Mt. Olivet, Kentucky -- named after the biblical Mount of Olives -- is a hamlet in the smallest county in Kentucky. Population estimates vary, from 155 in 2023 to a bit higher number in the 2020 census. Photojournalist Michael Swensen, based in tiny Mt. Olivet, gets big-time assignments. His work has been seen worldwide via The Associated Press, Getty Images, The Washington Post, and more.
Artist and photographer Alexander Newman Hall went viral recently for a laser photo he created for a multimedia project. However, the internet success came at a great cost, as Hall broke his camera.
At the end of each year, TIME selects its Top 100 photos of the year. As always, the 2025 edition is replete with superb photography, ranging from split-second action shots of important news events to powerful photos from longer-term projects, the collection is a compelling visual reminder of the major events of 2025 and, perhaps as importantly, photography's power in telling the world's most important stories.
Amidst whiplash change in technology and media, Grand Ole Opry is celebrating its 100th year (1925-2025).
The Carnegie Corporation named 26 Andrew Carnegie Fellows in 2025, providing scholarships up to $200,000. One of these 26 Fellows is a photographer/cinematographer: Pulitzer Prize winner Steven G. Smith, a professor at the University of Connecticut.
Award-winning photographer Stephen Wilkes has two photos in this year's National Geographic Pictures of the Year, a celebration of 25 of the best and most important photos featured in this year's issues of National Geographic. The photos, Wilkes' famous Day to Night images, add a new layer -- time -- to beautiful wildlife scenes.
HIPA, the world's most profitable photo contest, announced its 2025 winners with the theme Power on 11th November in Dubai, the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates.
In National Geographic's new documentary, Chris Hemsworth: A Road Trip to Remember, filmmakers follow the world-famous actor as he connects with his father, who has Alzheimer's, on a therapeutic "road trip back in time."
The North American Nature Photography Association has revealed the winning photos for its 2026 Showcase, featuring stunning landscape images, action shots of wildlife, eye-popping macro photos, and powerful conservation work.
Photographer Tammy Ljungblad has worked at The Kansas City Star for 36 years. She has never seen anything like the impact of megastar Taylor Swift on NFL games at Arrowhead Stadium and the broader Kansas City community.
As photographers using macOS know all too well, native macOS-level support for RAW image formats can be hit-or-miss, and new support can take months or years to arrive, sometimes never arriving at all. This means that photographers must rely on third-party software to process many RAW photos, and that support in Apple's own apps, like Photos, is spotty. However, not all is lost, as very talented engineers are working hard to overcome macOS's own RAW limitations.
Award-winning photographers documenting immigration arrests in New York City have witnessed far-flung strife and conflict, but nothing quite like this.
Acclaimed photographer and industrial designer Matt Draper's latest solo exhibition, Within One Breath, opens today at the Leica Gallery New York. The photos featured in the show were all captured on a single breath while freediving with Leica rangefinders and using only natural light, ensuring that the beautiful underwater environment was disturbed as little as possible.
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Lynsey Addario has risked life and limb and been kidnapped multiple times to perform a photojournalist's most crucial and valuable mission: powerfully capturing and telling the world's most meaningful stories. Addario's incredible career, which spans more than two decades, is the focus of the brand-new National Geographic documentary, Love+War.
A crew working for an unnamed wildlife photographer fed and used cellophane paper to lure a fox for the 'perfect shot' in Grand Teton National Park. Since the fox was conditioned to human food, park officials euthanized it. The photographer got his shot. The fox paid with its life. Learning about this event became the North Star for Arthur Lefo, an OM SYSTEM Ambassador who has spent almost a decade photographing iconic wildlife. Lefo believes that ethical wildlife photography isn't just about rules, but respect.
Award-winning photographer Joe Vitti remembers the night he encountered Bruce Springsteen in a small-town campus bar in 1976, ultimately capturing just one single shot. But what a shot it was of the rock star known as "The Boss."
Photographer Paris Gore has been shooting Red Bull Rampage -- a high-octane mountain biking event in Utah -- for 12 years.
While each of Apple's latest iPhone models has a different rear camera system, they all feature the same brand-new Center Stage front-facing, or "selfie," camera. The base iPhone 17, ultra-thin iPhone Air, and flagship iPhone 17 Pro all have the same Center Stage camera, complete with its groundbreaking square image sensor and sophisticated new features. We sat down with key minds at Apple to learn more about the new camera and how it empowers mobile photography.
Matt Cetta, who was diagnosed with the degenerative eye disease Retinitis Pigmentosa, has transformed his experience of vision loss into art through a new collaboration with fellow photographer Christina DeOrtentiis. Together they explore resilience, blindness, and the evolving meaning of sight through their project, Unseen Crucible.
If you’re looking for adjectives for bobcats, there’s stealthy or very stealthy. However, that doesn't stop award-winning wildlife photographer Steve Winter from capturing incredible photos of the elusive wildcats.
Tether Tools has long been a key player in the tethered photography community. This specialized but vital niche of the photography market has very specific cable requirements, which, when faced with increasing issues with USB-C PD, forced Tether Tools back to the drawing board. The company developed a brand-new USB-C cable, Optima, to deal with growing USB concerns on modern cameras.
Earlier this month, Fujifilm finally fully revealed the GFX Eterna 55, a camera that it had been teasing through smaller releases over the course of the year. This slow reveal of the Eterna 55 was unusual for Fujifilm, but it afforded the company unique opportunities to tailor the product to its intended users.
At its first-ever brand event, Evoto One, Evoto announced a sweeping expansion of its platform with new desktop, mobile, and video tools. Evoto has lofty goals and some powerful, entrenched competition, but it likes its odds.
Modern photography is often defined by speed, filters, and fleeting trends, yet Kerwin Mallari has carved a distinctive path by focusing on stillness, intuition, and the subtle beauty of everyday life. Surrounded from an early age by his father’s extensive collection of photographs, he developed a profound appreciation for the stories that images can tell.
National Geographic's new documentary series, Top Guns: The Next Generation, combines thrilling visuals and takes viewers inside the U.S. Navy's elite aviation program. Here's how the team brought the incredible sights and sounds of fighter jet training to the small screen.
Photographer Nicole Tung uses her camera to expose powerful, important stories from the hidden world of Southeast Asia's fishing industry, shining a light on the industry's human and environmental costs.
French photographer Ben Thouard has built an acclaimed career by capturing water's power and poetry. His stunning images are a visual love letter to the sea.
Lomography announced a new line of Petzval lenses in July. The five prime lenses range from 27mm to 135mm and, in some cases, deliver all-new lenses built by recalculating Joseph Petzval's original designs for his iconic 19th-century portrait lenses. Here's how Lomography's engineers brought a nearly 200-year-old optical design back to life in 2025.
State fairs are a trademark part of the American Summer experience. Many have fond memories of going to their local fair, partaking in fried foods, and trying their luck at challenging fair games to win big, fun prizes. Photographer Carlos Gonzalez went to the Minnesota State Fair to get portraits of fairgoers with their precious prizes, capturing the magic and wonder of fairs.
When The Washington Post sent a reporter to Utah to cover the shrinkage of Great Salt Lake, the writer collaborated with local independent photographer James Roh who knows the territory, and helped with crucial reporting. This is increasingly the norm.
Photographer Michael McWeeney captures the beauty in everyday life with a style and approach that combines documentary photography, photojournalism, and fine art. Through his lens, he aspires to capture life with unerring honesty.
The new season of National Geographic's "Limitless" with Chris Hemsworth follows the star actor as he explores different ways that everyone can live better, healthier lives.
Photojournalist David Swanson was shot in the arm while he was embedded with U.S. Marines in Iraq in 2004. Later, he won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of school violence in Philadelphia.
Photographer James Parker's latest series, Mudbilly, celebrates his family's heritage, his love for storytelling, and the rawness of blue-collar life in Great Britain.
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery's latest exhibit, From Shadow to Substance: Grand-Scale Portraits During Photography’s Formative Years, explores portrait photography's grand-scale origins and showcases the museum's incredible, diverse collection of very early photographs.
Speaking to PetaPixel at CineGear Expo in Los Angeles, Canon executives expressed their belief that the company remains an industry leader despite increased competition, especially when it comes to autofocus technology.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the devastating Hurricane Katrina, which killed nearly 2,000 people, primarily in Louisiana and Mississippi. National Geographic's new documentary series, Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time, transports viewers back to the chaos and destruction Katrina wrought in New Orleans, and shines a much-needed light on the people and stories that were ignored back in 2005.
Although improving smartphone image quality has dramatically reduced the size of the entry-level camera market, Canon believes that this same, shrinking market can be revitalized by convincing a generation of mobile photographers they can create better photos and videos with a traditional camera. If Canon has its way, the entry-level market is not just alive, but also has genuine potential for growth.
Saskatchewan-based Film Rescue International (FRI) develops and digitizes old film, whether it's rolls of precious family memories or vital historical archives in museum collections. To deliver the best possible results in an increasingly challenging, stagnant film scanning industry, FRI built a cutting-edge multispectral film scanner.
Marit van Ekelenburg turns “fear into fascination” by revealing the beauty, diversity, and ecological importance of insects and other invertebrates through macro photography.
Mexican-born American photojournalist Henry Craver recently traveled to Michoacán, Mexico, a region controlled by organized crime, to document life with his film cameras. However, after running out of film, he boldly took a Fujifilm Instax Mini 12 camera to a wedding and photographed gun-toting cartel members. A bizarre juxtaposition -- instant film and organized crime -- Craver returned home to New Jersey with spectacular photos and an even more exciting story.
Tennessee-based astrophotographer Jeffrey Horne is an exceptionally talented photographer, capturing photos of deep space that expertly blend science and art. Horne's latest image of the Spaghetti Nebula (Simeis 147) combines 569 hours of exposure time captured over the past three winters. Few photographic genres test a photographer's patience quite like astrophotography.
At the start of a tough multi-day assignment to cover the Texas floods, a news photographer based in San Antonio visited a family reunification center and met someone so laden with grief that the photographer wept.
New York-based photographer Lanna Apisukh has had a fascinating path to professional photography. The talented portrait, food, and documentary photographer has been an elite gymnast, a skateboarder, and worked in tech before finding her footing as a pro photographer.
Last year, photographer Greg Murray came across a cat named Gatsby, who, due to a medical condition, looks like he's covered in a constellation of stars. Murray then captured charming portraits of Gatsby the Galaxy Cat, creating a calendar that raises money to help rescue animals in need. Not all heroes wear capes, but some wear furry stars.
Sharks Up Close With Bertie Gregory premiered yesterday on National Geographic and is streaming now on Disney+ and Hulu. The series follows the world-renowned wildlife filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer as he travels to South Africa to search for one of Earth's most feared predators, the great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). PetaPixel chatted with the show's cinematographer, underwater filmmaking specialist Dan Beecham.
Swedish sports photographer Joel Marklund has had an illustrious two-decade career as a photographer. Marklund shoots about every sport on the planet and is co-owner and chief photographer at Bildbyrån, Scandinavia's premier sports photography agency.
While many photographers will venture out to their local Fourth of July fireworks shows armed with a dedicated camera kit, what if you only have your smartphone on hand? It's still possible to get great shots as Google Senior Product Manager Alex King and Pixel Camera Senior Product Manager Michael Specht explain.
David Day’s photography bends the rules of reality, transforming everyday objects into dreamlike abstractions through intentional camera movement (ICM) in a studio setting. At the crux of art and experimentation, Day spoke with PetaPixel, inviting viewers to discover his process and how he turns layers of light, motion, and imagination into photographic art.
OM System wants to be the go-to camera brand for travel and adventure, but at the same time recognizes that many of its core users are dedicated bird and wildlife enthusiasts. Given the relatively low resolution of its cameras versus the competition, OM System recognizes there is room to, quite literally, grow.