On February 26, 2021, Scopio hosted a public panel for Black History Month featuring Black photographers and Black-owned businesses. Halfway through the panel, a group of anonymous users disrupted the event and bombarded the chat and audio feed with a torrent of racist and hate-speech-filled language. Scopio is an image marketplace that focuses on diversity […]
Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo-features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy! Japan’s 2011 Tsunami, Then and Now – in Pictures – The Guardian Embed from Getty Images In 2011 one of the most powerful earthquakes created a […]
Don’t Shoot Guns, Shoot Cameras (DSGSC) is a program that’s working to keep youth away from gang violence by teaching them to shoot cameras and not guns. The Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) based program was founded in Washington, D.C. by comedian and filmmaker Rodney “Red” Grant, who used his 20 years of experience in […]
Gitzo recently announced a new travel tripod and backpack designed with a focus on sustainability and the intention of reducing waste. Named Legende, they have a great mission that is well-intentioned, but it’s still important that the products function as promised. One thing that was immediately brought up in our original coverage of the Legende […]
Smartphone manufacturers make a lot of changes to devices each year both in software and hardware. Many of those updates sound great on paper, but are all of them appreciated by buyers? In a study by BlinkAI, the organization sought to find out what was actually important to a majority of consumers. If BlinkAI sounds […]
Panasonic has announced firmware updates for the S-series cameras that are set to improve and enhance the performance of the cameras. The updates are video-focused and bring the most features to the S1 and S1H cameras such as Blackmagic RAW support for the S1H and 6K recording to the S1. Panasonic S1H In addition to […]
The Horizon 202 is an analog panoramic camera from a company out of Russia, and for those who couldn’t afford a Hasselblad XPan or Fujifilm GX617, it was the next best thing. Photographer Jay P. Morgan decided to take the camera out to enjoy it today, nearly 50 years after it originally debuted. In this […]
The StarScope Monocular is advertised as both a hand-held scope and incredible zoom lens for smartphones accompanied by some rather unbelievable performance claims. Krazy Ken of YouTube Channel Computer Clan first looks at the ads and dissects the promises before putting the scope to the test himself. To say the claims put forth by the […]
Every Sunday, we bring together a collection of easy-reading articles from analytical to how-to to photo-features in no particular order that did not make our regular daily coverage. Enjoy! Naomi Rosenblum, Historian of Photography, Dies at 96 – Artcasso Naomi Rosenblum during FotoArtFestival 2007, Bieniecki Piotr, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons and Rosenblum’s classic […]
The COVID pandemic has stricken all the layers of our societies, from culture to economy, family life to social events. Nevertheless, this unique situation has also offered unique pictures of places usually crowded and suddenly totally empty, taken by photo reporters. For my part, as for many of my professional colleagues, I spent many months […]