Earlier today photojournalist Barry Gutierrez made a photo of Tom Sullivan as he came running over to the media waving a black and white photo of his son Alex and asking frantically if anyone had seen him. The photo Gutierrez made of Sullivan has now been broadcast around the world and quickly become an important window into the heart of an unfolding tragedy. It’s also become an example of the value that trained photojournalists like Gutierrez provide during events like these.
The photographs of Fritz Goro highlight the beautiful, strange, amusing and poignant within the realm of science. The German-born Goro spent four decades as a photographer for LIFE magazine. He invented macrophotography and many other techniques to capture his unique subjects.
At this year’s Olympic games, Reuters, in addition to its army of traditional photographers, will have 11 robots set up in places no shooter would otherwise be able to get.
What if you could turn Instagram filters into lenses for your DSLR? Lensbaby, a Portland, Oregon, startup that’s bent on getting customers more engaged in the art of photography, has done exactly that.
For two decades Jacqueline Hassink has been documenting the seats of power. Literally. Her photos of corporate board rooms from across the world give viewers a rare glimpse into the places where the most important players in the global economy hold court.
When Catherine Chalmers looks at leaf cutter ants, she sees Facebook; when she sees cockroaches, she sees suburban families. Her science-inspired art can be beautiful and disgusting at the same time, and she hopes it makes viewers question how we think of other animals.
At first glance, Mary Lydecker’s colorful, kitsch postcards are seemingly innocuous, but look again and you’ll peer upon her world of dystopian leisure trips.
Each summer since 1970, tucked away in a beautiful French medieval town, the Recontes d’Arles exhibition has celebrated the life of photography. While it’s been a favorite stop on the photo festival circuit for editors and photographers in the past, this year’s exhibition was unrealized and, at best, disjointed.
Philip Scott Andrews’ ongoing photo series Last Days documents the end of NASA’s space shuttle program. For three years Andrews has had unprecedented access to Cape Canaveral and he’s made good use of it by capturing a side of this facility the public is not used to seeing.
Sony’s new A57 is aimed at serious enthusiasts who are more interested in the outcome than the process. The camera delivers some high-powered DSLR features in a package that’s intuitive enough for less-experienced shooters. And at a print-worthy 16.1-megapixels, it won’t be fighting for supremacy only in Facebook photo galleries.
Edward Burtynsky’s photos from his Oil series are best viewed as enormous prints on a gallery wall, but the iPad version makes up for what is loses in scale and tactility with special commentary, videos and, most of all, price.
Inside the White Sea Biological Station is an unlikely photo studio where Alexander Semenov, 25, is sharing his stunning photographs of arctic sea creatures with the global online community.
The Nokia 808 PureView is captivating because of one feature, and one feature alone: the on-board 41-megapixel camera. Everything else about it is a disaster.
It’s difficult to get noticed in the world photography. Meetings, handshakes, business cards, portfolio reviews, follow-up e-mails and thank-you cards create a fog of noise that’s almost impossible to cut through. That’s why photographer and adjunct professor at Virginia Commonwealth Univeristy Gordon Stettinius developed his own idiosyncratic way of staying in the memory – by sending intentionally bad 8x10s of himself, in character, as follow-ups to industry professionals.
Photographer Thilde Jensen left everything behind in New York City, including her marriage, to seek an environment free of the chemicals and radiation that were making her sick. On her journey she met others like her and documented them in a project she calls Canaries.
Photo mags on the iPhone struggle with the fact that photos and creative page layouts look great when they’re big and the phone’s screen is relatively small. Viewing a large amount of content through a limited window can be frustrating and disorienting. That’s why we like the British Journal of Photography iPhone app that was released today.
Soldiers returning from war face huge obstacles getting back into civilian life: The loss of friends, limbs, minds and perhaps innocence, too, take their toll. As a supplement to traditional therapies for these issues, artist Monica Haller thinks photography and art can play a big role in a vet’s recovery.
Elegant is not the first word that comes to mind when photographers think of most camera bags. Boring is more like it. The Kickstarter-funded bags offered by Langly change all that.
Recently, Burn Magazine announced Matt Lutton, a Belgrade-based U.S. photographer, as the winner of the Emerging Photography Fund for 2012. We talked to Lutton about the origins of the work, the complex politics of the region and what he plans to do with the $10,000 award.
A new camera concept, called Iris, aims to use eye-tracking technology and biometric detection to provide an impressively frictionless device for taking photos.
Nothing beats flipping through a big book of gorgeous photos printed on high-grade card stock, but The Bastards Book of Photography released this week, shows that a completely digital existence has its advantages as well.
Henry Hargeaves, a Brooklyn-based New Zealander, recently shocked audiences with his photos of deep-fried gadgets like the iPod, Mac Book, Gameboy and iPad. But all is not quite as it seems.
In her book Big Sister, photographer Hana Jakrlova explores an internet sex club in Prague where the clients get to have sex for free as long as they agree to let their exploits be filmed and broadcast live across the web.
Can’t Forget Motor City takes a rare photo tour of Detroit that focuses on people and nuance rather than crumbling buildings.
Photographer Billy Hunt’s scream-activated photo booth makes awesomely silly portraits.
