Photographing the 10 Year Anniversary of Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Accident
On March 11, 2011, the 4th largest earthquake since the advent of modern record-keeping struck off the coast of Japan generating a tsunami that inundated…
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AI “Deep Nostalgia” Images Have Deep Limitations
News outlets and social media accounts have been overrun with old photos that have been animated with MyHeritage's "Deep Nostalgia" feature, an AI-based deep learning…
WATCH: The Social Effects of Photography with Black Women Photographers
Photography has long been a medium used to drive social and cultural change. The impact of documentary photography is immeasurable as both new and historic…
Who Should Own Photos of Enslaved People?
In 1976 while rummaging through an attic of Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in search of old museum publications, editorial assistant Lorna Condon…
Joe Biden Is President but Bernie Sanders Remains Meme Lord
Yesterday we said goodbye to 45 and hello to 46. And although the 2021 inauguration of President Joe Biden necessitated stricter security measures and a…
The Curious Society Wants to Print a New Photojournalism Magazine
A few weeks ago, veteran photojournalist Kenneth Jarecke announced the creation of The Curious Society, a membership-based, quarterly print publication for contemporary photojournalism. While some…
Johnny Depp Plays Photographer W. Eugene Smith in “Minamata”
Deadline reports that MGM has acquired the rights for the Johnny Depp drama "Minamata" – chronicling W. Eugene Smith's last photo essay on the horrific…
The Photography Community Joins Forces to Get Out the Vote
An anxiety-ridden nation trepidatiously waits as November 3rd and the 59th presidential election rapidly approaches. And with so many absentee ballots already dropped off in…
How Are Politicians Retouching Their Photos in 2020?
Although photographic technology allows for the literal capture of light (and arguably, reality), humans have ironically been trying to alter their captured appearance almost since…