Photography

Each year, the National Portrait Gallery in London, England, runs its Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize competition (formerly Taylor Wessing), attracting submissions from both professionals and amateurs across the world. At this year’s edition, 3,977 portraits were submitted. The event organizers have now whittled these down to just four finalist images, which will vie for the top prize of…

Skylum is making it very clear that the photographer comes first. That’s right, the company that helped pioneer AI-powered photo editing software, when it launched Luminar Neo (now Luminar) back in 2022, is reaffirming its stance on the relationship between creativity and artificial intelligence. In a press release for the program’s latest update, Skylum’s CEO, Ivan Kutanin, addressed…

When you first glance at this underwater image, it looks like the kind of shot that would take weeks to plan. In fact, the photograph was taken during an unplanned morning dive. No script, no moodboard, no dive team briefing. Just a freediver, an expanse of open water and a huge school of sardines. The result: a churning mass of silver folds itself into a perfect halo around its human subject. No…

“Hurry, quick!” snapped William ‘Bill’ Anders, Apollo 8 lunar module pilot, as the spacecraft window he was looking out of rotated away from Earth. Just moments before, the planet had come into view, majestically rising above the barren, crater-ridden lunar landscape. The Apollo 8 crew, which also included commander Frank Borman and command module pilot Jim Lovell, was completing…