Photography

It’s over a century since the RMS Titanic sank in the North Atlantic, on April 15 1912, after striking an iceberg during its maiden voyage that resulted in the loss of over 1,500 lives. And yet, this tragedy still has a hold over our collective consciousness. So much so, that even this much-circulated photo of a boy selling a newspaper announcing it will be instantly recognizable to…

The street photography of Martin Parr was always divisive. In the mid-1980s, many residents of New Brighton, a seaside resort on the Wirral in Merseyside, England, believed his work was ridiculing them. But time, it seems, heals all wounds. Now, less than a year on from his death, the town is fundraising to put a giant tribute to him on its seafront. New Brighton Creative Futures, a community arts…

The filter that lives on my favorite camera lens a majority of the time is a diffusion filter, which gives light sources a glow that feels like a retro film lens. But now a new slider from Adobe is mimicking that retro effect – and it’s a new launch hidden inside Adobe Camera RAW. While Photoshop got a major announcement last week with a new light adjustment layer, the new update to Adobe…

Thirty years ago, Leonard Jefferson took what turned out to be the last known photo of rapper Tupac Shakur. Jefferson is now back in the news, as a witness in the trial of Duane “Keffe D” Davis, who stands accused of Shakur’s murder. And you don’t necessarily have to be a fan of hip-hop to find the details of his photograph fascinating. Jefferson, for one, wasn’t a…