Annie Leibovitz Says She’s Not Worried About AI
The world's most famous photographer Annie Leibovitz says she's not worried about artificial intelligence (AI) and that photography itself isn't real.
Sebastião Salgado Announces Retirement From the Field
Legendary photographer Sebastião Salgado has announced his retirement from shooting in the field.
Sebastião Salgado Receives Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award
One of the world's foremost photographers Sebastião Salgado will receive the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award from the Sony World Photography Awards 2024.
Amazônia: Sebastião Salgado’s Photo Essay Nine Years in the Making
Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado is widely regarded as one of the great photographers on the planet today. He has traveled to over 120 countries, capturing powerful social documentary images that have appeared in exhibitions and publications around the globe.
Photographer Sebastião Salgado Wins Japan’s ‘Nobel Prize of Art’
The Praemium Imperiale award -- one of the world's top art prizes by The Japan Art Association -- has been granted to the esteemed Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado.
The Salt of the Earth: A Documentary About the Work of Photographer Sebastião Salgado
The Salt of the Earth is a documentary film released last year by Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, the son of renowned Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. It explores the work of the elder Salgado, who has traveled the Earth for the past 40 years in order to document our planet and the human condition. Above is the trailer for the film (note: there's a bit of nudity in these clips), which will be hitting theaters in the US starting later this month.
Photo Projects That Made For A Better 2013
It’s that time of the year when we all take a moment to reflect back on the major events that will forever be remembered, the trends that changed our zeitgeist, and the pop culture phenomena that will soon be forgotten.
For the photo industry, this was the year that the word “selfie” was coined Webster’s Dictionary’s word of the year. In such a context and with so much of the conversation focused on the mobile photo taking frenzy, it almost started to get a little too easy to overlook the stories out there that, if not for the photograph, would not have been told nor raised in our collective social consciousness.
Sebastião Salgado on His Powerful Photo Projects and His Shift to Conservation
The photographic story of Sebastião Salgado doesn't begin when he was handed a camera as a child. It, like a few others we've shared, begins much later in life (after a PhD in economics) when photography, as Salgado puts it, "made a total invasion into [his] life."