Culture

Photography is about far more than capturing an image. How photos are shared and what social issues are impacting the profession are just as important. PetaPixel regularly covers the stories around the culture of photography, how it affects society, and what cultural changes affect the art.

How to Find Hidden Cameras

Hidden or inconspicuous cameras are fairly common in businesses with security concerns. Those black balls you see in ceiling corners or hanging from stems near checkout are undoubtedly watching and recording shoppers to make sure merchandise is being paid for.

What Major Cities Would Look Like Without Billboards

Visual pollution is when things like advertisements or unsightly cables negatively impact the aesthetics of natural or human-made landscapes, and it's particularly prevalent in the major cities of the world. But what would those cities look like with this type of pollution cleaned up?

Do You Tip Photographers? (And If So, How Much?)

You've hired a photographer and they've delivered the photos. Now you come to a question: should you tip the photographer? Not every society has tipping as a common practice, and even in those that do, whether or not photographers should be tipped continues to be a much-debated topic.

Adobe Content Analysis

Adobe May Be Using Your Photos to Train its AI

Adobe has added a "Content Analysis" section to its privacy and personal data collection permissions that, unless opted out of, opens photographers' images to being used to train the company's artificial intelligence and machine learning models.