
New Initiative Aims to Change the Lack of Diversity in Skincare Imagery
A recent campaign partnership between Vaseline and VisualDx aims to set a new standard for diversity in skincare.
A recent campaign partnership between Vaseline and VisualDx aims to set a new standard for diversity in skincare.
Creating an evenly lit background can be trickier than one would think, but is a skill that every photographer should master. But with the right equipment and knowledge, it gets much easier to capture a pure white, black, or colored gradient background in-camera without the need for heavy Photoshop cleanup in post.
Regis and Kahran Bethencourt of Creative Soul Photography have shot a series celebrating the history of Black hairstyles from the end of the 19th century to the present... and even predicting the future.
Kodak has announced that due to a supply shortage of tin-free steel (TFS) it is temporarily replacing all the end caps on its 135 format film canisters. The canisters will begin shipping from Kodak's Colorado facility over the next couple of weeks.
What kind of photos do you get if you shoot with a backdrop made with one of the blackest materials available to the public? Photographer Mathieu Stern recently decided to find out, and he documented his experiment in the 5-minute video above.
Unstable. Criminal. Impoverished. Absentee fathers. Neglectful mothers. “A tangle of pathology,” as the Moynihan Report, a 1965 study on Black poverty, put it. For decades, the Black family has been denigrated as dysfunctional.
Frederick Douglass is perhaps best known as an abolitionist and intellectual. But he was also the most photographed American of the 19th century. And he encouraged the use of photography to promote social change for Black equality.
Just Pictures was definitely more than Just Pictures. All of the photographers were artists of color, and most of the subjects were Black.
African-American Princesses Series is a beautiful portrait project that reimagines the traditional fairy tale princess as young Black girls with their own dash of style and culture.
In the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd and the world-wide reckoning with systemic racism that his death inspired, the photo industry has been taking a long hard look at its own issues with diversity and inclusion. Black Women Photographers—a new global community and database of Black women creatives—is both the result of, and an answer to, this long-overdue soul-searching.
Fashion magazine Vogue has come under fire over the cover of its August issue. The magazine featured world-renowned gymnast Simone Biles, and critics are upset at both the style of the images and the fact that Biles was photographed by Annie Leibovitz and not a Black photographer.
For the first time in the 125-year history of the iconic fashion and lifestyle magazine Vogue, a black photographer will be behind the photo that graces the cover, according to a new report.
GoPro has just announced the HERO6 Black. The new action camera offers 4K video resolution at 60fps, as well as 2.7K at 120fps and Full HD 1080p video at 240fps -- perfect for high-resolution slow-motion video clips.
Here's a 2-minute video that offers a look at how the HBO series 'Insecure' makes its black actors look so good on camera. What is it that makes everyone "pop" so much on screen?
Liberia-born and Los Angeles-based fashion model Deddeh Howard wants to promote more racial diversity in fashion advertising. For her new photo project, titled Black Mirror, Howard faithfully recreated major ad photos from top brands with herself as the model.
Fujifilm's Instax film lineup is about to get more colorful. The company has announced that it will soon be launching new Black and Sky Blue film packs to give instant photographers more options for border color.
When the darkest material on Earth was announced back in 2014, photographers suggested that it could be used for everything from the ultimate non-reflective black backdrop to an art gallery in which the photos "pop." Well, that darkest material just got even darker.
Back in May, Google announced "JUMP", a new technology standard aimed at creating fully immersive content for virtual reality. At the time, Google showed off a demo camera rig that utilized over 16 separate GoPros. The folks over at GoPro have finally decided to release a production version of the apparatus that'll be available for purchase. Called the Odyssey panoramic capture rig, it features 16 synchronized GoPro HERO4 Black cameras recording 8K video at 30fps.
Flickr sparked some controversy back in May after it was discovered that the service's new autotagging feature was prone to mislabeling black people as "apes." It looks like Google Photos developers didn't learn from Flickr's embarrassing misstep: a Google developer is apologizing after it was found that Google's Photos app misidentifies photos of black people as "gorillas."
One of the most important aspects of fine art macro photography is capturing a non-distracting background so your subject stands out. I tend to like clean and colorful backgrounds, but there are situations where dark backgrounds may be desirable. This article will showcase one method of how to capture black backgrounds in macro photography. We’ll take a look at using flash falloff.