TIME Magazine has published its annual selection of the 100 best photos of the year. The publication's selection of images paints a picture of a year of recovery after 2020 that may not quite be what many hoped for.
A photo of a woman holding a Dior bag by notable Chinese photographer Chen Man has sparked controversy in China, with netizens and multiple local publications claiming it furthers stereotypes common in the West.
Donald J. Trump is publishing a photo book that covers his four years as President of the United States. Titled, "Our Journey Together," the book will include more than 300 photos along with captions written by Mr. Trump.
The world's largest digital camera with a resolution of 3.2-gigapixels is being prepared for installation atop a Chilean mountain where it will scan the sky to help scientists gain knowledge about the Milky Way, dark matter, and other phenomena.
NASA is making significant progress on reviving the Hubble Space Telescope, which has been in safe mode since early November after the synchronization of messages that control its instruments were becoming lost.
A seemingly ordinary photo of Kim Kardashian posing next to an ancient golden Egyptian coffin has helped solve an international mystery involving looted antiquities.
“Why are guns and cameras so closely connected?” This is what I set out to explore and investigate recently through my own experience in film. Between starting the production and finishing it, one major event made this connection a lot darker.
As a child during the 1980s, I grew up with a weekly diet of Time magazine and the evening news. The famine in Ethiopia during the decade generated an endless stream of news filled with images of Black bodies, so much so that my entire conception of the continent was built off the tragedy of a single nation. To me, Africa was a desert wasteland of starving people – a thought conceived through photos.
Mick Rock, born Michael Edward Chester Smith, who is regarded as one of the most influential British music photographers and is referred to "the man who shot the 70s," has passed away. He was 72.
A new report has found that creators with large engagement and followings on one social media platform rarely, if ever, can recreate the same success on other platforms, which paints a bleak picture for photographers who hope to leave Instagram.
British photographer Rankin recently shot the cover of Hunger Magazine with Facebook's new Ray-Ban Stories, making it the first magazine cover ever captured with smart glasses. It also happens to feature an actress wearing smart glasses.
Instagram has released a long-awaited feature that allows users to delete a single image or clip from an already uploaded carousel.
A bipartisan coalition of eight state attorneys general is investigating the effects of Instagram on young people with a focus on the techniques used by the company to increase and maintain engagement on the platform.
Controversial photographer John "Jock" Sturges has pled guilty to sexual misconduct for actions he took when he was 28-years old with a child under the age of 16.
Burglars have been targeting film industry businesses in Atlanta in recent days, leading several companies to band together in order to combat the growing problem.
The Leica Freedom Train was not a physical coal or steam engine, but the monumental effort of the Leitz family. This is how they and the Leica camera company saved hundreds of Jews from persecution at the hands of the Nazis.
Author and motivational speaker Kyle Scheele recently used his Photoshop skills and creativity to pull off a humorous prank on a gas station convenience store.
The photographer who was recently awarded The Environmental Photographer of the Year title has come under scrutiny for his use of children in his portfolio. The controversy has raised questions about child protection in contests and the photography industry at large.
Astro filmmaker Seán Doran has used a set of 78,846 repaired, rescaled, and remastered AIA Angstrom 171 photos from NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory to create a dramatic 48-minute timelapse video of the Sun as it moves over the course of a month.
One of the deepest and most embedded "rules" of photography and videography is to ensure that horizon lines are straight. It is a practice so hardwired into most courses, seeing any deviation from this is deeply unsettling. And that's the point.
A wedding photographer has sparked a lively discussion online by sharing three things photographers see at weddings that may indicate that the new marriage will not last.
Photographers covering the New York City Marathon this year were treated to a strange and adorable sight: one of the competing athletes was a duck wearing webbed running shoes.
Instagram very much wants users to post Reels and is paying sums of money to some creators to do so. But the value that some creators are seeing to publish reels varies, between $1,000 and up to $35,000, and the parameters for why aren't clear.
If you live outside of Maryland, you've probably never heard of Baltimore Photo-Electronic Services.
The growth of the digital "selfie" culture has had a devastating effect on local photographers in India, who frequent popular tourist sites and have historically earned a living from offering their services to tourists.
Twitter made its platform more photo-friendly last spring when it did away with cropping of images in feeds, but strangely this feature did not come to the web. That changes today, as full-size images are now supported across all platforms.
A wildlife photographer hiking in southern California had the hair-raising experience of coming face to face with a mountain lion, and he caught the encounter on camera (warning: there's some strong language).
Instagram will begin wider testing of its promised "Take a Break" feature. An optional toggle, it is designed to nudge users to stop using the app after a duration of the user's choosing, but it isn't nearly as robust as it was initially described.
Instagram appears poised to launch more widespread testing of paid creator subscriptions, a feature that would allow accounts to provide specialized content to "fans" and would allow them to generate income directly in the app.
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has introduced a new bill that would make it mandatory for services that use algorithms to serve content to offer a version that allows users to turn that feature off.
In a series of short videos that went viral on Instagram and YouTube, motion animator Kevin Parry cleverly edits himself turning into a wide variety of random things in a seamless motion, from a banana, to a balloon, to a pile of snow.
Google's new "Pet Portraits" feature inside its Arts and Culture app allows users to find works of art that resemble their pets by simply submitting a photo and letting the artificial intelligence find a match from thousands of art pieces.
Lensii, originally an artificial intelligence-assisted photo cloud platform that looked to challenge Google Photos, has announced that it's adding another target to its sights: Instagram.
Photographer Justin Bettman recently finished a portrait series that focuses on the Hasidic Jews in New York, an ultra-orthodox sect of Judaism that generally keeps to itself socially and is rarely photographed by those outside of its community.
B.J. Novak is best known for acting in, writing, directing, and producing the hit TV show The Office. Over the past several years, however, his face has also appeared in all kinds of products around the world... completely without his knowledge or permission.
The Hubble Space Telescope's scientific operations have been suspended for the second time this year. It is currently in safe mode and NASA engineers are trying to figure out what went wrong.
Just after the Christmas of 1904, a group of lucky children nestled into their seats at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London for a night of whimsy and wonder. There, they witnessed the first adventure of a boy who could never grow up, clad in autumn leaves and cobwebs. Their eyes expanded with delight as he entered the room of children just like them, on a mission to retrieve a friend.
Facebook, now Meta thanks to a recent restructure, is facing a lawsuit by the now-defunct photo app Phhhoto, which claims Mark Zuckerberg and his team downloaded the app and pushed it out of business by copying its main feature.
Devastating photos and videos emerged from Afghanistan as the Taliban regained control of the country and U.S. troops prepared to withdraw in August 2021.
Photojournalist Tony Giberson of the Pensacola News Journal documented quite the police chase this week when law enforcement spent an hour trying to chase down a runaway potbellied pig.
People watching the weather report on KFVS News in Missouri got a surprise last week when meteorologist Lisa Michaels floated into the frame on a cloud. She had come up with the perfect Halloween costume for the green screen and TV cameras.
Like chameleons, we photographers change with our environment to survive and thrive. It's inspiring to see the way we have risen to new and ever-evolving challenges in the industry. Yet, photographers are being taken advantage of now more than ever.
Recently, the creators behind Mango Street shared how their stock photos made them $47,000 in one year, but how realistic is this scenario for other photographers to emulate?
Facebook has announced that it is shuttering its Face Recognition system as part of what it is billing as a company-wide move to limit the use of facial recognition in its products.
Dear camera manufacturers, …
Instagram has introduced a new feature via a Stories sticker called "Add Yours," which allows users to create public threads in Stories that anyone can participate in.
After realizing Apple was not going to release a real photo as the wallpaper for macOS Monterey, YouTuber Andrew Levitt, videographer Jacob Phillips, and photographer Taylor Gray took to California to shoot their own.
NASA's Juno probe, which is currently orbiting Jupiter, has provided a more detailed picture of the process that makes up the clouds found in the gas giant's atmosphere. These first-ever 3D images show the structure of its numerous vortex storms.
Enric Sala is a former university professor who quit academia to become a National Geographic photographer and Explorer in Residence to help save Earth's oceans. His name is strangely also at the center of a scam targeting photographers.
The United States Copyright Office is set to make changes to how it handles small claims which, among other adjustments, cap monetary damages and require a fee to have a case heard. The Professional Photographers of America (PPA) argues this hurts photographers.
