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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.

A photographer who usually reserves her lens for dogs embarked on a project focusing on rescue cats and their stories.

For the first time in its 25-year history, the UNICEF Photo of the Year prize has been shared by two photographers covering different sides of the same conflict.

For many photographers, when the weather outside hits negative cold temperatures it's a sign to stay indoors and hope that conditions improve.

These rare mugshots taken in December 1872 show Victorian thieves locked up at Christmas for seemingly trivial crimes such as stealing lumps of coal.

The Old City of Jerusalem is a place quite unlike anywhere else on Earth. A focal point for all three Abrahamic religions, the narrow streets made out of stone bustle with Christians, Muslims, and Jews.

In the dark and dreary English winter, commuters huddle on London Underground platforms before taking a long, often wet walk through the city or boarding a bus that instantly fogs up when passengers climb on.

Film has long been considered a dying art since the rise of digital photography, with what seemed like nothing but bad news for many years. 2024, though, saw a welcomed resurgence of this analog medium. It has been a busy and fantastic year for analog photography.

It has been a fantastic year for Sigma. While the company did not launch any new cameras, Sigma released six superb new lenses.

The camera operators for Gladiator II had to dress as Roman soldiers to align with director Ridley Scott's immersive filming style.

Photographers often use this time of year to reflect on their work and maybe share some of the best shots they've taken in the past 12 months. But one wildlife photographer has taken the unusual step of sharing his "worst" photos of 2024.

A photographer had a powerful experience with a whale who swam up close allowing her to capture a close-up photo of the humpback's eye.

Julian Lennon, the son of former Beatle John, is best known for his music career that began in the 1980s, but he is also an accomplished photographer reflected in a new retrospective Life's Fragile Moments.

A Shutterstock director has exclusively told PetaPixel that photographers have a "vital role" to play in the future of AI technology.

A photographer perfectly recreated a location from the Star Wars universe by using a playset and some clever lighting.

A historic set of previously unseen photos showing homemade windmills in Nebraska have been digitized from the U.S. National Archive.

The winner of the Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition 2024 has been announced with an image of a shark hunt form above taking home the top prize.

Photographer Dan Martland is no stranger to capturing New York City. But this summer he scored a shot that he doesn't think he'll ever be able to top.

Last week, FilmNeverDie announced that its Kickstarter-backed Nana 35mm film camera was available for purchase worldwide. PetaPixel readers pointed out that the press materials that accompanied that announcement were incomplete and worth greater scrutiny. We agreed.

Roger Fenton is best known for Valley of the Shadow of Death, one of the oldest-known photos depicting war. His relatively short 10-year photography career sparked accusations that he was a government propagandist while simultaneously being praised as one of the medium's pioneers.

A photographer has shared a series of dramatic photos showing volcanic lava engulfing areas around the Blue Lagoon in Iceland after the Sundhnúka crater erupted.

A photo restorer breathed fresh life into a forgotten zoo by colorizing a set of black-and-white photos from the 1940s.

Some advertising photographers equate the degree of stress during a high-profile shoot as a metric of their skill as a photographer: If you’re stressed, then perhaps you were unprepared or lacked knowledge, they might say. I don’t think that’s always the case, as sometimes the extreme challenge of a complicated image requires stress to realize its full creative potential.

Canadian Andrew Mielzynski has been crowned International Landscape Photographer of the Year 2024.

A wedding photographer filmed the moment she was forced to become the "bad guy" and tell guests to put their phones away during the ceremony.

Over a period of a few months, photographer Bryce Way traipsed around Los Angeles capturing the city's diverse beauty.

"I really want to get the light meter fixed," my dad told me once, years ago. "It's been hard, I don't think they make the parts anymore." By the late 2010s, my dad had given up on ever getting his Nikon Photomic FTn ever working again. This past summer, though, his beloved camera was brought back from the brink.

Earlier this year, my father passed away and left me with his beloved Nikon F and Photomic FTn. After getting it repaired, I found myself in love with the analog process again and have been revisiting cameras I had long since dismissed. Suddenly, I was confronted with Nikon cameras I had never seen or -- in some cases -- never heard of before.