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Smiling is a relatively recent phenomenon in the history of photography. If you take a look at photos from many decades ago, people commonly wore stoic expressions on their faces and portraits were a much more serious affair.

Researchers at UC Berkeley recently crunched through an enormous trove of high school yearbook photos to show how smiling and portraits have evolved... more

Billy and Marc from The Fuji Guys recently paid a visit to the Fujifilm factory in Sendai, Japan, where different pieces of kit in the Fujifilm lineup are put together. The 8-minute video above is a behind-the-scenes tour that shows how the new... more

Yunghi Kim, a decorated photojournalist and 20 year member of Contact Press Images, is bringing... more

Samsung’s rumored shuttering of its camera business looks like it’s continuing to play out. After pulling out of the camera market in Germany earlier this month, the company is now saying that it’s ditching the UK as well.

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Back in July, we shared an eye-popping roundup of some of the best space photos captured by NASA’s Cassini space probe. If you’re the type that enjoys quantity over quality, here’s a nearly 4-hour-long rapid-fire slideshow that contains 341,805 images — every single photo captured by the probe from between February 6, 2004 and September 15, 2015.

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Heres episode 24 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. You can also download the MP3 directly and... more

Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands national museum dedicated to arts and history in Amsterdam, recently launched a new campaign called “The Big Draw.” It’s an effort to get museum visitors to ditch cameras and simple snapshots in favor of drawing the artworks in order to more fully... more

In early 1950s, Brazilian novelist Guimares Rosa went to a 10 days journey with 8 native cowboys along 150 miles in Minas Gerais, resulting in one of most important works of Brazilian literature, “The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956)”. After more than 60 years I decided to follow his path based in this journey, and also the scenario described by Riobaldo in all his adventures of the book.

This was the trip I was unconsciously planning ever since I first read the... more

This category has something for everyone, whether it's ultra-high resolution, 4K video, high dynamic range, and super-fast burst rates. For the enthusiast or pro who refuse to compromise, here's a look at cameras priced over $2000.  Read more

Nailing the perfect shot sometimes requires a lot of patience. Scottish photographer Alan McFadyen would know: he spent an estimated 6 years, 4,200 hours, and 720,000 exposures trying to nail the perfect symmetrical shot of a kingfisher diving into its reflection.

McFadyen spent most of his career as a fisherman before a nasty back injury forced him to pick up a camera instead. He has been doing wildlife photography since 2009.

Growing up, McFadyen used to visit a lake... more

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