A trove of historic photographs depicting former US Presidents went to auction over the weekend, selling for staggering sums. What made the images so valuable wasn’t just their famous subjects, but the fact that each photo had been personally signed by its subject.
The auction, held at Swann Galleries in New York on May 07, featured a “remarkable” collection of 126 original photographs…
Annie Leibovitz launched a new prize for emerging photographers, and it's already producing remarkable work
May 13, 2026
If you haven’t heard of the Saltzman-Leibovitz Photography Prize yet, now’s the time to pay attention. Launched in 2025 by New York photographer and philanthropist Lisa Saltzman, through the Saltzman Family Foundation, and created in collaboration with Annie…
One of the biggest concerns about AI is how lazy it appears to be making us. If my children don’t know an answer to a question, then they tell me to “search it up”. They’re mortified if I ask them to find the answer in a book or wait till they can next speak to their…
Lightroom Classic’s Distraction Removal panel can easily get overlooked. But rather than spend time manually cloning out dust spots or unwanted passers-by with the cloning and healing tools or AI Remove tool, take a look at the Distraction Removal panel first.
It uses AI to automate tasks you might previously have done manually – so no more brushing, no more object selection, just one-click…
Lightroom Classic’s masking tools use a combination of AI subject recognition and regular brush and gradient tools to offer huge scope for local adjustments and enhancements. But you can get even more control by using masks in combination – in other words, with…
A new report suggests that about 70% of the photos taken on camera phones are never looked at again, highlighting a growing disconnect between how much we shoot and how little we actually appreciate the images.
While the research focuses on smartphone photography, the…
This photographer took the iconic Oppenheimer portrait using his exclusive Manhattan Project access
May 11, 2026
Some photographers snap picturesque landscapes or evocative portraits; others capture some of the most defining moments in human history. James Edward “Ed” Westcott (1922-2019) was one of the latter.
As one of only three official government photographers assigned to the top-secret Manhattan Project, Westcott photographed not only the development of the atomic bomb – the weapon that would…
Photographs have power – and I was reminded of just how much emotion an image can carry when one of the newest feature photo series to win a Pulitzer instantly brought tears to my eyes. A series of black-and-white photographs by Jahi Chikwendiu, a former The Washington…
Historical narratives, documentary photography, and deeply personal visual storytelling define the longlist for the UK’s leading prize celebrating excellence in photography and moving image publishing.
The Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards published the 2026 longlist, and…
Saher Alghorra picked up his first camera in 2017 and started working as a photojournalist in 2021 – but when I saw the Gaza-based photographer’s award-winning photographs, the images stopped me in my tracks. Alghorra has won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for a series documenting the devastation and starvation in Gaza.
Algorra’s photographs carry tangible emotion as…
