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A conservancy official in New York City was cleaning out an office in late 2017 when they came across two cardboard boxes. Inside were 2,924 color slide photos of NYC parks, shot in 1978 and then forgotten for exactly 40 years.

The photographers were captured by New York Times photographers in parks across the city between August and November 1978 at a time when the press corps was holding a labor strike. Then-Parks Commissioner Gordon Davis decided to hire eight... more

GoPro has announced its fiscal first quarter 2018 financial results, revealing 3% year-on-year unit growth with $202 million in revenue. The figures exceeded analysts' expectations, sending GoPro's stock upward on the news, and company CEO Nick Woodman... more

Investigative reporters often find it difficult or impossible to reach wedding photographers at the center of complaints and controversies. A local TV station recently came up with a clever way of setting up a face-to-face confrontation: it booked and paid for a photo shoot.

Salt Lake City-based NBC affiliate... more

Art has no rules. Right? Wrong! Call me cranky, but I dont like the latest photography trends. I love simple, classic portraiture, and I admire legendary photographers like Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, and Albert Watson. Thats why I put together my 10 Commandments of Portrait Photography.

I used the word Commandment for a reason. Some people will believe, and some dont. And thats okay. This is just the truth as I see it.

Commandment #1: A Portrait Is About the... more

Filmmaker, photographer, and self-professed coffee addict Peter McKinnon has created his own rendition of the infamous selfie stick... on steroids. Meet the $10,000 Selfie Stick. This fun, gimmicky DIY creation is McKinnon's upgrade from the much-maligned (and for a time ubiquitous) pole used to hold a smartphone for self-portrait purposes.

In his video of the project, McKinnon heads to the local hardware store where he purchases bolts and... more

Here’s a helpful 9.5-minute video by CreativeLive in which photographer... more

A study has found "complex benefits" associated with taking one image per day and sharing it with an online community.

The studywhich is co-authored by the University of Sheffield's Dr. Andrew Cox and Lancaster University's Dr. Liz Brewster and published in the Journal Healthis titled "... more

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After recently adding a video chat function, parent company Facebook continues with Instagram's transformation from a mobile image sharing platform into a do-it-all application by adding the ability to pay for things within... more

What do you get when you cross process the most popular negative medium format film on the market? I asked myself that question after having a crossing run-in with Fuji Pro 160, a film that I normally avoid. The photos were out of this world and I wondered what would happen to Kodak Portra 400.

First up, I have to explain that basically there are two kinds of films: Color Negative and Positive. Negatives are the filmstrips that you cannot really look at, as they are inverted and... more

A man in India was mauled to death by a bear on Wednesday after he approached the animal to shoot a selfie.

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