Police departments are using a new high-tech tool for catching criminals and identifying victims: realistic portraits generated from DNA data. The technology is astounding in its results, but it has attracted its fair share of criticism and controversy. [Read More]
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Driverless vehicles have been tested on public San Francisco streets for several years, but a newly revealed training document shows the cameras that allow them to avoid obstacles are also being used by the police to surveil the public. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-05-13 18:35
Police in the United Kingdom have been granted new powers that allow them to further crack down on pilots who are either flying illegally or irresponsibly with increased fines and the ability to confiscate drones. petapixel.com »
2021-06-22 19:48
The United Kingdom is cracking down on the unsafe and potentially illegal use of drones via the new Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Bill, which went before the UK's Parliament for a second reading on January 27. dpreview.com »
2020-01-29 22:08
Hong Kong police held a press conference yesterday to discuss the anti-extradition bill protests that have been raging this week. Photojournalists showed up to the presser wearing helmets, gas masks, and safety vests in protest of the excessive force they say police have been using against them. petapixel.com »
2019-06-13 20:40
I like to tell myself a little white lie: we’re returning to the old ways in photography because we’re realizing that they’re best. The truth, of course, is a deeper conversation around a lack of originality and self-rediscovery.
Last year, IKEA brought on Annie Leibovitz as an "artist in residence" and gave her the task to better visually represent how media presents the reality of life at home.
British documentary photographer Edward Thompson released an infrared medium-format photography book, The Unseen: An Atlas of Infrared Prints, in 2016 and is showing selected works from the book at the Saatchi Gallery in London until March 3. [Read More]
“America is heartbreakingly beautiful, with its vistas and distant horizons, as well as deserts, swamps, prairies, and mountain ranges,” says photographer Florence Montmare in an interview with the Phoblographer.
The Honest Amish National Beard and Moustache Championships took place earlier this month in Daytona Beach, Florida with the finest hairy chins in the land vying for the top prizes. [Read More]
"A standard headshot or portrait from a shoot are never my favorite," says photographer Levi Manchak to the Phoblographer in an interview. "I tend to prefer selecting a photo that's original, something I haven't consciously seen before or had some emotional effect on me when I took it.
"A standard headshot or portrait from a shoot are never my favorite," says photographer Levi Mancheck to the Phoblographer in an interview. "I tend to prefer selecting a photo that's original, something I haven't consciously seen before or had some emotional effect on me when I took it.