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YouTube is cracking down on channels creating fake AI-generated movie trailers, a genre of content that has become extremely popular on the platform.

World-renowned photographic cooperative Magnum Photos, founded in 1947, announced a Kickstarter whose goal is the release of Magnum Generation(s), a graphic novel regaling the true and fascinating stories behind its founding.

A judge has ruled that most reasonable customers "would be vexed" by Burger King's ad photos, which allegedly made the Whopper look bigger than what they were served up in reality.

A Chinese photographer visiting Spain has gone viral online after he was filmed using a chokehold to subdue an alleged thief who had tried to steal his camera. The whole thing was captured by onlookers standing nearby.

Nikon is driving a bright yellow, custom Land Cruiser (license plate number Z50II) across the United States, stopping in multiple cities as part of a mobile pop-up event designed to get its cameras in the hands of more creators.

The Bild Expo, operated by B&H Photo, is returning to New York on June 17 and 18 at the Javits Center. Free for all to attend, the event will combine a show floor attended by major imaging brands such as Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm, Sony, and DJI with a docket of more than 100 speakers, including Peter McKinnon, Cristina Mittermeier, and the PetaPixel Podcast team.

American metal band Korn recently celebrated its 30th anniversary. To mark the occasion, Korn's official videographer, Sébastien Paquet, utilized the Blackmagic Camera app to turn 200 lucky Korn fans into official videographers.

One of the last known private photographs of famed Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna is available now as a limited-edition print for one final time.

A Magnum photographer says that Kanye "Ye" West used one of his photos without permission for the cover of his upcoming 12th album.

A group of wildlife photographers on an expedition in Nunavut, Canada, were recently treated to an experience of a lifetime when a pack of friendly and curious Arctic wolves approached and cozied up to them.

A 47-year-old American man was brutally impaled on a spiked metal fence at the Colosseum in Rome while scaling the barrier in an attempt to get a photo.

Doug Mills, photographer for the New York Times, and Moises Saman, contributor to the New Yorker, have been named the winners of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in the two photography categories.

US President Donald Trump has announced -- via a Sunday evening post on Truth Social -- that he is authorizing the institution of immediate 100% tariffs on all movies produced on foreign lands, calling them a national security threat.

Bonhams Cornette de Saint Cyr's recent space photograph auction has ended, with Neil Armstrong's famous portrait of Buzz Aldrin topping the charts, selling for nearly $32,000.

Caleb Denison, one of the biggest names in audio/visual reviews, made the decision earlier this month to separate from his long-time home at Digital Trends to strike out on his own. This week, Digital Trends used YouTube's copyright strike system to take his channel down, claiming ownership of the content.

Pete Souza, former Chief Official White House Photographer for Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, describes President Trump's presidential photo stream as "an Oval Office reality show" in a new article on Vanity Fair.

Famous British portrait photographer Platon, known for capturing portraits of the world's most powerful people, recently explained his portrait process at the World Economic Forum.

International street photography platform Pure Street Photography (PSP) announced today the winners and finalists of the Pure Street Photography Grant 2025, showcasing and celebrating incredible photographic voices from around the world.

In Bengali culture, Subha is a short story of a mute girl written in 1892 by the first Asian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Rabindranath Tagore.

From Mount Kilimanjaro to the Grand Canyon, these tourist landmarks are some of the most expensive places to take a photo or selfie abroad.

Award-winning British photographer Mandy Barker literally turns trash into treasure with her historically inspired fine art cyanotype images comparing marine algae to clothing waste.

Instagram officially launched Edits today, its new free video creation app designed to rival consumer video editing kingpin CapCut.

Critically acclaimed cartoonist and graphic novelist Guy Delisle turned his artistic talents toward creating a graphic novel biography of pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge.

DHL, one of the largest international logistics and shipping companies in the world, announced that it would be suspending shipments into the United States if they are valued at more than $800, citing a new customs rule.

There have been increasingly absurd regulations being imposed on visitors to Svalbard in recent years, particularly surrounding the protection of polar bears. One of the most contentious of these mandates is the requirement to maintain a minimum distance of 500 meters from a polar bear (about five American football fields), no matter the circumstance.

A new video by VX52 Movies on YouTube showcases some of the oldest photos taken in Japan. Captured from 1857 through 1925, the old photos are a brilliant time capsule of Japan as it rapidly and dramatically changed during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Sigma-sponsored and Emmy-nominated PBS program, View Finders, is in its third season and hitting its stride. The television series takes viewers on a journey to find the best photographs and landscapes in the United States.

Although fans of the hit Apple+ series Severance unfortunately couldn't purchase Apple's Lumon Terminal Pro computer, they can buy a real-life Severance-inspired keyboard for all their macrodata refinement needs.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit, known for his incredible astrophotography, sense of humor, and clever camera contraptions, is scheduled to return to Earth this month after a seven-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Before leaving space, Pettit shared some of the awesome science he has done as part of Expedition 72.

This week, a Nikon camera was found buried in the ground near a footpath on the Isles of Scilly. After checking the SD card, it was estimated to have been lost somewhere between 2017 and 2018. After publishing a few of the photos on Facebook, the owner was found just a day later.

An extremely rare photograph of Abraham Lincoln, described as “the closest you will get to ever seeing" the President, is estimated to fetch up to $1 million at auction this month.

In an effort to curtail users from treating Flickr as a free cloud storage platform, Flickr is restricting download sizes for free account holders.

Photographer turned game developer Matt Newell's brand new video game, Lushfoil Photography Sim, released today on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S. It is a beautiful, brilliant video game, and the most realistic photography game ever. PetaPixel chatted with Newell about his inspiration for Lushfoil, how he built it, and what he hopes the game offers photographers and traditional gamers alike.

Oscar-nominated and award-winning filmmaker Ryan Coogler released a new video ahead of his latest feature film Sinners' debut this week. The video breaks down Coogler's use of different Kodak film stocks and formats. It is a highly informative 10-minute video explaining the movie-making process, analog film formats, and various theater projection technology.

An extraordinary collection of 200 daguerreotypes -- that have been seen before by the public -- are going to auction at Christie's.

An American YouTuber has been arrested for attempting to make contact with the isolated Sentinelese tribe for a video, filming his visit and leaving a can of Diet Coke on the shore for them.

Thanks to his published diary, which is back in the limelight, it's clear that prolific musician and artist Eno is addicted to Adobe Photoshop.

TikTok users and the company itself will be pleased to hear that United States President Donald Trump has given TikTok parent company ByteDance a second extension to the deadline requiring the company to divest its U.S. operations.

During this week's Nintendo Direct, the popular video game company unveiled many new features of its upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 gaming console, including that it will use the maligned SD Express memory card format and work with many USB-C cameras, not just the official Nintendo one the company will sell as an optional accessory. This has opened the gates for some fun new USB-C cameras, including Hori's adorable licensed Piranha Plant one.

Award-winning actress Tilda Swinton to curate gallery exhibition featuring portraits of herself titled Tilda Swinton -- Ongoing.

President Donald Trump today announced a huge swath of global tariffs that, if enacted, would increase the cost of camera products imported from Japan in the United States by 24%. Products from China would get hit even harder with a 34% tariff.

Barcelona is creating a large public square dedicated for tourists to take selfies near Sagrada Familia, after widespread anger over mass tourism in the Spanish city.

Starting this upcoming season, the National Football League (NFL) is fully embracing Sony's Hawk-Eye technology for line-to-gain measurements in NFL games.

The German Photo Council has successfully campaigned to have analog considered to be part of UNESCO's cultural heritage program.