Photography News

As of today, Pope Francis is officially an Instagram user. The pope launched his personal Instagram account today at @franciscus, an within an hour it had already attracted over 100,000 followers. The first photo posted ...

Suppose you come home from a trip in which you shot many rolls of film. You want to develop your film chronologically, but found that you forgot to label them with their order. What do you do? I have a solution… a chem...

TH Swiss has announced a new line of lenses called Irix. The first lens in the family is the Irix 15mm f/2.4, a “photographer’s dream” lens that was “built by engineers and perfected by designers. The Irix 15mm f...

Big Apple. 3 A.M. The day is Saturday and my phone alarm is screaming. It’s vibrating furiously and crawling away from the table, trying it’s very best to drop to the floor and escape my desperate attempt to shut it....

Here’s one of those bizarre things you’ll find on the Internet: the YouTube channel Hydraulic Press Channel posted this 2-minute video showing an already-broken Nikon P300 compact camera getting flattened by a hydrau...

Want to see the face of the tiny insects that live in your home? For his project “Suburban Symbiosis: Insectum domesticus,” photographer Daniel Kariko shot close-up portraits of common household insects. The images a...

We’re pleased to announce that the PetaPixel Photography Podcast is now available on Spotify. The show is one of the first photography-related ones to be selected for inclusion in Spotify as it rolls out the podcasting...

Many of the short documentary films about artisan makers these days follow the same recipe — things like slow, dramatic music, close-up shots with a super shallow depth of field, and more. Photographer Patrick Kehoe de...

Want a camera that captures point-of-view video of the happiest moments in your life? Check out the Smile Camera. The creation of artist Andrew Maxwell-Parish, it’s a helmet camera that is triggered by your smiles usin...

Andreas Levers created the short photo series called Floaters. And it's eerily beautiful.