photography Award.
The image, which shows a man asleep in a park just off the Golden Mile in Durban, was described by judges Nick Galvin, Bruno Ceschel and Diane Smyth as both surreal and disturbing, and was picked out from 338 other entries because of its quiet, enduring intensity. "The more I look at it, the more powerful it becomes," commented Galvin, who manages the archive at Magnum London.
The Impossible Project’s new instant film for Polaroid cameras will go …