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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 …

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.

A photo of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial crossing the horizon silhouetted against the Moon was two years in the making, Michael Meighan tells PetaPixel.

A shadow image of Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz’s racket perfectly hitting the ball has taken the top prize at The World Sports Photography Awards 2026.

When Apple announced Creator Studio, it made sure to almost immediately highlight its selling points: low cost of entry, easy to use, wide breadth of capabilities, and cohesion among apps. Combine that with the education discount, and it's clear Apple is targeting up-and-coming artists.

You might not have heard the album Around the Fur by 1990s alternative metal band Deftones, but there is a good chance you've seen the photo on the cover.

A photographer used a large white background to isolate people and their cars for a project he calls Homo Mobilis.

The winners of the Architecture MasterPrize, which celebrates outstanding architectural photography across exterior and interior work, have been announced.

A Formula 1 photographer who was active in the 1980s and took fabulous photographs of F1 legend Ayrton Senna has had his photos printed as standalone works of art for the first time.

A Nat Geo and BBC cinematographer has put together a beautiful wildlife documentary that tells the story of grizzly bears interacting with red squirrels in Yellowstone.

As PetaPixel reported this week, Asus and GoPro have come together and birthed a co-branded special edition Asus ProArt GoPro Edition laptop that looks to cater to content creators, but is that who is it really for?

National Geographic Your Shot is a global photography community created by Nat Geo for people passionate about wildlife photography. It provides a platform for photographers of all skill levels to share their photos, participate in assignments and challenges, get feedback, and potentially be featured by National Geographic editors.

The Pentax brand has been largely quiet for the last several years. Outside of the Pentax 17 and the K3 Mark III Monochrome, there has not been significant activity. Speaking to PetaPixel, Ricoh President Yasutomo Mori and Kazunobu Saiki, General Manager of Ricoh's Camera Business Division, both promise that Ricoh is committed to the Pentax brand, despite the quiet situation.

It's no secret that Eastman Kodak will license its branding to pretty much anyone and one recent example of this is a series of Kodak-branded storage and memory products. They promise some very impressive performance at a fraction of the cost of major brands, so what's the catch?

Ricoh Imaging approaches the design of its camera series with a very specific set of principles. That’s why the general look, feel, and function of the GR series of cameras hasn’t dramatically changed over the years.

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark has put together an inspiring video of 10 "world-class" photographers sharing advice to younger people.

Photographer Ann Hermes calls her project Local Newsrooms a love letter to community journalism, but it’s also an important documentation of a fast-disappearing industry.

These remarkable historic photos show Soviet Union soldiers hand-feeding polar bears on the Chukchi Peninsula in Far East Siberia.