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Shipments for digital cameras are at their highest point since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and that boom is being largely driven by China, Sony and Nikon say.

During COVID lockdowns, artists stuck at home were forced to find new ways to exercise their creativity. For one photographer in Detroit, that meant creating a silly paper mache person and putting it at the center of a collaborative project done with other artists.

For photographer Nicoco, what was meant to be a brief photo project of a five-day lockdown in Shanghai quickly became two-month documentation of frustration, sadness, and boredom.

In 2020, wedding photographer Allie Siarto's business saw a steep decline as COVID spread, weddings were downsized or canceled, and demand for her services dried up. In the midst of the downturn and pandemic, she decided to expand into an unexpected new niche: divorce photography.

The US Commerce Department has published a semiconductor supply chain report that projects the worldwide chip shortage will exist well into the last part of 2022, and possibly even 2023, meaning photographers will likely continue seeing shortages in new cameras for many months to come.

Researchers have created a new type of COVID-19 test that transforms an ordinary smartphone camera into a virus detector. The system could one day allow for cheap and accurate at-home COVID testing.

The growth of the digital "selfie" culture has had a devastating effect on local photographers in India, who frequent popular tourist sites and have historically earned a living from offering their services to tourists.

Nikon has announced the winners of its Photo Contest 2020-2021, a competition that has been active for over 50 years. This year's winning image depicts a senior citizen in Iran who was admitted to receive treatment for COVID-19.

Live music and the resumption of public schools have become a flashpoint (1, 2) in the battle about masks and vaccines in the public sector. My son is homeschooled so I cannot speak to that, but I can speak about live music.

A large group of acclaimed international wildlife photographers and emerging talents have joined forces to raise funds for the people and wildlife in Africa who have all been affected by international tourism closure due to COVID-19 through "Prints for Wildlife."

Fujifilm as a company is most widely associated with photography, but the pandemic and the weakening photo industry overall has changed that. Imaging solutions now makes up just 13% of the company's revenue, and the new CEO is investing heavily in pharmaceuticals as the brand continues to pivot.

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.

Well-respected photographer Mark Seliger has released a new book called"The City that Finally Sleeps" which features the jarringly empty and desolate scenes he photographed during the height of the pandemic in New York City.

Canon has upgraded its forecast for the rest of 2021 after it showed camera sales up 34% over the previous year's pandemic-blighted sales cycle. Despite the good news, the company reportedly added that the camera market is reaching the point of saturation.

A U.K.-based photographer has given complete strangers a platform to share their thoughts and emotions regarding the last year with the goal of raising awareness of the pandemic's impact on mental health.

Since February 2020, the entire world has been experiencing what is likely a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. No country was spared, and here at home in the United States, we somehow managed to be one of the most infected countries on the planet. More than a year later, where do we stand?



Ten years ago, I began making a series of images using a nylon bodystocking. The stretchy fabric created a dreamy space around the bodies of the models when they pushed out against it from inside.

Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo-features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy!

As COVID-19 began spreading through the United States in 2020, Chicago Public Schools, like many school systems around the country, decided to have all of its 350,000 students attend class remotely from home. Chicago-based photographer Ludvig Perés picked up his camera and began documenting this radical change to the lives of students, teachers, and their families.

As a photographer, I work from my home base in Istanbul, completing assignments for places like The New York Times. But, just like everywhere else, COVID-19 has put a damper on normal human interactions in Turkey. So, when a photo editor at The New York Times gave me the option of shooting an assignment remotely, I was intrigued.

There have been some dramatic images coming out of the coronavirus battle around the world and stateside as well. However, when a doctor attending on the patients is himself the photographer, there is a greater intimacy level involved as he understands what the caregivers and patients are undergoing.

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc across the economy, and one niche hit particularly hard has been the world of museums, which has seen ticket sales plummet due to lockdowns and people staying away from indoor spaces. Now the largest art museum in the US is facing a massive budget shortfall, and it's looking into selling art to pay bills.

I recently found a very practical solution for diffusing a camera flash. The solution is perhaps the most practical thing available during the COVID-19 pandemic: the spare medical mask that I kept on my bag.

The UK government is reportedly looking into enforcing COVID-19 quarantine by requiring people to shoot and send geotagged selfies at random times of the day.

It almost sounds like a cliché at this point to say it, but 2020 wasn't easy for anyone and the wedding industry was hit particularly hard depending on where in the world you were.

Brzz, bzzzrrr. The rollers on the vintage Polaroid developer start to suck in the 8×10 Polaroid. Dan Bosman, a Mars Cafe barista of 14 years, and I are chatting just like we always do.

It hasn’t been easy being a portrait photographer during a pandemic. I opened my tintype portrait studio in February of 2020 with visions of goofy vintage photo remakes and smiling families gracing my lens. By the end of March, it was only still lifes full of skulls and dead flowers, dark and stale tones oddly appropriate for the time.

I first came to the hospital back in June, having decided that the stories and experiences of the front line staff shouldn’t be forgotten. We’d all seen inside the Italian hospitals, but when the virus hit the UK, there was nothing coming out of the UK, so I made it my mission to gain access and document the life and death struggles going on behind closed doors.

Given the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19, the entire visual arts industry has been turned upside down at best and ground to a halt at worst. But one company decided to try something different, and just launched an ad campaign shot entirely remotely via Facetime.

Photographer Paul Rutherford is back with another behind the scenes look at what it's like shooting professional sports during the pandemic. Previously he took us to a spectator-free MLB game at Fenway Park; today he's showing us what it's like working an NFL game in an empty Gillette Stadium.

At its core, photography allows us to tell the story of our history. Years from now, when we look back at images from 2020, our thoughts and feelings on how this year unfolded will be, undoubtedly, extremely complex.

My name is Howard Lao, and I'm a freelance sports photographer based in Portland, Oregon. Over the past five years, I’ve covered dozens of track meets. From the 2016 Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, and the World Track Championships in London and Portland, to meets between the University of Washington and Washington State, I’ve filed and edited photos in a media workroom, surrounded by my fellow photographers.

Has COVID-19 impacted the look of ad campaigns? Maybe, but probably not by as much as you might think. What is impacted, however, is the way that a commercial photography set operates for the foreseeable future.

Tamron Japan has issued a statement explaining that it will be extending the closure of two key factories through the end of 2020 because "the global market has not yet recovered" from the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and demand is still depressed.

"Sani/nation" is a new project by underwater performer and director Christine Ren (AKA The Underwater Woman). It's a series of underwater portraits that aim to convey the emotional pain brought on this year by COVID-19 quarantines around the world.

"Before and After" is a photo series by photographer Brad Freeman that documents the isolation he has experienced in Toronto, Canada, during the COVID-19 pandemic. His brother Ryan also made the above 4.5-minute short documentary about Brad's experience in creating the work.

Olympus Europe recently teamed up with "extreme photographer" Fernando Marmolejo to create an in-depth tutorial that shows you how to properly deep-clean and disinfect both a weather sealed and a non-weather sealed camera body—in this case, three Olympus OM-D cameras.

Professional sports leagues such as the NBA and MLB have returned to action without fans in attendance due to COVID-19 pandemic safety measures, and there are still sports photographers on hand to document the games. Boston-based photographer Paul Rutherford made this 4-minute video showing what it's like to shoot a pro baseball game in an empty stadium.