portrait

Hasselblad has announced the winners of its prestigious Hasselblad Masters 2023 competition.

In early March, Leica announced the recipients of its fifth annual Leica Women Foto Project Award, celebrating four exceptionally talented women photographers. PetaPixel is chatting with each honoree, starting with Canadian photographer Stasia Schmidt.

Photographer Keith Barraclough has been shooting portraits of redheads for 11 years, capturing well over 500 ginger-haired people.

Chinese smartphone company Vivo released the V30 smartphone earlier this month, promising better portraits thanks to a smarter flash. The company is back with another V30-series smartphone, the powerful V30 Pro.

Many camera manufacturers choose to support, or at least turn a blind eye to, third-party lens makers. Some even wholeheartedly embrace them. However, Canon has infamously taken a stance to deny third-party manufacturers access to its RF mount. The fascinating twist is that many companies were beginning to produce manual and autofocusing lenses before the crack-down, creating an exclusive market of very rare lenses that hit the streets before the curtain fell.

Recently, I took tour photos at the Lyric Theatre in Baltimore, Maryland, of my favorite comedian, Nikki Glaser. Nikki's team is using my photos to create graphics that she shares on social media to promote The Good Girl tour.

Being a freelance photographer is not easy. Chasing invoices, dealing with late payments, the list goes on, but very few have ever missed out on a payment of $8 million that was rightfully theirs.

Photographing Sandra Day O’Connor was unlike any other photo shoot I have ever done before or since. It began with a phone call from The New York Times, asking me to meet Justice O’Connor at her house and create a portrait of her against a white background.

Photographer Larry Fink, best known for his black-and-white photographs documenting American society, passed away at his home in Pennsylvania over the weekend at age 82.

Alongside the RF 200-800mm telephoto zoom lens, Canon has announced the RF 24-105mm f/2.8 L IS USM Z, the world's first 24-105mm zoom lens with a constant f/2.8 maximum aperture.

Previously, we made a video about when and why you would use a mirrorless interchangeable lens camera instead of a smartphone. It seems only fair to look at the opposite scenario too.

Nikon does not give many of its lenses a moniker; the Nikkor Z 58mm f/0.95 "Noct" was the only Z-mount lens to have an official title. That is until now: introducing the new Nikkor Z 135mm f/1.8 S "Plena".

The Northern Photography Prize celebrates the best in amateur photography in North East England. A pair of amateur photographers from the historic region have been awarded the landscape and portrait awards in this year's Northern Photography Prize competition.

Professional sports photographer Carlos Gonzalez has been shooting player portraits for the NFL's Minnesota Vikings for many years for The Star Tribune's annual season preview. Most years, alongside traditional portraits, Gonzalez tries a second camera setup for something experimental and different.

Australian photographer Forough Yavari has won the International Portrait Photographer of the Year 2023 competition, earning herself a share of the contest's $10,000 prize pool.

Fine art portrait photographer David Teran traveled the world with his 1969 Hasselblad 500C/M camera to capture beautiful black and white portraits of some of the most talented and powerful ballerinas. Teran has launched a Kickstarter campaign to celebrate the multi-year project to release a special book, Hasselblad Ballet.

Belgian photographer Vincent Lagrange has been around photography his entire life, having grown up in his father's photography studio. While Vincent has followed in his father's portraiture footsteps, including some stunning portraits of people, Vincent has garnered international attention for his portraits of animals.