A week after World Press Photo suspended Nick Ut's credit on the famous Napalm Girl photo, big names in photojournalism have come to Ut's defense and attacked The Stringer and the people behind it for a perceived lack of transparency. [Read More]
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Photographer Nick Ut was honored last night at Visa pour l'Image, the International Festival of Photojournalism, in France. The honor came just days after the news broke that Netflix acquired The Stringer, the explosive documentary that alleges Ut did not capture "The Terror of War," one of the most famous photos in history.
World Press Photo has suspended Nick Ut's authorship of Napalm Girl after a documentary claimed that he did not take the famous photo. [Read More]
World Press Photo apologized for its controversial decision to present two award-winning images captured by two different photographers as a thematic pair. One of the images showed a six-year-old Ukrainian child suffering from panic attacks following Russian artillery shelling, while the other showed a wounded pro-Russian militant. [Read More]
The Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP) is officially oppsing the inclusion of Russian photographer, Mary Gelman, called "Maria" in some publications, as part of the jury for the World Press Photo 2024 competition. [Read More]
After World Press Photo announced its finalists this year, Iranian photographer Solmaz Daryani came forward and accused German photographer Maximilian Mann of plagiarizing photos from her personal project for his environmental photos of Lake Urmia in Iran.
This past weekend, photojournalist Barbara Haddock Taylor captured an extraordinary image of a flaming church steeple in Baltimore crashing to the ground. We caught up with Taylor to find out more about how she captured such an arresting moment in time.