South Korea has unveiled its first public museum dedicated entirely to photography, marking a significant milestone for the country’s cultural landscape. The Photography Seoul Museum of Art, a new addition to Seoul Museum of Art’s network, officially opened on May 29 in Dobong-gu, a district in northern Seoul. [Read More]
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2024 inductees: International Photography Hall of Fame Clockwise from top left: James Balog, Sam Abell, Martin Parr, Eve Arnold, Richard Misrach, Paul Caponigro. (Not pictured: Anne Wilkes Tucker) The International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum (IPHF) has announced its 2024 class of inductees, a group that includes photographers, visionaries and historians who exemplify the artistry, passion and evolution of the photographic arts. dpreview.com »
2024-10-29 16:00
Later this year the city of Lishui in China will become the proud host of an enormous museum dedicated to photography -- possibly the world's largest. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-06-06 20:13
We're blessed to have more than one museum dedicated to photography here in NYC. The International Center of Photography (ICP) has existed for many years. However, it's recently been overshadowed by Fotografiska in a few ways -- especially with the marketing of the Chapel Bar attached to the museum. thephoblographer.com »
2023-09-27 22:00
The Monash Gallery of Art in Melbourne, Australia is rebranding as the Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh) to solely concentrate on the art form. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-03-17 20:50
The Big Camera Photography Museum is an epic landmark in Western Australia that houses a huge camera collection; the life's work of one man. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-02-13 17:34
The Ernst Leitz Museum in Leitz Park, Wetzlar is a modern museum dedicated to photography that, in October, will open a facility where visitors will be able to enjoy what it calls an interactive photography experience. petapixel.com »
2021-07-22 22:52
A photographer has been convicted of sexually inappropriate conduct for kissing a six-year-old girl on the cheek during a kindergarten graduation photo shoot so he could get a smile out of her for a picture. [Read More]
A photographer was left baffled after he captured a series of strange lights over a city in South Korea on Monday.
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Olympus has announced that it is exiting the camera business in South Korea due to plummeting sales. The Korea Times reports that Olympus Korea will shutter its imaging segment on June 30th, 2020, and will focus all of its efforts instead on its optical and scientific equipment businesses. The Olympus service facility in the country […]
Korean artist Lee Ji-hee has recreated a selection of vintage cameras out of bright, colorful paper in some seriously advanced paper work. The paper versions are much funkier and bright than their original counterparts, giving the Seoul, South Korea-based artist’s work a unique style.
When Japan and South Korea signed a pact on military intelligence sharing last week, authorities decided to do the signing in private, closing off the ceremony to the press. Unhappy about this decision, photojournalists decided to protest the media blackout by laying down their cameras.