The deadline for submitting applications for the 2022 W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund grants has been extended to June 5 at 11:59 ET. The program includes the $40,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography, the $10,000 Howard Chapnick Grant for work ancillary to photography including education and research, and the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Student Photographers. Read the full Story >>
Photographer Harold Davis says he has "no quarrel" with Pinterest users who pinned his photos to their personal Pinterest board. But he took issue with how Pinterest displayed his images. This week we noted that a federal judge had ruled against Davis in a lawsuit the New Jersey-based photographer brought against Pinterest in which he claimed that company had infringed on his copyright by … Read the full Story >>
“Just after witnessing an amazing tornado, suddently I felt a slight shock and my ears were left ringing!” declares the storm-chasing YouTuber known as Pi. He was on the prowl in his Toyota Prius, looking for tornadoes in Iowa a month ago, when lightning hit his car and, as he notes, “killed it.” If you’re wondering what that would be like, you can see for yourself because Pi kept his cameras running throughout. Read the full Story >>
Photographers and researchers have been using camera traps to track and identify wildlife in the Amazon, the most biodiverse area on earth, but there hasn't been a central location for information about those images, notes The Washington Post. Now a massive archive — with records for over 150,000 snapshots taken between 2001 and 2020, has been collected in one place. An international team of 120 institutions describes the new data set in an article in the journal Ecology. Read the full Story >>
