Panasonic is dumping development of lower-end camera systems in favor of higher-end gear for enthusiast and professional photographers and filmmakers, reports DIY Photographer, citing a report from Nikkei Asia. Many companies have been killing off compacts for several years already, putting their efforts where things pay a little better. Only a handful still produce even high-end compacts now, adds DIYP. Read the full Story >>
Football season is around the corner. And, as always, fans of the Green Bay Packers are amped. This year, besides the team led by quarterback Aaron Rogers, there's also excitement building about another Packer squad. Among the items up for sale at Heritage's Summer Platinum Nights Sports Auction on Aug. 27-28 in Dallas will be a 1919 Packers team photo--an original glass negative that … Read the full Story >>
Tsuneko Sasamoto, a pioneering photographer considered to be Japan's first female photojournalist, died on August 15, just over two weeks before her 108th birthday, reports Reuters. Born in Tokyo the year World War I began, Sasamoto originally wanted to be a painter but was discouraged from it by her father. Inspired by a black-and-white film she saw with a friend, she began working as a photographer and in 1940 joined the Photographic Association of Japan. Her subjects ranged from the famous, such as General Douglas MacArthur, who oversaw the post-World War Two U.S. occupation of Japan, to the wives of coal miners. Read the full Story >>
Since 2000, Tsukasa Yajima has taken stark, poignant portraits of former sex slaves for Japan’s World War II army to help the world learn about their painful history. Now, the 51-year-old photographer from Japan finds himself at the center of a scandal about the treatment of the women, reports The New York Times. Yajima and others in South Korea have accused managers of a nursing facility for the women, all now in their 90s, of providing substandard care while collecting millions of dollars in donations to enrich South Korea’s biggest and most powerful Buddhist order, Jogye. Read the full Story >>
