World Sports Photography Awards Tuesday October 7, 2025
The World Sports Photography Awards, the world’s foremost sports photo competition, is back and now accepting entries. The competition, which has announced Canon as its Official Imaging Partner for the 2026 edition, adds a new category this year, the Canon Emerging Talent Award, for photographers under 30. Photographers can submit up to ten images captured between December 2024 and November 2025 across 24 sports categories. Submissions are free of charge, and the deadline is November 24, 2025. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday October 7, 2025
She's an attractive young brunette looking for a talent agent, And, as Vanity Fair noted recently, she represents the end of movie industry "as we know it." The she in question is Tilly Norwood, an
AI-generated "actor" created by Dutch producer and comedian Eline Van der Velden, founder of a company named Xicoia, which bills itself as the world's first artificial intelligence talent studio. … Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Monday October 6, 2025
Leica has announced record sales for the fourth consecutive financial year, with the highest revenue in its history along with continued profitability, notes PetaPixel. In a press release, The company said that in 2025 it saw nearly across-the-board improvements. Its optics division saw revenue increase by 7.6% from April 2024 to the end of March 2025 to around €596 million (the previous year was €554 million), largely driven by the photography segment and growth in smartphones.
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The Guardian Monday October 6, 2025
A federal judge has again thrown out a lawsuit by a man who accused grunge rock band Nirvana of distributing child sexual abuse images by using a photograph of him as a naked, swimming baby on the cover of its breakthrough 1991 album “Nevermind.” US District Judge Fernando Olguin tossed out the lawsuit filed by plaintiff Spencer Elden for a second time after finding that no reasonable jury would consider the picture pornographic, notes The Guardian. Defendants included surviving Nirvana members and photographer Kirk Weddle. Read the full Story >>
