Herman Heukels’ photographs of Jewish people being rounded up in Amsterdam in 1943 are some of the strongest visual evidence used by historians to illustrate the Holocaust in the Netherlands.
102,000 Jewish Dutch people died in the Holocaust, of an estimated 140,000 population. And the haunting, but important images, have been used in books and films, often to educate people on the…
Sigma has posted a YouTube Premiere video to its channel teasing a new product presentation for August 8th at
As is typical for these kinds of teasers from Sigma, no additional details have been provided at this time. The only notable detail from the video’s description is…
Instagram has added a new “Dual” camera feature — seemingly in a bid to copy photo-sharing app BeReal which soared to the number one spot in the U.S. on Apple’s App Store charts this week.
The new “Dual” camera feature allows users to record content…
Annie Lebowitz’s latest Vogue photo shoot of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena has sparked condemnation with many feeling the article was inappropriate amid the Russian invasion.
The presidential couple featured in a digital edition of the fashion magazine which focused mainly on Olena, titled “Portrait of Bravery: Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska.”…
New research has revealed the most famous photographs of all time — with NASA’s iconic “Man on the Moon” photo from 1969’s Apollo 11 mission topping the list.
For the study, photo book and printing company Inkifi used a reverse image search to show the…
Video: Learn how Kodak develops and applies light-sensitive coating to its film (in the dark!)
July 29, 2022
Last year, Destin Sandlin of the YouTube channel Smarter Every Day showed the science behind film development. Sandlin explained how photographic film is constructed, exposed, and developed. Sandlin discussed the film’s chemical structure and then shot some…
Samyang, which also goes under the Rokinon brand name, has announced the release of a second-generation Rokinon 85mm F1.4 AF lens for Sony E-mount camera systems.
The lens is constructed of 11 elements in eight groups, including four high-refractive elements and one extra-low dispersion element. This appears, as least based on the specifications, to be the same optical formula used in its…
A newly-released artificial intelligence (AI) model called the “Generative Facial Prior” (GFP-GAN) can repair most old photographs in mere seconds, and it can do it for free.
Anyone who has old photographs of their families and friends that have not held up…
Tamron has announced a new 50-400mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III VC VXD for Sony E-mount full-frame mirrorless cameras which is expected to be available from this fall.
The versatile ultra-telephoto zoom lens will “create an entirely new category for a high-performance…
Muntaka Chasant
Photographer Muntaka Chasant has documented thousands of washed-up clothes on a beach in Africa, laying bare the environmental impact of fast fashion.
Chasant tells Petapixel that he took a “beating” from the waves in Ghana to capture the powerful and thought-provoking photographs.
“I had to step in the water to capture most of the scenes which gave me a…
