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Nadia Camera Rates Photos As You Shoot
We’ve already got plenty of gadgets designed to facilitate photography: there’s auto-focus, face detection, and some crazy features in Photoshop that can effortlessly add and remove entire elements...
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Facial Recognition May Get Really Creepy Really Soon
Facial recognition features are appearing in everything from cameras to photo-sharing sites, but have you thought about the different security and privacy concerns it introduces? Fast Company has...
View ArticleA Commercial for Fotoshop by Adobé
Filmmaker Jesse Rosten created this satirical commercial for Fotoshop by Adobé with the tagline “This commercial isn’t real, neither are society’s standards of beauty.” It’s a humorous response to how...
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Is the World Ready for Wearable Cameras (Or Cyborgs)?
Professor and self-proclaimed cyborg Steve Mann created an eye and memory-aid device he calls the EyeTap Digital Glass. The EyeTap, worn by Mann above on the left, is a wearable device that is similar...
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How Wearable “Sousveillance” Cameras Will Transform Our Society
Have you heard of the term sousveillance? It’s the inverse of surveillance: instead of a camera pointed at individuals, individuals wear their own cameras on themselves to document their activities....
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Don’t Let Photographers Look Down On You Because You Are Young
Since the moment I walked into Milford Photo looking to buy a professional camera in the winter of 2011, I have been exposed to constant judgment for being a rich, stupid and spoiled 13-year-old who...
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Beautiful Portraits of Black Dogs Help these Oft-Overlooked Pets Find a Home
As the owner of an extremely cute rescue puppy from my local humane society, I can attest to how wonderful it is to be able to rescue a pet whose life was previously in danger for some reason or...
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Opinion: Lomography, an Alternative Perspective on Traditional Photo Standards
Lomography began as an art movement in the early 1990s after a group of Viennese students discovered the LC-A, a camera manufactured by Russian imaging company LOMO. The fixed lens 32mm f/2.8 compact...
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Watch as Children Describe What They See in Luxury Fashion Photos
Artist Yolanda Dominguez believes that there is something wrong with the way women are portrayed in fashion photographs. For her recent project titled Ninos vs Moda (“Children vs Fashion”), she asked...
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Why Street Photography Matters in 2017
“Street photography is dead”, declare forum threads and thinkpieces far and wide. The Internet and phone cameras have watered the quality down. The uniformity of the modern world means nothing is...
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Study Finds People Like Taking Selfies but Not Looking at Them
A small study out of Europe is confirming what many of us probably knew intuitively already: while plenty of people love taking their own selfies, most people have no interest in looking at anybody...
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How Black People in the 19th Century Used Photography as a Tool for Social...
Frederick Douglass is perhaps best known as an abolitionist and intellectual. But he was also the most photographed American of the 19th century. And he encouraged the use of photography to promote...
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How Photography Can Build Peace and Justice in War-Torn Communities
It’s not easy for most people to think about what peace and justice mean to them, or how to express it. But that’s what we ask people in war-torn communities to do, all around the world. One place we...
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Dark Photo Series Satirizes Technology’s Impact on Society
Using conceptual and satirical photographs, a Swedish artist illustrates what he sees as the dark side of society's relationship with technology. [Read More]
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Portraits of Americans in the Intimacy of Their Bedrooms
Photographer Barbara Peacock began capturing strangers in their bedrooms, eventually developing the project into an in-depth portrait of American people today. [Read More]
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California Man Uses Billboards to Show Photos of the State’s Decline
A photographer has paid to put his own images of Californian decline on giant billboards, focusing on the state's problems with wildfire, drought, and housing. [Read More]
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Photographer Follows Pregnant Homeless Woman in LA Over 4 Years
The Los Angeles Times recently published an article that was over four years in the making, documenting the trials and tribulations of a pregnant homeless woman as she prepared for the birth of her...
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Photographer’s ‘Street People’ Series Aims to Show America the Plight of the...
For years, street photographer Irving Greines avoided documenting homeless people feeling that taking photos is intrusive and exploitative. Eventually, though, he felt compelled to document the growing...
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