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Waterworks by Stanley Greenberg is a sweeping photographic portrait of New York City’s water system, featuring 362 black and white images made between 1992 and 2024.

Two New Jersey photographers have paid homage to their hometown by going to great lengths to recreate a historic photo using the same rotating panoramic camera the original photographers used all the way back in 1910.

When I was sent a new 35mm film to try out called Harman Switch Azure, my brain went: 'It's a blue film, so I'm going to shoot my local soccer team, whose nickname is Blues.' Makes perfect sense? Maybe not.

A wildflower superbloom has swept Death Valley for the first time in 10 years and photographer Elliot McGucken made the long drive from Yellowstone to California to see the rare phenomenon.

Not long after setting off from the Hawaiian coast, underwater photographer John Kowitz and his team spotted two humpback whales and sent a drone up to scope them out -- they immediately realized something was terribly wrong.

You can make a pinhole camera out of just about anything -- as an Italian photographer recently proved by building one from pasta. Continuing that playful nod to culinary heritage via the medium of photography, Martin Cheung has been creating images with a Chinese roast duck as his camera.

High Fashion is a photography series by Pawel Jaszczuk showing drunk Japanese businessmen sleeping on the streets of Tokyo.

Today marks the 21st annual International Polar Bear Day and to mark it, PetaPixel spoke to wildlife photographer Daniel Cox.

After there was some misleading information online over what exactly the upcoming planetary alignment will look like, astrophotographer Josh Dury has already managed to capture all six planets ahead of the main event on February 28.

Many exceptional photographers captured jaw-dropping photos of world-class athletes performing incredible feats at the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. In most cases, these photographers used the expected equipment, the latest full-frame mirrorless cameras and telephoto lenses. However, a select group of Getty Images photographers took a very different approach, and documented the Winter Olympics with thermal, infrared, and vintage film cameras, and using unique processing techniques.

After a film lab technician developed a 70-year-old roll of film showing a group of skiers in post-war Switzerland, he was contacted by a man who had an even older roll of undeveloped film.

Earlier this month, the Seattle Seahawks bested the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LX at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California. It is one of the biggest sporting events in the world, and the Seahawks' team photographer, Rod Mar, was there to capture all the action, and ultimately, the Seahawks' elation.

For his new show, The Last Dyes, William Eggleston and his team used up the last remaining dye-transfer materials to make new prints of the iconic photographer's work from the 1970s.

Japanese company BBL offers a special lens modification service that promises to smooth out lens bokeh and reduce harsh edges in out-of-focus areas.

What if creating a truly unique landscape photograph isn’t about finding somewhere no one has ever stood, nor simply revisiting the places everyone knows, but about noticing the extraordinary in both?

Photographers are starting to see the real-world effects of Big Tech's bottomless hunger for AI innovation: storage prices haven't been this high in years.

A new book presents large-format photographs of some of the most beautifully designed cocktail bars around the world.

There was a time when a third of the American public eagerly awaited the weekly delivery of Life magazine. And now a gallery in New York is celebrating the photojournalism that helped Life become a sensation.

As a warning to others, a Redditor has told a disturbing story of a photographer who chased an owl through a field just so she could get the shot she wanted.

62 years ago this week, Beatlemania was gripping the United States. The band from Liverpool was topping the Billboard Hot 100 and fresh off playing their first TV appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, which was watched by a staggering 73 million people -- 34 percent of the population -- the Beatles arrived in Washington, D.C. for their first concert on February 11, 1964.

Most people dread receiving their monthly electric bill. For a Colorado Springs man named Thomas, however, receiving his first utility statement in his own name was cause for celebration. After six years living in a tent on the streets, Thomas now has an apartment, a job, and a piece of mail worth framing. Through a decade of work with Springs Rescue Mission, Thomas’ is just one of the many stories of transformation that photographer Aaron Anderson has documented in an ongoing project capturing hope and recovery.

No matter what you call it, mid-range, enthusiast, or semi-pro, this segment of mid-priced full-frame cameras has never been as competitive or exciting. Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, and Sony have all recently released cameras in this tier, and each has taken a different approach to image sensor technology and to balancing photo and video performance. Which one is best? That's what we're here to find out. But one thing is for sure, it's going to be one heck of a showdown.

Australian photographer Ross Gudgeon has won the grand prize at Close-up Photographer of the Year 7 for Fractal Forest, an extraordinary underwater image photographed inside a cauliflower soft coral in the Lembeh Strait, Indonesia. The image earned Gudgeon the competition’s top award and a £2,500 ($3,400) prize.

Albert Watson is one of photography’s great image-makers. For more than five decades, his work has moved effortlessly between portraiture, fashion, fine art, and landscape. His work has now been brought together in a definitive monograph titled Albert Watson. Kaos.

Photography is of vital importance to NASA. The space agency provides all astronauts with plenty of Nikon Z9s and an array of different lenses, encouraging them to capture what they see.

The cinematographer behind One Battle After Another revealed how he filmed the movie's breathtaking car chase scene and how he pushed the VistaVision format to its limits.

From 1979 to 1984, famed fashion photographer Richard Avedon traveled to 21 states with an 8 x 10 large format Deardorff camera and a white backdrop to capture the portraits of working-class America.

The winning images from the 2025 Travel Photographer of the Year awards (TPOTY) have been revealed. Athanasios Maloukos' atmospheric photos of the Sema ceremony in Turkey and the Holy Week in Zamora, Spain, impressed the judges enough to see him crowned overall winner.

In a world where AI can imitate high-quality photography, nature magazine editors must be more vigilant than ever before -- as is the case for one publication that came close to putting an AI-generated picture on its front cover.

From zombie apocalypse movies to alien TV shows, there is a morbid obsession with what it would be like if humans vanished from the Earth.

Gen Z is pining for the pink-hued Instagram filters and relaxed photo aesthetic of 2016, part of a growing trend that younger users associate with a simpler, less algorithm-driven internet.

Photojournalist John Abernathy was tackled by ICE agents in Minneapolis last week and his last-ditch effort to save his camera was successful thanks to fellow photographer Pierre Lavie, who captured Abernathy's camera-saving toss in a now-viral image. Lavie's powerful portrait reflects the importance of photojournalism, captures the risks photographers face in the field, and, to the benefit of Leica, shows how rugged the company's cameras are.

In 2010, Vampire Weekend released their second studio album Contra -- one of the band's most influential and critically acclaimed records. But the striking polaroid photograph on its cover and the tangled story behind it are almost as famous as the record itself.

While most film shooters have to wait days, weeks, and sometimes even months to get their film back from the lab, Miles Myerscough-Harris of Expired Film Club recently shot an NFL game and posted the photos on Instagram before the game ended.

When Eric Enstrom entered his photograph of Charles Wilden sitting at a table with his head bowed into a Minnesota photo contest, it lost because the judges thought it didn't make enough use of light.