"There is no shortage of visual talent around the world, but some people are better known than others. To develop a new and more diverse visual representation of the world, we need to locate, recognize and share the best work." That is the directive behind the World Press Photo organization's 6x6 Global Talent program, which spotlights six new talents drawn from one of six continents every three months. Last November six photographers from Southeast Asia and Occeania were featured. Recently six photographers from South America were nominated. We feature them today.

Time marches on. But perhaps at a different pace in the suburbs. In 1997, Beth Yarnelle Edwards picked up a camera and began photographing friends and friends of friends in San Carlos, CA, a Bay Area suburb, documenting their everyday lives. In 2016 she returned to rephotograph many of her original subjects, now 20 years older. She was surprised by how little about their lives had changed. "This population is kind of blessed," she told Time magazine. "This isn't how the larger population lives." She tells PPD she also "gained a new respect for why people enjoyed living in suburbia."

"Eventually you knew it had to happen. Sooner or later cameras would get so good at what they did that basically your job as a photographer would be to look for interesting things to shoot and then try not to get in the camera's way as it did it's thing capturing them. I mean, imagine if a camera had pretty much flawless exposure capability, flawless focusing and could fire and focus so fast it never missed a frame?" So writes Jeff Wignall in todays Street Test of the Sony a9 full-frame mirrorless camera. Sony Artisans of Imagery Katrin Eisman, Andy Katz, and Pat Murphy-Racey join in with their takes on the 24.2-megapixel camera that has caused an uproar in the photo industry.