WFMY Monday May 18, 2026
North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson has won a court order against a Raleigh-based wedding photography company accused of scamming couples out of $1 million, notes WRAL. Wake County Superior Court Judge Bryan Collins Jr. has ordered the company, Holly Christina Photography, to hand over photos and videos owed to customers and barred its owners from doing business while a state lawsuit plays out, adds WFMY. Holly Christina Scott Ayscue and Christopher Owen Ayscue, owners of Holly Christina Photography, have 30 days to deliver all raw and edited photos and video footage to clients who paid for them but never received them. Read the full Story >>
Digital Camera World Monday May 18, 2026
You can now view the complete archive of one of photographer Dorothea Lange’s most ambitious projects—online and for free, notes Digital Camera World. UC Santa Cruz Library has digitized 3,200 photographs taken by Lange and photographer Pirkle Jones for their series “Death of a Valley,” a documentary record of the final year of Monticello, a small agricultural community in California that was submerged under a lake by the damming of a creek. The project was commissioned but ultimately rejected by Life magazine in 1957. Read the full Story >>
LatAm Journalism Review Monday May 18, 2026
Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court has ordered the state of São Paulo to pay 100,000 reais (about US$20,000) in damages and a lifetime pension to a freelance photographer who was blinded in one eye while covering a protest. The ruling ends a years-long legal battle for photographer Sérgio Silva, who was struck in his left eye in June 2013 as police used rubber bullets to crack down on demonstrations against a rise in bus fares in São Paulo. “Silva was simply doing his job when he was the victim of violence,” said Cristina Zahar, Latin America program coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists. Read the full Story >>
ARTFORUM Monday May 18, 2026
London-based artist Rene Mati has been awarded the £30,000 (about 40,000) Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for their exhibition “As Opposed to the Truth,” held at CCA Berlin from Nov. 8, 2024 to Feb. 15, 2025. Mati is the first British artist to win the prize in over a decade. Mati’s work examines questions of race, gender, identity, intimacy, and subcultures through photography, film, installation, and writing, notes Artforum. This year’s shortlist included Jane Evelyn Atwood, Weronika Gsicka and Amak Mahmoodian, adds Art Review. Read the full Story >>
