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Annie Leibovitz has shot the promotional images for Season 5 of The Chosen -- a free TV show depicting the life of Jesus.

To celebrate its 70th birthday, Vienna Airport in Austria invited eight photographers to capture its comings and goings starting at 3 A.M. running through until the early hours of the following day.

A photography team has put together a mesmerizing flow motion timelapse of London, deploying novel techniques to tell the story of the U.K. capital.

For just a brief moment, photographer Drew Geraci thought he might have captured something out of this world. On his DNG file was a bizarre orb, the question had to be asked: had he just captured the best photo of a UFO ever?

The Royal Entomological Society (RES) has announced the winners of its 2024 Photography Competition, unveiling an amazing selection of up-close images of fascinating insects.

The Philadelphia Eagles dominated the Kansas City Chiefs at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, winning Super Bowl LIX and lifting the Vince Lombardi trophy. The Associated Press (AP) was on hand in full force with its Sony cameras and lenses to document everything, and PetaPixel chatted with the AP to learn more about how it photographs the biggest sporting event of the year.

The winners of Close-Up Photographer of the Year have been announced with an image of two stag beetles battling for dominance on an oak tree taking home the £2,500 ($3,100) cash prize and title of Close-Up Photographer of the Year 2024.

Comet G3 (ATLAS) recently appeared in the skies above Earth: a rare celestial visitor that is thought to appear just once every 600,000 years. It lit up the skies of the southern hemisphere and has been dubbed the "Great Comet of 2025."

A serendipitous photograph of a badger looking up at a graffiti of a gun-toting badger has won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People's Choice Award 2024.

The Photo Brussels festival has embraced AI images by showcasing artists who use the controversial medium to tell stories in much the same way real photographers do.

This week, Reflx Lab announced that it would soon no longer be able to offer some of its respooled 35mm motion picture stock because Kodak is more strictly "crack[ing] down" on respoolers. So, why is Kodak forfeiting the extra money made by selling to brands like Reflx Lab?

The winners of the DPG Masters Underwater Imaging Competition, organized by DivePhotoGuide, have been revealed. Canadian videographer Eiko Jones has been named the overall winner for his film The Journey.

The Professional Photographers of America (PPA) Council will hold a meeting in Grapevine, Texas where members will vote to recall the current board of directors citing concerns over leadership accountability, breaches of fiduciary duty, and failure to represent the interests of PPA members.

An optical illusion has been making its rounds on the internet -- tripping people out when they are told that there is no human in the picture.

Super Bowl LIX on February 9 in New Orleans is among the most anticipated sporting events of the year. Sony is pulling out all the stops to ensure that every exciting play is captured in incredible detail, whether for the broadcast on FOX or through the still images photographers capture from the sidelines.

A satellite captured a remarkable image showing the summit of Mount Vesuvius peeking through a cloud blanket.

A bride who attempted to shame two photographers for bad photos of her wedding received serious blowback from the internet after it was revealed she wasn't being totally honest.

A grisly photo of hyenas eating a hippo in the Masai Mara has won the 2024 Photographer of the Year Award organized by The Society of Photographers.

The Concorde was the fastest commercial airliner in history with an astonishing cruising speed of roughly 1,354 miles per hour otherwise known as Mach 2.04.

With "once-in-a-lifetime" snow falling in unusual places like Louisiana and Florida, what better time to get out a selection of historic snowman photos for PetaPixel's semi-regular feature: historical Fridays.

Trump's latest official portrait sparked plenty of discussion in the photo community. But exactly who is Daniel Torok? The new Chief White House photographer.

Dramatic before and after photos taken from a fixed-wing aircraft show the terrible damage wrought by the LA wildfires.

"When I saw Blue Velvet for the first time, it changed my life," wrote photographer Gregory Crewdson last week as he reacted to the news that famed director David Lynch had died at age 78.

A rare shrew that has never been photographed before has finally been caught on camera thanks to the efforts of three young researchers.

The Brutalist is coming under criticism for employing artificial intelligence to fill in language gaps and generate a series of architectural blueprints.

Nosferatu by Roert Eggers is cinematography treat. Shot entirely on film, the Dracula movie uses candlelight and firelight to create unnerving scenes that are truly masterful in their execution.

Backers of ShiftCam's SnapSeries Indiegogo campaign claim they were being sidelined so that ShiftCam could double-dip by taking money raised in the campaign and spend it on delivering orders to both retailers and consumers.

A Los Angeles-based photographer has lost his family home in Altadena after the Eaton Fire tore through it and destroyed all of his gear.

Influential director Yorgos Lanthimos has released a book of film photographs all taken on the set of his recent film Kinds of Kindness.

A documentary photographer spent three years traveling the spine of America to explore division in the U.S. by spending time with people he says have been ignored politically, socially, and culturally for decades.

As we close the book on 2024 and peer ahead to what should be an exciting year for new cameras and lenses, it is worth looking closer at one company's performance in 2024: Fujifilm.

Walking through a train station in New Zealand, Greg Annandale looks up to see his photo on an information screen. The Raspberry Pi computer powering the board has gone back to the desktop wallpaper which Annandale shot of a road in Iceland.

As we enjoy the final hours of 2024, it's the perfect time to reflect on an exciting year of photography and reminisce about our favorite stories.

From an uncontacted tribe living deep in the Amazon rainforest to an animal previously believed to be extinct, trail cameras have captured some incredible images in 2024.

At the end of 2023 it was beginning to look like AI images -- a new and novel way of producing pictures -- were an existential threat to photography. By the end of 2024, that threat had been extinguished somewhat.