Taken in September of 1942, this captivating collection of black and white photographs show the New York Times in production during the height of World War II. The photographs were created as part of the U.
S Office of War Information’s effort to document home front activities during the war. They were made by then 30-year-old […]. petapixel.com
Dibakar Roy, from Kolkata, India, uses the power of remarkable composition thanks to shadows, patterns, subjects, and perspective to take this seemingly ordinary part of everyday life for farmers into the extraordinary. petapixel.com »
2021-06-22 18:32
Photographer Kate Chebotareva reimagines her favorite pop-art masterpieces by Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana and other famous artists. She uploads her works to stock photography websites. Kate is based in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. boredpanda.com »
2017-03-30 12:01
Night sky photography—the milky way, star trails, that sort of thing—usually means a decent camera and a nice bright lens. But photographer Daniel Stein has managed to make it work using just a Polaroid SX-70 and some Impossible Project IP600 film. petapixel.com »
2017-01-13 21:31
Image sharing site Dronestagram is no Instagram, with its 600 Million users, but the drone-specific social network does contain some of the best aerial photography on the Internet. And today, they revealed their 20 best drone photos of 2016. petapixel.com »
2016-12-19 23:25
Hi! My name is Catalina and I'm an amateur photographer based in Bucharest, Romania. I love to travel and capture the beauty I see around the world, but there's always something special about the views back home. boredpanda.com »
2016-12-13 13:29
Forget those dinky HD “cameras” attached to tiny quadcopter “drones,” if you want to capture really amazing aerial shots, you have to do what Polish photographer Miron Bogacki did: build your own heavy-duty octocopter and slap a high-end full-frame DSLR on that bad boy. petapixel.com »
2016-11-03 01:45
While living in Hanoi, Vietnam, photographer Loes Heerink became fascinated by the city’s street vendors and the mobile art they created atop their bicycles every single day. So she set out to capture this beauty in an interesting, maybe even unique way. petapixel.com »
2016-10-28 23:20
If you thought it was impossible to take a stunning photo of cow dung, get prepared to be proven wrong. Cow dung, espresso coffee crystals, centipede fangs, these are just a few of the subjects that took the Top 20 spots in Nikon’s Small World competition. The Nikon Small World competition is put on by […] petapixel.com »
2016-10-22 01:32
The trailer for a documentary about the photographer Roman Vishinac -- who is best known for documenting Jewish life in Eastern Europe in the years prior to World War II -- has been released. [Read More]
This mind-bending World War II photograph with "floating trees" may look like it is an optical illusion or cloned on Photoshop -- but it is actually a real image. [Read More]
Navy photographer Mickey Strand, who served for 24 years before retiring in 2009, has captured portraits of more than 115 World War II veterans since 2017. Of those, only 10 to 15 are still with us today, which shows the urgency of moving forward before it's too late. [Read More]
The Leica Freedom Train was not a physical coal or steam engine, but the monumental effort of the Leitz family. This is how they and the Leica camera company saved hundreds of Jews from persecution at the hands of the Nazis.
After swiftly retaking Afghanistan this month, the Taliban has just released a photo that appears to mock the United States — it’s a recreation of the iconic World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.
The Oakland Museum of California has created an online archive showcasing the work of pioneering documentary photographer Dorothea Lange. If you’ve never explored Lange’s work, there may be no better way to dive in.
Arizona-based journalist and photographer Jim Headley recently set out on a “mission” to shoot an ultra-rare Japanese twin lens reflex camera called the Taroflex. Only 10 of these cameras are thought to still exist, and Headley is the proud owner of a fully-functioning copy in “excellent condition.” Headley got in touch with us in early […]