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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 size Summer 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

This so-called AI camera makes me so, so angry!

This is a new AI camera that looks like a camera that has a TV aerial stuffed where the lens should be. Called the Paragraphica, is able to take AI-generated pictures using its geolocation, the time, and the weather – without any need for you to input these text prompts. It doesn’t need to see the scene – but uses generative AI to create the image. The control the user has over the result comes from the three dials on top of the camera. “The first dial behaves similarly to the focal length in an optical lens but instead controls…Continue Reading

Learn how to capture the perfect wildlife shot in FREE webinars with industry pros

The Photography and Video Show makes a return with Capture Online – a series of free webinars led by industry experts and professionals in the field of photography. Kicking off the 2023 series is OM System Ambassador and Wildlife Photographer Andrew Fusek-Peters who will be sharing his top tips and insights for capturing that perfect shot. Wildlife photography is a popular genre among nature lovers; it provides a reason to head into the great outdoors and potentially some stunning photos too. While owning one of the best cameras for wildlife photography will help you on your way to achieving great…Continue Reading