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Amidst whiplash change in technology and media, Grand Ole Opry is celebrating its 100th year (1925-2025).
The Carnegie Corporation named 26 Andrew Carnegie Fellows in 2025, providing scholarships up to $200,000. One of these 26 Fellows is a photographer/cinematographer: Pulitzer Prize winner Steven G. Smith, a professor at the University of Connecticut.
American photographer Joel Meyerowitz (b. 1938) has been an exceptionally influential photographer since the 1960s. He helped color photography earn respect in fine art circles, and his street photography exudes unmistakable style. One of his most famous photos has been named the Leica Picture of the Year 2025.
For many, digital cameras are tools for creating art. However, in some very specialized applications, high-resolution digital cameras are used to preserve it. In Japan, Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage is using 150-megapixel Phase One medium-format cameras to digitize manga, ensuring that fast-fading artwork is preserved for generations to come.
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is presenting the first exhibition to explore photography’s impact on a cultural and aesthetic movement that celebrated Black history, identity, and beauty.
While the late Pope Francis' one-of-a-kind Leica kit selling for around $7 million made the biggest headlines, there was a lot of incredible photo gear that sold for huge sums at the recent 47th Leitz Photographica Auction in Vienna, Austria, including a Leica MP black paint that sold for about $1 million, a wild Leica I Mod. A Luxus special outfit, and much more.
In September, it was announced that the late Pope Francis' unique Leica M-A and Leica Noctilux-M 1:1.2/50mm ASPH would be auctioned for charity. The auction took place over the weekend and the camera and lens sold for €6.5 million (about $7 million), one of the highest charitable results ever achieved by a Leica camera.
The New York Historical will open an exhibition this fall that explores the importance of photography in documenting and understanding the immigrant experience of New York City.
Anyone using the "eye test" would probably find that short form video, popularized by TikTok and now found everyone online, is bad for the brain. But a new study from the American Psychological Association now directly ties short form video content with significantly diminished mental health. In short -- pun intended -- it's rotting brains.
Chris Niccolls and Jordan Drake are returning to The Camera Store (TCS), where their career started! For one day only and in celebration of reaching 250,000 subscribers, the duo are heading back behind the counter to reprise their old roles.
Photographer Tammy Ljungblad has worked at The Kansas City Star for 36 years. She has never seen anything like the impact of megastar Taylor Swift on NFL games at Arrowhead Stadium and the broader Kansas City community.
Amazon MGM Studios has released the second official trailer for the upcoming blockbuster film adaptation, Project Hail Mary, and it's shaping up to be a visual feast thanks in part to its cinematographer, the fantastic Greig Fraser, and his use of IMAX cameras.
War Toys has worked with the estate of the late, great photojournalist Dickey Chapelle to create a remarkably accurate and detailed 1:32 scale figure of the photographer. This figure, which includes Chapelle's trademark glasses, earrings, and Leica and Nikon cameras, will join a larger set of noncombatant figures for an educational board game that focuses on the people who work for peace in war and combat.
World Press Photo is celebrating 70 iconic photographs taken over the past 70 years with a print sale: 70 Prints for 70 Years. Some of these shots have never been sold as prints before.
Back in August, I flew to the Philippines as the set photographer on a film called "Dyahe Piece" that my friend Coco Tolentino wrote and directed. It wasn’t my film, and it wasn’t my story, but it actually became one of the most fulfilling projects and trips I’ve done in a while.
The acclaimed artist Anish Kapoor is considering taking legal action after being left "horrified" by a group photo taken by border patrol agents posed in front of his Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago.
The photographer involved in a heavily scrutinized Balenciaga campaign three years ago has filed a lawsuit against Drake, alleging that the rapper’s music video copied his work and attempted to connect his feud with Kendrick Lamar to the photographer’s role in that controversial fashion shoot.
Animal photographer Tim Flach has taken hundreds of photos of cats and, through his time with them, finds himself asking questions about why they are so important to humans. He has partnered with scientists to find out exactly why they elicit the emotions they do, and how he, as a photographer, can better highlight those aspects of their form.
Last week, Vogue France published a short snippet from an interview where Jisoo -- an incredibly popular member of the K-pop group Blackpink -- talks about her love of the Fujifilm X-Pro3. Describing the photos it takes as "cinematic" and "atmospheric," she also touches on another angle of why she and her friends like it: how it looks.
The Flickr Foundation, an independent non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the world’s shared visual culture, has announced the beta release of a new archiving tool that is designed to preserve photos and their surrounding social context for 100 years: Data Lifeboat.
The iconic photograph used for the cover of David Bowie’s record Aladdin Sane has become the most expensive album artwork ever sold at auction.
Netflix has published a new trailer for the explosive documentary, The Stringer, that challenges the long-standing claim that Nick Ut took the famous "Terror of War" photo, often referred to as "Napalm Girl."
Fujifilm celebrated the opening of two new "House of Photography" spaces in Europe this week. The first was in Barcelona, Spain, on November 5, and the second in Porto, Portugal today, November 7.
Fujifilm India published a public "apology" on its Facebook account this morning, saying it is sorry for "making photography this awesome."
In this month's print edition of The Onion (yes, there is a physical printed version of the satirical news website), the historically coveted back of the paper is emblazoned with what appears to be an Adobe ad but is actually a humorous jab at the company's business model.
The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has issued a cease and desist to Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, demanding that the platform stop using the "PG-13" rating it recently rolled out, arguing that doing so exploits its brand.
Despite the controversy surrounding its use of generative AI to create a trio of Christmas advertisements last year, Coca-Cola has once again returned to the world's driest well, churning out yet another terrible AI-generated advertisement.
At least one historical daguerreotype was among a set of more than 1,000 artifacts that were stolen from the Oakland Museum of California earlier this month.
It is becoming more common to see celebrities and pop stars using classic cameras as the vintage aesthetic continues to burn white hot. However, most tend to stick with digital -- Taylor Swift and Selina Gomez both really like the Olympus EM-10 Mark IV, for example. Sabrina Carpenter is going even further back in time though as she has been spotted sporting a beautiful Contax G2.
Photographer and YouTube creator Mathieu Stern saw an incredible piece of cinematic and optical history show up on an auction site. While it was outside his price range, it was not beyond the reach of Atlas Lens Co., known for its Orion and Mercury series cinema lenses. The lens in question was a Bausch + Lomb CinemaScope anamorphic lens attachment, which could turn a traditional cinema lens into a then-groundbreaking anamorphic optic.
KEH is gearing up (pun intended) to host its annual Gear Expo & Trade Event, which it calls the Southeast's Ultimate Photography Event. Taking place November 14-15, the pre-owned camera gear dealer promises demos, workshops, and special trade-in savings.
The 2025-26 NBA season tipped off this week, and Covers.com dove into Instagram data to determine which NBA arena is the most frequently photographed.
Award-winning photographer Joe Vitti remembers the night he encountered Bruce Springsteen in a small-town campus bar in 1976, ultimately capturing just one single shot. But what a shot it was of the rock star known as "The Boss."
Meta wants access to the photos on Facebook users' smartphone camera rolls. The company's new feature is designed to help people find "shareworthy" photos they haven't yet published, but the privacy concerns are obvious and there are important considerations about how these photos may be used to train AI.
Magnum Photos and Aperture have teamed up for a new edition of Magnum's Square Print Sale. The latest sale, titled Youth, features prints from celebrated photographers like Steve McCurry, Joel Meyerowitz, Susan Meiselas, Alec Soth, and many more.
Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has revealed the story behind his photograph that ultimately became the cover image for Frank Ocean’s 2016 album Blonde.
A ban on photographing and filming people without their permission appears set to be signed into law in Uzbekistan after the country’s parliament voted in favor of the legislation on October 7.
The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) has condemned "in the strongest possible terms" the actions taken by ICE officers against journalists in Federal Plaza in New York City earlier this week. "The assault on an a New York reporter and the serious injury inflicted on another journalist represent an unacceptable, blatant attack on press freedom," the organization writes.
Kodak is taking advantage of its vintage roots by collaborating with various global brands, becoming just as much of a fashion icon as it is a film manufacturer. That continues this week with a "capsule collection" series made in collaboration with Reebok.
As part of the ongoing centenary celebration for the Leica I, the first commercially available 35mm camera, Leitz Photographic Auction is putting a collection of dynamic photographs up for sale in a special auction called "Motion."
Just an hour after the first pitch of the first MLB playoff game of the season, a camera behind home plate was victimized by a glancing foul ball, loudly erupting into a shower of glass.
CreativeLive, one of the original platforms for online photography education, is shutting down on December 31, 2025. The site is now closed to all but current users and will be wholly shuttered at the end of the year.
Singer Selena Gomez chose photographer Petra Collins -- whose dreamlike pastel aesthetic and soft-focus film images have become highly influential online -- to shoot her wedding.
The trailer for Steve Schapiro: Being Everywhere has been released, giving fans a first look at the documentary about the iconic American photographer and journalist.
Most of the world’s art is locked away and will never be seen. This isn’t due to any nefarious reason, simply the ravages of time -- historical paintings are degraded and can require months, years, or even a decade of sluggish, painstaking restoration. As a result, about 70% of paintings in institutional collections are not on public view.
From family snapshots to school pictures, children today almost always strike the peace sign, a simple V-shaped gesture that has quietly become a ubiquitous part of their photo poses.
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that outlines how the China-based Bytedance divestiture from TikTok in the United States will play out, laying the groundwork for the app to be majority-owned by U.S. persons and leaving Bytedance with a minority stake. This move only applies to the U.S.-based version of the app.
Controversial photographer Sally Mann has warned of “a new era of culture wars” and predicted further attacks on the arts.
An extraordinary collection of photographs, including rare works by Ansel Adams, Helmut Newton, and Diane Arbus, will be offered at auction by Christie’s this fall.
