Back in December, a young man walked into one of the fine art galleries that represent my photographs and engaged the gallery owner in a conversation about some of my prints. He seemed to be familiar with my work, said that his girlfriend was actually a fan, and remarked that he had been thinking of buying her a piece.
A group of four robbers, at least one of them armed, stole $178,000 in camera equipment and caused $20,000 in damage to the Leica Store near Union Square in San Francisco over the weekend.
In case photography isn't expensive enough, professionals in the San Francisco area are hiring security for their shoots thanks to the city's camera theft epidemic.
When photographer Alex Garcia discovered his bag was missing after arriving at Miami's airport, he spent the next hour and a half chasing it into a nearby suburb by following his AirTag's signal.
One of the most famous portraits of Winston Churchill from the Château Laurier Hotel in Ottawa has been swapped out with a fake. It is not clear how long the original has been missing.
Midwest Photo has been burglarized in a big way for a second time in five years. Surveillance video caught a truck crashing into the store as the opening act to the crime.
Camera and computer accessory brand Nine Volt has created a camera body cap that on the surface looks normal, but secretly hides a slot to hold an Apple AirTag so that photographers can always locate their equipment.
A photographer was able to recover about $7,000 in equipment stolen from his car in a hotel parking lot thanks to a set of Apple AirTags he had attached to some of the items.
If you missed the explosive report by KGO-TV reporter Dan Noyes on the theft epidemic in San Francisco, I want to both share his stories and offer some common-sense solutions to a problem that’s gotten way out of hand.
A detailed investigation has revealed what happens to all of the stolen cameras and electronics that are pilfered from cars across San Francisco: they are all sold on the street -- often within a matter of hours of theft -- and in broad daylight.
As you know, there has sadly been a raft of camera thefts in San Francisco of late, putting a spotlight on places you might want to think twice about hauling expensive camera gear with you the next time you visit.
The contest winner who submitted the winning design for Croatia's upcoming Euro coin has withdrawn his entry and returned the prize money after it was revealed that it bore a striking resemblance to a photo taken by a Scottish photographer in 2005.
A parrot in New Zealand has become Internet famous after stealing a tourist family's GoPro camera and flying away to capture some gorgeous views of a national park.
OpenSea, one of the largest marketplaces for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), recently put a cap on the number of NFTs that could be minted for free. It was removed after an outcry, but OpenSea revealed that it was added due to massive amounts of misuse.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has published a report that shows it found that more than 95,000 people say they were scammed out of at least $770 million in losses to fraud initiated on social networks, specifically naming Facebook and Instagram.
Some artists are reporting major issues with OpenSea, one of the largest non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaces. They say the company has an overly arduous process to report stolen art and is too slow to act once a complaint is filed.
EuroWeekly News – based in Malaga, Spain and published by Michel and Steven Euesden – represents itself as the leading English language newspaper in Spain, with six editions and a circulation of over a half a million copies. What they seem less obvious about promulgating is that they also apparently feel entitled to exploit the work of independent visual artists.
A new report alleges Google's mail-in repair service for Pixel phones resulted in stolen photos and a hacked device for one woman. Google says it is investigating.
A Houston-based wedding photographer has suffered a huge setback to his career after thieves broke into his car and stole over $20,000 worth of camera equipment.
A California man has pled guilty to four felonies for impersonating an Apple representative and breaking into numerous iCloud accounts in order to steal over 620,000 photos and 9,000 videos.
A photography duo from Alamosa, Colorado recently ordered a Sony Alpha 1 camera from Amazon as an investment in their business in a transaction that they report cost them more than $7,000. But instead of receiving the new camera, the two only found empty boxes.
One night two years ago, someone stole $10,000 of my camera equipment. Just recently, I found one of my more iconic lenses -- a pink Handevision 40mm f/0.85 Mark II -- for sale online. The police are slow to respond, and eBay won't help until law enforcement is involved.
This may be the modern-day equivalent of a stagecoach robbery: a pair of photographers were just brazenly robbed while they were sitting in traffic in San Francisco. Robbers smashed their rear window and stole a bag filled with $7,000 in gear, and it was all caught on camera.
The St. Louis couple who are facing felony gun charges for pointing guns at protestors marching close to their home have found themselves in yet another legal dispute. The photographer who shot a viral photo of the couple has sent them a bill after discovering that they had turned his photo into greeting cards without permission.
Facebook has announced an update to its 'Rights Manager' tool that will enable photographers to claim ownership over their most popular images, identify when those images have been used without permission, and issue takedown requests.
Last year, peer-to-peer rental services KitSplit and ShareGrid both announced a nearly identical "Owner Guarantee" that protected users in case someone they've rented to walks away with up to $20,000 of gear. However, it seems ShareGrid has quietly suspended the policy due to COVID-19.
A backpack full of thousands in camera gear, laptops, and hard drives was stolen during an anti-racism rally in Toronto, ON this past weekend. The kicker? The videographer who owned the gear captured the entire incident on video.
If you see some suspiciously affordable Leica gear popping up on the used market in the coming days, take note: it may be the result of looting that took place in New York City's SoHo neighborhood during last night's protests sparked by the death of George Floyd.
If you're feeling down and need a smile, check out this 1-minute video of a fox stealing a phone from a human and running away with it.
My name is Brad Trent, and I'm a portrait photographer based in New York City. Yesterday, on April Fools' Day, I received an anonymous email that pointed me to a photographer’s website who seemed to be passing off one of my photographs as his own.