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Natalie Brasington is a New York-based advertising and entertainment photographer who shoots for a variety of clients, including Comedy Central, Pantene, DirecTV, Details and Rolling Stone. She recently spoke about pricing at a round table discussion put on by PhotoShelter, and we were intrigued by her approach and outlook.

One of the great civil rights movement photographers has died. Bob Adelman found dead with a head wound this past weekend in his Miami Beach home.

A photographer's awareness and quick-thinking helped save the life of a TV news reporter this week. His warning cry allowed the reporter to jump out of the path of a car crash, and it was all caught on camera.

"Soul" is a beautiful 5-minute short film about the work of Canadian fine arts photographer Jakob de Boer, who traveled to the Pacific Northwest to capture landscapes with his large format camera.

Photographer Kyle Froman has had a rather unique career journey. Before becoming an acclaimed dance photographer, Froman was himself a dancer the prestigious New York City Ballet.

Here's a short video clip showing a Formula 1 photographer doing a brief photo shoot with a car and driver during recent pre-season testing. We see how a backdrop is quickly wheeled into and out of the scene for just a few moments of shooting (and before the photographer gets a little scare from the driver).

By day, Zun Lee is a doctor in Toronto, Canada. When he's not working, he's often unwinding from stress with a camera in hand. As a self-taught photographer, his documentary and street projects have caught the eye of The New York Times, The New Yorker, Magnum, and more.

The 8-minute video above by Format's InFrame is an inspiring look at Lee's life and work.

John Biever is one of only four photographers who has shot at every single Super Bowl over the past …

Guess who was on the sidelines photographing Super Bowl 50 yesterday? Kevin Durant.

The NBA star (and MVP two years ago) was a credentialed photographer at the championship game, shooting for The Players' Tribune. One day earlier he was shooting basketballs against the Golden State Warriors at nearby Oracle Arena in Oakland.

Over in Europe, Ford has created special 'Camera Tracking Unit' cars for photographers to shoot publicity photos from. The cars are standard Ford cars that have been modified -- the back has been chopped off and turned into a rear-facing seat specifically for a photographer.

Photographer Peter Lik can be described as something of a photo tycoon. There's the unverified claim of one of his photos selling for a record-shattering $6.5 million. He has also reportedly sold over 100,000 prints for a total of over $440 million.

If you're wondering about how Lik's career came about, check out this 12-minute documentary short film that the photographer himself just published.

There's a 22-year-old college student who's shaking up the world of political photography. His name is Gage Skidmore, and you've likely seen many of his photos without knowing it. He has captured and published tens of thousands of photos of virtually every major presidential candidate over the past few years, and his Creative Commons licensed photos are being used by the media and by politicians themselves.

Dutch photojournalist Teun Voeten and videographer Maaike Engels were shooting a documentary at a migrant camp in Calais, France, earlier this month when the photographer was mugged by three refugees armed with pepper spray and a knife. The attack was stopped when other migrants in the camp came to the rescue.

The whole incident was captured by Engels in the 40-second video above.

A photographer has launched a copyright infringement lawsuit against Twitter, claiming that the social media company failed to remove a photo of hers that was posted without permission, and even after she sent multiple DMCA takedown requests to have the posts deleted.

"Stages" is a photo project by 65-year-old photographer Laura Hofstadter, who recreated some of history's famous portrait paintings as creative self-portraits.

Tim Jones is a Bristol-based photographer who is currently serving as a British Army Photographer covering West Midlands and Wales. His photos for the army are published in local and national publications

We chatted with Jones to learn more about his life and career as an official army photographer.

We recently shared a 52-week photo challenge you can do to improve you skills over the course of a year. The challenge for week #1 was "self portrait," and photographer Trevor Mahlmann completed it by creating this eye-popping photo, titled "The Universe At My Feet."

One of the big stories this past New Year's Eve was the major fire that broke out at the 63-story Address Downtown Dubai hotel, which sits next to the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building.

37-year-old photojournalist Dennis Mallari was one of the many people in the hotel when the blaze started. He found himself trapped on the 48th floor, where he had planned to shoot the city's firework displays at midnight.

CNN Style published this short feature on 35-year-old photographer Chen Man of Beijing, China, an artist who's considered to be the "Annie Leibovitz" of the Chinese fashion photography world.

Of the 6 existing Polaroid 20x24-inch cameras, one has long been in the possession of Cambridge, Massachusetts-based portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman. After more than 3 decades of shooting portraits of some of the world's best-known faces, Dorfman has decided to retire from photography.

Once a year, photographer Andy Reynolds takes his camera and lighting gear to …

Want to learn newborn photography but don't have any newborns to photograph? StandInBaby is a new product designed just for you. It's the world's first fully articulated, lifelike, and camera ready dummy baby that's designed to help photographers learn how to pose newborns.

Baseball pitching legend Randy Johnson made an appearance at the NFL game between the Seattle Seahawks and the San Francisco 49ers this past weekend. After receiving the honor of raising the team's 12 flag as the special celebrity guest, Johnson didn't step into luxury box seats to watch the rest of the game in comfort. Instead, he picked up his DSLR kits, put on a vest, and stepped onto the sidelines to shoot the game as one of the photographers.

While riding the subway on Halloween this past weekend, Mike Furlender witnessed a …

If you want to see an example of a photographer "killing it" in the Internet era, just look at Brandon Stanton of Humans of New York. In the short span of 5 years, Stanton's portraits and interviews of strangers have grown into a global phenomenon with tens of millions of faithful fans.

In addition to having 15+ million followers on Facebook and 4+ million on Instagram, Stanton will be the man behind two New York Times bestsellers after this weekend.

It seems that photographer biopics are a hot topic in the film industry these days. An indie film released earlier this year told the story of Eadweard Muybridge, and Steven Spielberg is reportedly working with actress Jennifer Lawrence on a film about war photographer Lynsey Addario.

Now there's another famous actress tied to a movie about a famous photographer: Kate Winslet has reportedly signed on to portray the iconic photographer Lee Miller in an upcoming biopic.

If you have a formal education in photography, there's a good chance you studied the work of Hilla Becher. Together with her late husband Bernd, Hilla founded what's known as the "Becher School" in photography, and the couple's black-and-white industrial photos of Germany -- called "typologies" -- influenced a generation of photographers, including the renowned German photographer Andreas Gursky.

Hilla passed away in Dusseldorf, Germany, this past Saturday at the age of 81.

Poet Edgar Allan Poe had glowing things to say about photography after it exploded onto the scene in the mid-1800s. Other commentators in those days weren't so kind.

There are quite a few cartoons from the 1800s that show a more pessimistic view of photography and its emergence in the world.