All posts tagged: Photographer

How Photographer Elizaveta Porodina Sees the World

How Photographer Elizaveta Porodina Sees the World

Published by Jenni Sidey

GQ: Why did you decide to publish a book? Elizaveta Porodina: What it really is for me, and I’m realizing it now, is that this was the end of a phase as a creative, and I cannot really put in words what I mean by that. Or maybe it is not just the end but also the beginning of something bigger, something more expansive. When I started putting the book in place, I definitely wasn’t viewing myself at the end of anything at all. But now it has happened, and I feel like it really was sort of the last line of a phase of seeing myself as this one thing—let’s say, as mostly a photographer. Because during the phase of working on all these editorials, commissions, personal projects, there has been a huge throughline of writing narratives. Right. Your work is clearly a kind of storytelling. Storytelling, yes. And all of my stories in the last couple of months, years, maybe even longer were built upon a skeleton of a very specific narrative, and …

I’m a professional photographer and these are the camera and creator deals I’d buy during Amazon Prime Day

I’m a professional photographer and these are the camera and creator deals I’d buy during Amazon Prime Day

Published by Jenni Sidey

We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › You deserve an awesome camera. I’ve been a camera nerd for decades, so I know a good deal on one when I see one. Amazon’s Big Deal Days is a great opportunity to upgrade. Nikon’s Z8 is $3,296.95, $1,003 off its list price and the lowest price Amazon has charged for it. Most of the other deals here are the gear that goes around a camera, like gimbals that steady handheld shots, clip-on wireless mics and 360 cameras. The Shure MV7i is a USB-C podcast mic with an audio interface built in, and it’s $269 for Prime members. Prices on DJI drones and action cameras have shifted since the sale opened, and we updated this page at 9:30am ET on Tuesday, October 6, to match. The sale runs until 2:59am ET on Thursday, October 8. Nikon Z8: $3,296.95 (was $4,299.95) Nikon Z8 $3,296.95 (was $4,299.95) A full-frame hybrid $100 under its previous low See It Nikon …

Winners of the Bird Photographer of the Year 2026

Winners of the Bird Photographer of the Year 2026

Published by Daniella Wilson

© Henley Spiers / Bird Photographer of the Year Sunball Rocket. Gold Winner, Birds in the Environment, and Bird Photographer of the Year 2026. “A northern gannet seems to burst through the sun as it pierces down through the water. The handsome northern gannets lead a dualistic existence. In the nest, their newborn is carefully nurtured, and a couple’s bond is reinforced by pointing sharp beaks to the sky as they tenderly stroke their white necks together. In flight, hunting mode takes over, and piercing yellow eyes, fringed with blue circles, scour the sea for prey. Their long wingspan and streamlined bodies make flying look effortless, gliding along with just the occasional pulse of their wings. When fish are spotted, the gannets fly into the wind and stretch out their wings as brakes, precisely adjusting their position in relation to their quarry. Moments later, with wings tucked in tightly, the gannet shape-shifts into a pointed torpedo, diving into the water at speeds of up to 86 kilometers per hour.” Source link

20 soaring images from the Bird Photographer of the Year 2026 awards

20 soaring images from the Bird Photographer of the Year 2026 awards

Published by Jenni Sidey

A northern gannet dramatically breaks the surface of the ocean, propelling through the water like a torpedo at speeds of up to 86km/h 53mph). Photographer Henley Spiers captured the moment in a stunning image (seen below) and earned the top prize at the 2026 Bird Photographer of the Year awards. “The handsome northern gannets lead a dualistic existence,” Spiers said in a press release. “In the nest, their newborn is carefully nurtured, and a couple’s bond is reinforced by pointing sharp beaks to the sky as they tenderly stroke their white necks together. In flight, hunting mode takes over, and piercing yellow eyes, fringed with blue circles, scour the sea for prey”.  Overall winners Bird Photographer of the Year 2026: “Sunball Rocket” by Henley SpiersA northern gannet seems to burst through the sun as it pierces down through the water. The handsome northern gannets lead a dualistic existence. In the nest, their newborn is carefully nurtured, and a couple’s bond is reinforced by pointing sharp beaks to the sky as they tenderly stroke their white …

Photographer Jean-Pierre Laffont Captured Dissent in the United States. The Result Is a Celebration of Rebellion.

Photographer Jean-Pierre Laffont Captured Dissent in the United States. The Result Is a Celebration of Rebellion.

Published by Sam Flores

For more than fifty years, Jean-Pierre Laffont supplied the French and worldwide print media, through the Gamma and Sygma agencies, with images of the United States. He and his wife and partner, Eliane Laffont, have lived in New York City since the 1960s. As a French-speaking immigrant child who has ended up living most of her life since the 1960s in the orbit of New York City, I am naturally interested in the image that people overseas have of Americans. Back in the time of magazines I’d occasionally see copies of Paris-Match or Le Soir Illustré (Brussels), but for the most part the photographic narrative that I was exposed to was supplied by Time, Inc. I knew that the upbeat tale of progress and innovation, equality and justice purveyed by American news outlets would not fly in other countries, in part because so much of it was not true. And by the same token, I was aware that foreign news outlets were covering matters that the American press routinely chose to bury. A great many …

Patti Smith and Photographer Lynn Davis on Their Enduring Friendship With Robert Mapplethorpe

Patti Smith and Photographer Lynn Davis on Their Enduring Friendship With Robert Mapplethorpe

Published by Sam Flores

Back to the summer of 1967, to one of many arrivals. The bus to Port Authority, the subway to Brooklyn, and, finally, the room with the curly-haired boy. As Smith wrote in her award-winning 2010 memoir, Just Kids, “It was a good day to arrive in New York City. No one expected me. Everything awaited me.” “I remember almost everything,” Davis says, speaking to Vanity Fair last month about “Paths That Cross,” an exhibition that features work by Davis, Smith, and Mapplethorpe, opening September 18 at Weinstein Hammons Gallery in Minneapolis. The highly personal curation of photographs (gelatin silver prints, many of them vintage, and unique Polaroids), sculptures, drawings, postcards, videos, and other unique works represents direct collaborations among the artists, as well as their friendships. In total, 40 works will be presented in the airy, 2,000-square-foot gallery. “Those were just very busy years. I had great friends,” Davis recalls. “In those days, even if you didn’t have much money, you had access to a lot of things. One would go to the theater, the …

16 splashy and spectacular images from the 2026 Ocean Photographer of the Year awards

16 splashy and spectacular images from the 2026 Ocean Photographer of the Year awards

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. In French Polynesia, an adult seahorse floats in ocean waters alongside two juveniles. His head appears bowed, as the young fry look on curiously. The captivating black-and-white image (seen below) by photographer Julien Anton took top honors at the 2026 Ocean Photographer of the Year awards. French Polynesia An adult seahorse pictured with newly born juveniles in the shallow seaweed-filled waters of Moorea, French Polynesia. While it is not known if these seahorses are related, their arrangement creates the impression of a farewell, as if the tiny seahorses have gathered around their father after he has released them into the world. Seahorses are now rare in French Polynesia so this image was the result of long hours of searching among the seaweed.Credit: Julien …

Winners of Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026

Winners of Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026

Published by Sam Flores

c© Thomas Pavy / Ocean Photographer of the Year First Place, Conservation Hope. A great hammerhead shark, known as Tamataroa in French Polynesia, is photographed at 55 meters depth in Tiputa Pass, Rangiroa Atoll, during a population survey. This image represents the moment an anonymous shark becomes a known individual. Through photo identification and laser-calibrated video photogrammetry, scientists can track sharks over time to measure their size, sex, and population trends. Source link

The Village Photographer | Felix Bazalgette

The Village Photographer | Felix Bazalgette

Published by Jenni Sidey

One July day in 1972, a French photographer named Madeleine de Sinéty got stuck in traffic on her way back to Paris from the countryside. “I left the jammed highway for a small country road,” she later remembered, “and decided to stop for the night in the most out-of-the way village I could find.” The tiny farming settlement of Poilley, in Brittany, would become her home for the next eight years, and the subject of more than 50,000 intimate, often unsettling photographs. Sinéty developed a knack for finding within quotidian domestic and village scenes—a woman brushing her hair, a picnic in the sun—a dreamlike sense of mystery. Sinéty’s first retrospective, on view now at the Jeu de Paume, marks a growing interest in an artist whose work was barely published, and only twice exhibited, in her lifetime. (She died in 2011.) Like her American contemporaries Saul Leiter and Joel Meyerowitz, Sinéty shot color photographs in a soft yet vivid palette. In Poilley she was especially drawn to the chaotic and the surreal: pigs butchered on …

Photographer sues painter Elizabeth Peyton for copying Oasis image

Photographer sues painter Elizabeth Peyton for copying Oasis image

Published by Jenni Sidey

Last week, rock music photographer Justin Thomas filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in the Southern District of New York against the American painter Elizabeth Peyton, Sotheby’s, and David Zwirner Gallery, as first reported by Copyright Lately. In the suit, Thomas accuses Peyton of willfully copying a photograph he took at an after-party in London’s Earls Court in 1995 of Oasis band members Liam and Noel Gallagher embracing in a rare show of affection, given the brothers’ well-reported animosity. Related Articles Petyon’s painting from the photograph, titled Earl’s Court (Liam + Noel) (1996), went on to fetch $1,920,000 at Sotheby’s in New York in May. The disputed painting “is just a slavish copy of the copyrighted work,” argues the court filing. “She copies the captured iconic moment, the famous feuding Gallagher brothers in a kiss. She copies the theme, the brutish rock stars caught being tender,” it goes on. “The only transformation is the medium itself, and Peyton’s slight cropping of the copyrighted work and adding different coloring and brushwork,” it adds, claiming the painting is …