News in pictures: Thursday April 20, 2023

Canoeists are framed by the tail of a breaching whale in Antarctica. The photographer, from California, writes: “It was probably a once-in-a-lifetime moment” JIAHONG ZENG/SOLENT NEWSA model wears a majestic floral coronation cloak designed by Helen James, the award-winning Harrogate-based florist, which will be the centrepiece of this week’s Harrogate Spring Flower Show TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES GLOSSOPDennis Hong, a professor of mechanical engineering at UCLA in California, tests the stability of the humanoid robot Artemis. It stands at 4ft 8in and can run, jump and stay on its feet when shoved. Researchers say that at 6.9ft per second…Continue Reading

Interior Photographers London | Elephant Studios

Elephant Studios, London South Bank University (LSBU) | Interior Photographers London | Commercial Building Photographer LondonCommercials Architecture InteriorsMichael Grade opens LSBU Elephant Studios | Interior Photographers LondonThe new Elephant Studios created by London South Bank University (LSBU) for News and Broadcast students has been acclaimed as a professional standard facility in Southwark. All departments and facilities are found in a live broadcast studio providing students with a realistic environment complete with the latest equipment.The newsroom developed for the journalism courses has 42″ overhead displays, audio and 80 channel mixers and a News Synergy Workstation. Next door the…Continue Reading

Friday Five: Our Pick of Weekly Photo News for Jan. 16-20

In our new column, Friday Five, we highlight some of the latest photo news, images and features that you may have missed the first time. Here are some intriguing and important photo news items that caught our eye, as first featured on DIY Photography, PopPhoto, Petapixel, The British Journal of Photography and Digital Camera World. Weekly Photo News Roundup for January 16-20, 2023 FB and IG told to Stop Censoring Female Nipples by Advisory Board“Free the Nipple” is a campaign that initially began in 2012, after many photographers and artists complained about the “draconian policies” held by Facebook and Instagram…Continue Reading

Your Saskatchewan photo of the day: July 2023

Descrease article font size Increase article font sizeSummer is here! People are taking beautiful pictures across the prairies.We want to see the wonderful photos you capture from all over the province. Each day, Global Saskatoon and Global Regina feature a viewer-submitted photo for the Your Saskatchewan photo of the day. It is also highlighted on Global News Morning, Global News at 5, Global News at 6 and Global News at 10. Please email us if you have a picture to submit for Your Saskatchewan. Photos should be at least 920 pixels wide and in jpeg format. Here is…Continue Reading

YEAs to host guest lecture on Ukrainian photography during Soviet censorship

The Young European Ambassadors will be hosting an online guest lecture and Q&A on the Kharkiv School of Photography’s experience subverting ideology through art. The event will take place this Thursday, 13 July, at 7PM CET. Guest speaker Oleksandra Osadcha is a visual art researcher, curator, and current board member of the Museum of the Kharkiv School of Photography. From 2017-2022 she was a senior lecturer at the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture. She will discuss the important role that the Kharkiv school of photography has played in the political and artistic history of Ukraine. The lecture will cover the…Continue Reading

Photography book celebrating early days of King Charles III’s reign is published

Monarch in the Making offers a behind-the-scenes look at preparations for the coronation and follows Charles during his early days as King (PA Wire)The Royal Collection Trust is releasing a commemorative book of behind-the-scenes photos showing King Charles III’s ascent to the throne as well as his first months as King. A Monarch in the Making: From Accession to Coronation will also show Charles taking part in state visits alongside Queen Camilla. Charles III and Camilla were crowned on May 6 at Westminster Abbey but officially became King and Queen from the moment the former Queen died on September…Continue Reading

Goats and Sodas: NPR

Sometimes a (camera’s) eye in the sky can cast new light on the world we live in – highlighting changes or celebrating beauty we might be oblivious to on ground level. And that’s what you’ll see in the winners of this year’s Drone Photo Award winners. From a bird’s eye view, a bright yellow rice field in Bangladesh turns into a symmetrical pattern, a precisely-designed Polish playground looks like a mosaic of precious stones and a holy religious tradition amid the crumbles of a war-ravaged city in Syria conjures up both sorrow and holiness. The photography competition, now in its…Continue Reading

My career as a travel photographer is tough enough, but influencers made it worse!

Before I felt the wrath of traveling photographers everywhere, I’d like to frame the title and all the words that follow. Photography is a tough business, regardless of the genre you work in. Maybe you work in multiple genres, like almost all the photographers I know, dabbling here and there alongside a primary field. Then there is the top 5% in this world, who aren’t really photographers at all, but identify as “travel influencers,” and can usually be found yelling down a camera lens at any given moment.Which brings me onto life as a working travel photographer. Many who…Continue Reading