Commercial film director Nate Townsend produced this compelling short film that reminds viewers about the value and importance of capturing moments. Made as a reminder to his deceased father, Townsend's film is based on the dedication of preserving the passion of photography.
Back in 2001, this music video made the rounds on the Web before "going viral" was even a thing. It's for the hit song "Because I'm a Girl" by the Korean pop trio KISS (the video above is the English version sung by one of the members). The story is about a photographer's expression of true love.
It's not a new feature, but today Apple has released a new cinematic commercial for its 'Memories' feature of the Photos app on iOS devices. It's poignant look at the power of photography in helping us enjoy memories.
In late 2013, Australian photographer Cameron Bloom's family found an abandoned magpie chick on the ground in Newport, New South Wales. They took the bird in, learned how to raise it, and it quickly became a part of their family and daily life.
As they raised the magpie, which they named "Penguin," Bloom began to document the experience through Instagram. Tens of thousands of people around the world are now following along as he shares touching photos that show the closeness of the bird and family.
In September of 2012, while shooting a long exposure series at the Ben Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia, photographer Bruce Wayne saw a man take his own life. This experience weighing heavily on his mind, Wayne later set out to capture a long-exposure time-lapse of City Center Philadelphia that would paint the city in a darker light.
He wanted to shoot a time-lapse that might capture an inkling of, "what the city must have felt like and looked like" to the man on that fateful day.
Television personality Jason Silva recently put together a poignant video with Shots of Awe that examines The Instagram Generation, and how this photo-driven generation sees their future as a series of ‘anticipated memories’.
When photographer Jennifer Loeber lost her mother suddenly this past February, Loeber found herself clinging to even the most mundane and seemingly innocuous of the possessions her mother had left behind. But, as is so often the case, these objects became a stumbling block, a barrier to moving on, rather than the source of comfort she had hoped they would be.
And so, in her poignant, powerful series Left Behind, she symbolically 'let go' of the hold these items had on her grief by sharing photos of them on Instagram alongside related archival photographs of her mother.
Don McCullin is a household name in the photographic community, but as far as he is concerned, it's for all the wrong reasons. In this incredibly poignant and thought-provoking interview, he shares his thoughts about an illustrious career that was spent photographing atrocities, and left him somewhat haunted.
When filmmaker Paul Kroeker happened across a dragonfly that lay dying on his …
There’s a photography joke that goes, “If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph …