Photography News

How do you get the crew compartment of a spacecraft down to 880 pounds? By shaving away the other 11,120 pounds, of course.

Photographer Nancy Andrews is working toward a vision of Appalachia that breaks free of the poverty-focused visuals that have dominated the news.

A Czech photographer's photo series documents the last days of manual steel and iron making. 

The National Press Photographers' Association (NPPA) has announced its winners for the best in video photojournalism in 2017, as well as announcing finalists for Editor of the Year, Station of the Year and more. Anne Herbst's video above, winner in the 'Spot News' category, depicts the beginning of protests near the Dakota Access Pipeline construction site. The pipeline skirts the boundary of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, with the final portion needing to be installed in a... more (link is external)

If you're a stills shooter moving into the video space, check out these video-oriented lenses (and not all of them will break the bank).

Need a little comic relief? Check out this medical ad spoof for Noventus, a pill that will cure you of the dreaded Gear Acquisition Syndrome (GAS)… as long as you don’t mind a little bit of rectal bleeding and an “atrophied sense of self.”

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Ok, we get it. You shot it with your phone. You brought your DSLR, but you fell into a fountain and waterlogged all your gear. The repair estimate was nearly $2,000, except you went to Thailand and got it fixed for $120. Good thing you had your iPhone.

The quality was so good that your client, a barber named Steve who has never paid for photography, couldnt tell the difference.

When your friend challenged you to take a night shot with your phone, you muttered, bring it on... more (link is external)

Jeremy Cowart (link is external) has done it all: celebrity photographer, app creator, photo teacher, photo book author, lecturer, humanitarian and in the future maybe a hotel owner, where he envisions changing the world in your sleep... more (link is external)

Photographer Zakaria Abdelkafi’s shocking photograph of a French anti-riot policeman set ablaze by a molotov cocktail has quickly spread to every corner of the world. And yesterday, only one day after Abdelkafi captured the photograph, he shared the story behind it.

The photograph was taken during a march for the annual May Day workers’ rally in Paris, and has since appeared on the covers of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and countless online... more (link is external)

Working for free has a huge stigma attached to it, and for good reason. If you don’t know how to work for free properly, you can be taken advantage of and devalue other photographers’ work in the process. That’s why there are, in my opinion, only 3 reasons to work for free.

When you work for free, you need to try and always put yourself in the best possible position to gain something from the work. Whether you’re just putting new work in your portfolio or... more (link is external)

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