The photographer Nick Waplington never expected to be part of the fashion world. "Fashion was just kind of shapes and colors. I don't really know anything about it at all. I never have. I still don't," he told an interviewer recently, Nonetheless, Waplington has found himself embedded in some of the industry's most mythologized moments. From 1989 to 1992, he chronicled life inside Isaac … Read the full Story >>
When you live in “the prettiest village in England” you expect to share it with tourists clogging the streets. What you do not expect, notes Air Mail, is to have a drone film you taking a bath. Residents of Castle Combe, in the Cotswolds, have had to place “no drone zone” signs in their windows, the local church and public car park after being repeatedly buzzed by camera-wielding aircraft flying over their gardens, streets and in one instance by their bathroom window. “It’s almost like some of the visitors have lost their moral compass,” says one local. Read the full Story >>
Leica has been part of photography history for 100 years, and to mark the occasion the company has published a 320-page hardcover book “honoring the Leica camera as a technical masterpiece and a trusted companion to photographers across generations.” The books features 170 photographs shot with Leicas that captured pivotal moments over the past century, by the likes of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Marc Riboud, and Yevgeny Khaldei, along with tributes to the cameras behind the Leica story. Read the full Story >>
“My original ambition was to be a photojournalist,” says Heather Daenitz, this year’s Errazuriz Wine Photographer of the Yearaward winner. Instead, she explains at Decanter, she decided she’d prefer a job that was more collaborative in nature and ended up studying wine and viticulture. “I was working for a vineyard management company, Coastal Vineyard Care Associates, and they asked me to start a social media account for them. I dusted off my old camera and started taking it out into the fields," Daenitz says. Read the full Story >>
