The 2024 Summer Olympics kicked off in Paris earlier this week, with the official opening commencing today, July 26. The "Games of the XXXIII Olympiad," as the event is officially known, puts athletes through grueling competition, but the photographers on hand to photograph everything don't have it much easier. It is a sports photography gauntlet.
Earlier this week, the Canadian women's soccer team was caught spying on its New Zealand opponent's practice with a drone which saw two staffers immediately sent home. It turns out this may not have been the first time Canada's teams did this, however.
As excitement builds for the Paris Olympics, one photographer has already taken a shot that is a contender for picture of the Games.
The defending Olympic champion Canadian women's soccer team has become embroiled in a drone spying scandal that will see its head coach not present for the team's match tomorrow and two staffers have been sent home.
Injured photojournalist Cristina Assi carried the Olympic Flame as it makes its way to Paris ahead of Friday's opening ceremony.
NBC announced that it selected Sony as its broadcast equipment partner for the production of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic games in Paris. This includes cameras, monitors, lenses, and accessories across the entire NBC broadcast operation.
The very first crime scene photographs ever made were taken by a pioneering detective from Paris who realized how useful photography can be in solving a case.
Photography icons Helmut Newton, Weegee, Irving Penn, Brassaï, Berenice Abbot, and Bill Brandt all feature in a new exhibition focusing on nightlife in New York City, Paris, and London.
Proposals are up and photographers are cashing in as American tourists flock to Paris, France to pop the question.
Françoise Bornet, the subject of one of the most iconic kissing photos ever -- taken in Paris, France -- has died aged 93.
A photographer took 964 photos of Paris to create a truly epic hyperlapse video of the famous city.
Images generated by artificial intelligence (AI) have the power to deceive and that's exactly what happened recently when a series of "photos" pertaining to show Paris covered in trash went viral.
A photographer captured a full Moon framed inside Paris' iconic Arc de Triomphe -- a shot that took months of planning.
Photographer Marilyn Stafford has died at the age of 97. Her first-ever portrait subject was none other than Albert Einstein.
A photographer who spent 28 hours constructing the Eiffel Tower from 10,001 LEGO pieces used forced perspective to make it look like the real thing.
Micro mobility giant Lime will launch scooters with the first in-house-built computer vision platform that will leverage cameras to detect when users are riding on the sidewalk next month.
Financial districts are more known for their buildings than for their parks: from the Financial District of NYC to the City of London, these places are synonyms of concrete, steel, and glass, not parks or flowers.
A well-known 84-year-old photographer died in the middle of a busy Paris street last week after he fell and was ignored by passersby for over nine hours.
For the last years, I have spent every summer traveling across France to discover the diversity of its landscapes and its natural heritage. Usually, summer is synonymous with crowds of vacationers and tourists. For this project, summer is also synonymous with lush nature, in which infrared photography works the best to reveal alternative colors.
Travel back in time to Paris during the roaring '20s featuring flappers, bobbed hair, and cloche hats in this short 2-minute archival video colorized by Glamourdaze. The video was created using artificial intelligence to restore the footage and add color.
What if the iconic statues found throughout Paris didn't feature legendary heroes of old, but rather pop-culture heroes of modern times? That's what French photographer and retoucher Benoit Lapray tries to answer with his new photo project titled Monuments.
Paris-based director and designer Benoit Millot took his camera out on March 26th at noon, a time at which the city is ordinarily bustling with life, and shot eerie views of how empty the streets are due to the coronavirus shutdown.
How far would you go to set up the scene of your dreams for the perfect wedding day photo shoot? Photographer Priscila Valentina was recently hired by a guy named Samuel whose grand romantic gesture was to spend a morning pushing a piano through the streets of Paris and up to the Eiffel Tower.
Want to see what life in the streets of Paris was like over a century ago in the late 1890s? Film restorer Guy Jones collected old footage shot between 1896 and 1900, slowed it down to a natural speed, and added sound for ambiance. This beautiful 6-minute experience is what resulted.
One of the most viral photos of the past few days has been a side-by-side comparison of two photos that purports to show how photographers covering the Paris protests are misrepresenting the truth.
What does Paris look like when seen through the eyes and lenses of thousands of unrelated photographers? That's what researcher and artist Moritz Stefaner explores in Multiplicity, a mesmerizing new art installation that's on display in France's capital.
"Over Paris" is a gorgeous ongoing photo project by photographer Alain Cornu, who brings his 4x5 large format field camera onto rooftops around the Paris for views of the city at night.
You can almost never find videos or photos of the Eiffel Tower at night on stock sites. Why is this? Because the Eiffel Tower is copyrighted when those lights are twinkling in the night sky. This 4-minute video from Half as Interesting explains why.
In about one week, we will mark the anniversary of the most traumatic and violent piece of French history in the last decades. On the 13th of November, 2015, several coordinated terrorist attacks took place in Paris, less than a year after the attacks against the newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
Amateur photographer Pierre-Louis Ferrer wanted to capture the dreamier side of Paris. But how do you offer a fresh take on a city that's been photographed from every angle... twice? For Ferrer, the secret was infrared.