Photography
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Canon Unveils EOS R8 Mark II as Its Lightest IBIS Camera
Canon announced the full-frame EOS R8 Mark II and a new lineup of accessories on September 15, 2026, positioning the camera as its lightest EOS body to feature in-body image stabilization.
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Fujifilm Unveils New XF400mmF4.5 R LM OIS WR Super Telephoto Lens
In a press release dated September 4, 2026, Fujifilm announced a new fixed 400mm super telephoto lens set to hit shelves in mid-September at $3,199.95.
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OM SYSTEM Unveils First PEN Camera Under Its Own Brand
Announced from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the OM SYSTEM PEN is billed as the series' first model with splash and dust protection, with shipments expected in late October.
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Minimalist Photography Awards 2026 Winners Announced
Polish photographer Marcin Giba won Minimalist Photographer of the Year for "The Last Winter," an aerial series of frozen lakes, in a competition that drew over 6,200 entries from nearly 70 countries.
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xAI Sues Photographer Over Child Abuse Images Made With Grok
Elon Musk's xAI is suing Arkansas photographer Russell Bloodworth, arguing he bears responsibility for sexually explicit images of minors created from his own client photos using Grok.
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Photo of Gaza Football Match Removed From French Sports Photography Festival
A photo by AP's Jehad Alshrafi showing a football match played amid Gaza's ruins was pulled from the Deauville Sport Images Festival in France after unspecified "requests," sparking local political criticism.
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Iranian Photojournalist Yalda Moaiery Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison
Acclaimed Iranian photojournalist Yalda Moaiery has been sentenced to 15 years in prison on national security charges. Teenage photographer Shaghayegh Afshar Najafi received nine years in a related case.
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Cinematography Between Open Sky and One Room
The August 2026 issue of American Cinematographer sets a UFO thriller beside a wartime drama shot almost entirely in a single location.
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Two Sisters, Falconry and No Audience
Lauren Maccabee's Young Falconers follows two sisters learning falconry in Dorset with their father, and documenting none of it online.
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Forty-Two Cathedrals, Photographed in Daylight
Peter Marlow's 2010-2011 series on England's Anglican cathedrals is on show at London's oldest Gothic church from 21 July to 31 August 2026.
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A New Film Camera, Due Between 2027 and 2030
Light Lens Lab is designing a rangefinder film camera from scratch rather than reviving an old model. The prototype is 3D-printed; release is set for 2027 to 2030.
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China's Slowdown Reaches the Camera Business
CIPA data shows camera and lens shipments to China fell in the first half of 2026. Nikon cut projections by 300,000 units and North America leads again.
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Early Photography and the Question of Agency
The National Gallery of Art opens Remember Me in November 2026, gathering roughly 70 early photographs from its own collection through March 2027.
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A Soviet Settlement Left in Suspension
Damien Aubin's photographs of Pyramiden in Svalbard become a limited-edition book in September 2026. The mine closed in 1998; people returned in 2007.
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A Short Book on Stock Photography's Hidden History
Simona Supekar's Stock Photo, published by Bloomsbury, argues that the images nobody examines are now the training data behind generative systems.
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Arles Swaps a Theme for Three Constellations
The 57th Rencontres d'Arles groups more than forty exhibitions under three headings rather than one theme: Independence, Forms of Life and The Uncertain Archive.
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A Pop Portrait Enters a National Collection
London's National Portrait Gallery has acquired Harley Weir's 2024 portrait of Charli xcx, now on view in the museum's History Makers space.
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A Car Photography Archive Sues Midjourney
EVOX Productions claims tens of thousands of its licensed vehicle photographs were used to train Midjourney without permission, in a suit filed in California.
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When a Photography Gallery Hangs AI Images
Belfast Exposed included an AI-generated series in a graduate show, and photographers pushed back. The argument narrowed to one question: what does a photography gallery hang?
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212 Photography Istanbul Returns for a Ninth Edition
Istanbul's photography festival runs 26 September to 11 October 2026 across more than a dozen venues, with a 5,000 euro international contest closing on 6 September.
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The Economics of Photography Open Calls
PhMuseum's August 2026 list of six open calls puts entry fees of 10 to 53 euros next to prizes running from 1,800 euros to 10,000 dollars.
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Leica's 2026 Shortlist Names 12 Photographers
The Leica Oskar Barnack Award revealed 12 finalists on 5 August 2026, chosen by more than 130 nominators across 48 countries. The winner is announced on 8 October.
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Aron Wiesenfeld Paints the Middle of a Story
Wiesenfeld's dreamlike oils place a single figure in an unnamed landscape, cutting the narrative at both ends and leaving the viewer to close it.
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Before the Mobiles, Calder Ran a Wire Circus
In 1920s Paris, Alexander Calder built a miniature circus from wire and cloth and performed it by hand. Photographs and film are what survived.
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Shop Awnings, Removed From the Street and Rebuilt
At Footnote Gallery, Egon Van Herreweghe turns storefront canopies into sculpture, isolating the layer of the city almost nobody actually looks at.
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Ella & Pitr Paint for the Camera Overhead
The French duo cover rooftops and farmland with vast sleeping figures, works that stay illegible from the ground and only resolve in aerial photographs.
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A Greenland Iceberg Rolls Over, on Camera
Video from Ilulissat captures an enormous iceberg losing balance and flipping, lifting a surface that had been metres underwater into the air.
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Forty Years of Garfield Phones on a French Beach
Plastic Garfield telephones have been washing up on the French coast since the 1980s. A new short film follows the debris and what it keeps proving.
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Frank Kunert Builds Buildings That Cannot Work
Frank Kunert handcrafts small-scale scenes and photographs them, producing familiar architecture whose logic quietly collapses.
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Polaroid's Case for Imperfection, Made on Purpose
Patricia Varella explains how Polaroid plans beyond the quarterly campaign cycle, builds its identity on imperfection, and turned an anti-AI message into a viral hit.
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Tropical Fish and Noodle Packets Over Weifang
Janice Chan photographed the kite festival in Weifang, where giant tropical fish share the sky with enlarged instant noodle packaging.
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The David Malin Awards Name This Year's Sky Pictures
The CWAS David Malin Awards have announced their annual astrophotography winners, a selection built on exposures measured in nights rather than seconds.
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Sam Nicklin Solves Chrome in Camera, Not in Post
Shooting Alessi's reflective products for "Chrome and Colour", Sam Nicklin worked with coloured paper, in-camera tricks and patience instead of retouching.
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Susan kae Grant's Night Journey Refuses to Explain
A new book gathers Susan kae Grant's mysterious night photographs, images that circle the dream world without translating it into a story.
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Sixty Bodega Cats, Documented Across Five Boroughs
Dan Rimada's book records 60 New York bodega cats in 120 photographs by Gülce Kılkış, and argues for legal protection and regular veterinary care.
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Reenacting Wars That No Camera Ever Saw
Ana Paganini shoots historical reenactments of pre-photographic wars on a vintage Hasselblad and 120mm film, including the 210th anniversary staging of Waterloo.
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Street Photography's 2026 Shortlist Lands in Jaipur
Roughly 1,600 entries from 50 countries produced eight winners at the Pure Street Photography Awards 2026, with 158 frames going on show in Jaipur this November.
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