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Picture day almost did not happen for a New York City school, until a celebrity photographer stepped in to shoot the students' portraits.

Kim Kardashian is refining her personal brand. Right-wing news outlet Fox TV is gaining viewers through attention-grabbing headlines. Photographer Gabriele Galimberti is gaining notoriety. All this is due to a recent advertising campaign from leading global fashion brand Balenciaga that has caused widespread controversy.

Raspberry Pi, makers of single-board computers and tiny cameras, has come under fire from members of its user base that are upset the company hired a former police officer who used the products to covertly surveil targets.

Meghan Markle says the paparazzi paid her neighbors to put a livestream camera into her backyard.

After a year of chasing TikTok's domination in short-form video, Meta is now reportedly considering building its own version of Twitter within its photo-sharing app, Instagram.

Pirelli has unveiled its 2023 calendar shot by Australian fashion photographer Emma Summerton.

People are criticizing viral photo editing app Lensa AI -- claiming that its artificial intelligence (AI) selfie generator is sexualizing and changing their portraits beyond recognition.

Engineers from the University of South Australia and Baghdad's Middle Technical University have designed a way to measure blood pressure with no physical contact using a camera and artificial intelligence (AI).

Instagram is expanding its Account Status page to better help users with professional accounts understand if and why their content is eligible to be recommended to non-followers, and what it can do to change that if it is not.

Social media users could use artificial intelligence (AI) generated deepfakes faces to hide their identity in other people's photos.

Los Angeles street gang photographer Merrick Morton has been kicked off Instagram for promoting "dangerous organizations."

Meta has threatened to remove news from Facebook in the U.S. if Congress passes a new media bill that would help local news publications -- with photographers being affected in a potential fallout.

Photographers have taken to social media to call out the "misleading" images that were used to depict them in the new trailer for Prince Harry's and Meghan Markle's upcoming Netflix show.

Meta has added age verification to its Facebook Dating platform and will demand video selfies and ID uploads from people it suspects of lying about their age.

A wedding photographer is trying to clear her name after she was accused of not showing up to an engagement photo shoot in a viral social media post.

Facebook groups are refusing to publish photographs of snowy owls in a bid to stop photographers whose "paparazzi-like behavior" around the animals is harming conservation efforts.

A photographer has shared tips on how to keep babies' faces hidden this Christmas for parents who want to share festive photos without revealing their children's identity.

Hive Social, an app many considered to be the new alternative to Instagram and Twitter, has completely shut down its servers to address security issues after it struggled to handle a recent surge in sign-ups.

A deepfake of Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg thanked Congressional Democrats for failing to take action against the biggest tech companies in an eerily realistic video.

A photographer has shared his 50-year-old photo of a mystery couple who were kissing their way around Canada in a bid to find the duo.

A photographer assembled 2,500 nude volunteers for a naked photo shoot on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.

Instagram has removed Weird Al Yankovic's post with his "close friend Pablo Escobar" for breaching community guidelines.

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James revealed that he has a special handshake with the basketball team's official photographer.

Corey Allen, the co-founder of the Flagstaff Camera Store Hidden Light, is currently missing after he tried to help his wife Yeon-Su Kim who was swept away from shore due to high winds and strong tides on Thanksgiving. Kim's body was found Sunday.

Former First Lady Michelle Obama has warned the paparazzi to leave her daughters Sasha and Malia alone.

Vero has updated its terms of use to remove the word "perpetual" from the license section to make it clear that the image rights granted by users are limited to the time that users have a Vero account.

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.

Balenciaga has clarified that it will not be suing the photographer who shot its controversial campaign that featured child models holding teddy bears dressed in bondage gear.

An Iranian photographer, who was about to embark on his "dream" of shooting the World Cup, has reportedly been arrested and imprisoned in his home country.

San Francisco will be posting more police in the Marina district in response to the high-profile armed robbery of a photographer at the Palace of Fine Arts last week.

The black-naped pheasant-pigeon, a large, ground-dwelling pigeon that only lives on one island, has been documented by scientists for the first time since its 1882 discovery and has been captured on camera for the first time ever.

A woman warned others to "NEVER do stock image modeling" after her photograph ended up being published in an unflattering article.

New research has revealed that the average U.S. adult is sitting on over $2,000 worth of unused tech -- with the majority of consumers surveyed owning at least one camera in their home that they are not using.

An underwater photographer could not resist taking a selfie with one of the ocean's deadliest creatures: a highly venomous blue-ringed octopus.

This new first-person view (FPV) drone video goes above and beyond previous takes on the style by flying over the Florida Gators college football team as they take the field -- live and unscripted.

A rare historical print of the only photo taken of Neil Armstrong on the moon is set to go to auction this week and is estimated to sell for a whopping $30,000.

It happened again in San Francisco. A wedding photographer was attacked while shooting portraits at the beautiful Palace of Fine Arts, yet another in a long line of terrible situations playing out in a city that has chosen, for whatever reason, not to crack down on these series of camera crimes.

The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) has combined with the North American Nature Photography Association (NANPA) to form a new photography association with combined benefits of both.

The X100V is so popular that Fujifilm has announced it is temporarily stopping orders for the digital camera because the company has too many purchases to process.

An audit of a University of California professor found that he spent $404,000 of state funds over the course of several years to purchase camera equipment he used to make posts on Instagram and to sell prints on his personal website.

A report by the Wall Street Journal has claimed that Meta fired or disciplined more than two dozen employees and contractors over the last year who allegedly hijacked accounts and in some cases demanded bribes.