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A camera that contains radioactive material has gone "missing" from a Houston, Texas facility. It was reported missing on Thursday and as of this weekend remained unfound.

Photography is a powerful tool in storytelling and scientific communication. But it can also cause harm when used unethically.

An app says it will be able to measure a person's heart rate, blood pressure, stress, depression, and blood sugar levels with just a selfie.

Documentary photographer Francois Nadeau lives in Beijing, China, and has to have a COVID test almost every 48 hours. This gave him an idea for a project.

Photographer and digital artist Rubén Álvarez shot a series of handcrafted cells to represent the process of blood cell formation, taking inspiration from his fight against salivary gland tumors and facial paralysis.

Photographer Angelica Edwards took on the emotionally difficult task of documenting the final two years of a woman's losing battle with stage four breast cancer.

The next time you find yourself wanting to take a selfie with a gorilla, you may want to think twice: a new research study has found that tourists who try to take pictures with wild mountain gorillas could be putting the animals in danger of getting COVID-19 and other diseases.

COVID-19 has brought unprecedented challenges to many areas of the economy in the past few months. As we emerge from lockdown situations, businesses will continue to have a need for fresh commercial photography, whether it is for new marketing efforts, making portraits of new faces as leadership and staff undergo changes, documenting new facilities and infrastructure projects, or communicating with stakeholders about a company’s efforts to keep workers safe and healthy during this ongoing crisis.

As the world takes drastic measures to slow the spread of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, having good hand hygiene is regarded as one of the key ways to protect yourself and your loved ones. If you're a photographer, you should consider regularly disinfecting the equipment you use throughout a day.

Fortunately, we are beginning to find ourselves in a world where it's okay to open up a little more about mental health. It’s great! It’s the age of empathy and humility now, and I think once we begin to empathize properly with each other, we’ll be in a much better place. We’ve all got the same prehistoric brain, and it’s surprising how you can begin to essentially ‘re-program’ your thoughts.

CVS has just announced that it is banning Photoshopping of its beauty images. More specifically, the pharmacy chain will stop retouching in ways that "materially alter" the subjects in photos.

For the first time in decades, The New York Times was published this past Sunday without any photos by renowned fashion photographer Bill Cunningham. The omission in the Sunday Styles section was because the 87-year-old photographer recently suffered a stroke and is currently in the hospital recovering.

As a chiropractor, I’m always looking for improved biomechanics that reduce injury and fatigue. Proper camera technique increases stability, improves capture quality and protects your joints from repetitive microtrauma.

A new ad campaign in the UK is using interactive posters to inform parents that they can easily check their child for eye cancer using flash photography.

As photographers, writers, illustrators, actors, musicians... As creatives, we create the world that we exist in, we create the world that the rest of the world sees.

This is a gift, it is our gift and it is the soul of the saying that we “are gifted.” While many are brought up to view doctors and lawyers as having greater intellectual prowess, the truth of the matter is that it takes a VERY strong mind to visualize and then create our art.

But what happens when that mind turns against us?

If you're worried that spending hours upon hours staring at a computer post-processing thousands of photos will damage your eyeballs, rest assured: it won't. And the video above by the folks at DNews explains why that is.

Let's not kid ourselves, when it comes to health insurance, freelance photographers are in an unfortunate situation. Despite working long hours like everyone else and managing their own business, freelance photographers don't get the same group rates that regular employees do. There is no question that buying insurance as an individual is more expensive.

Are you the once-proud owner of a Canon Rebel T4i DSLR? Has your camera's grip changed from black to white? Have you developed a rash from touching the white grip? Apparently there's at least one of you out there, because Canon has issued a voluntary recall on nearly 68,200 of its T4i DSLRs. As we first reported last month, some of the DSLRs were loaded with too much "rubber accelerator", which can lead to a chemical reaction that causes allergic reactions.

The company issued an advisory at the time and offered free repairs, but is now cooperating with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in issuing the recall -- despite the fact that it has only received a single report of a "minor rash".

Image sensors and the advent of digital imaging have been met with differing reactions from the photographical community. But what a team of doctors at the Oxford Eye Hospital have managed to do with the technology is 100% digital, and 100% amazing. Clinical trial leaders Robert MacLaren and Tim Jackson have helped two blind men to partially see again.

While a number of countries are taking steps to ban the unrealistic Photoshopping of models, Israel has …

KEH has published a helpful primer on memory cards that describes the different …

The Eatery is a new "photo sharing" app that's focused more on health than photography. Instead of being judged on aesthetics photographs are rated based on whether people think the food is healthy or not. Your "photo habits" are also crunched and turned into useful infographics and statistics about how and when you eat, giving you helpful information that you can use to change your eating habits.

A neat way to reuse film canisters is to poke holes in the lids and turn them into salt …

Mother Jones reports that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is cracking down on …

It’s estimated that 8 million people in the US struggle with an eating …