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To highlight human destruction of animal habitats in East Africa, photographer Nick Brandt shot giant panoramas of life-size animal prints in their former habitats. The project is titled... more

In the spring of 2014, I started a long-term photography project focused on Syrian refugee children. I traveled through Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon and photographed children who fled Syria since the war started.

I interviewed them in the presence of their parents or guardians and then photographed them both digitally and with Impossible Project instant film. The project brought me through makeshift dwellings, apartments, and refugee camps across the... more

Heres episode 55 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. You can also download the MP3 directlyand... more

Venus LAOWA 15mm F4 Wide Angle Macro lens
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Chinese company Venus Optics (Anhui ChangGeng Optical Technology Company Ltd.) is a new lens and camera accessory manufacturer started by a group of macro photography enthusiasts who design... more

Here’s Instagram’s latest celebrity: Juji the giant dog. His owner Chris Cline is making waves by using Photoshop to turn him into a giant fluffy best friend.

Since starting his Instagram account over 2,000 photos ago, the Minnesota-based Cline... more

Todays flash market offers a wide variety of options for anyone looking to dip a toe in the off-camera flash pool. While there are plenty of things to consider while shopping for a speedlight, one factor that doesnt always receive the most attention is build quality.

Editor’s note: This teardown was conducted by one of the companies in question, so there will obviously be bias. It’s not an impartial look, but it’... more

Instagram is known as a place where people use photos to flaunt their lifestyles, both real and fake. 50 Cent may be one of the biggest names to do so on the “fake” side: he claims he’s broke and that he takes photos of fake money for marketing reasons.

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Here’s a 3-minute video that explores why you almost never see portraits of smiling people from the early days of photography.

Vox boils everything down to a few main points:

1. Early Camera Technology

The... more

In February 2016, Fujifilm announced the end of its last peel-apart instant film,... more

Part of what can make an image both visually appealing and conceptually interesting is the connection between its different parts. An image is a whole made of differentiable elements, and these elements can either be separate or have a variety of relations between them. To make an image which is indeed a whole and not just different layers on top of each other, a photographer needs to make the layers (or elements) communicate with each other. But how? One way, which I will detail here, is... more

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