Peak Design has announced two new sizes of its popular Camera Cubes product—the X-Small and the Smedium. (Peak Design already makes its Cubes in sizes small, medium and large.) The V2 Camera Cubes allow photographers to safely store and organize their camera equipment inside any bag, and now they get new waterproof zippers, bigger main openings, fold-away lids, and 360-degree exterior handles, notes DPR. Read the full Story >>
Violent imagery related to the conflict between Hamas and Israel, including graphic posts showing dead children, are easily accessible to young users on platforms such as Instagram, researchers have found. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a research group that studies online platforms, created accounts on Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat under the guise of British 13-year-olds, notes The New York Times. Despite policies and features meant to protect increasingly online youth, the researchers found that grisly content was readily available. Read the full Story >>
Utah-based photographer Amber Smith was flying home from a wedding in St. Louis on October 8 and made a stopover at Denver International Airport. There, she faced a pro photographer’s nightmare: “I wasn’t feeling well so I just got off of the plane as fast as I could,” Smith said later. That's when she realized she didn’t have her camera bag. She returned to the plane but her bag was gone. Smith is appealing to whoever has her backpack — containing a Sony a7r III and Sony a7C — to return it, or at the very least return the couple’s wedding photos, notes PetaPixel. Read the full Story >>
Annie Leibovitz first arrived in Bentonville, AK, in 2021, to shoot a commissioned portrait of the Alice L. Walton, the Walmart heiress and founder of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Now the Arkansas museum is hosting the exhibition “Annie Leibovitz at Work,” a show of about 300 new Leibovitz photographs that, notes The New York Times, the photographer regards as a “classroom” for those who want to follow in her path. It’s the first museum to commission Leibovitz to shoot photographs for its permanent collection. Read the full Story >>
