PetaPixel Friday May 22, 2026
The court schedule has been set for photographer Nick Ut’s defamation lawsuit in France against Netflix and the VII Foundation over claims made in The Stinger, the documentary charging that another person took the famous “Napalm Girl” photo for which Ut has long been credited. According to reports, the case will be heard across February and March 2027, notes PetaPixel. Ut’s lawyer, Martin Pradel, told Agence France-Presse that the assertions and accusations made in the film have caused “particularly serious damage to the honor, professional integrity, and reputation" to his client. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday May 22, 2026
Two big names in the photo industry were in the news this week: Nikon lost a record-breaking 86 billion yen, or more than $542 million at current exchange rates, in the last fiscal year. Now, the
company's largest shareholder, the French-Italian eyewear company EssilorLuxottica, is reportedly weighing a major acquisition of the company, sending its stock soaring. Meanwhile, GoPro has
announced it is reviewing … Read the full Story >>
Press Gazette Thursday May 21, 2026
Thomson Reuters president and CEO Steve Hasker says the company’s licensing deals with AI companies focus on its text archive. “[W]e’ve basically said we’re not taking the live news file, so we’re not taking the news feed. It’s the archive, it’s not the images, it’s not the video, it’s not the audio,” Hasker told he Truth Tellers Summit in London recently. He also said that generative and agentic AI will be “more transformational and more disruptive” than the arrival of the internet, Google and social media,” notes Press Gazette. Read the full Story >>
CNN Thursday May 21, 2026
Director Ron Howard’s documentary film Avedon, which premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, draws on both archive footage of the late photographer and revealing interviews with those closest to him, notes CNN. Howard was asked by the news network to pick his four favorite Avedon images. “That’s a challenge,” he said, but in the end he chose portraits of a devilish Charlie Chaplin; Marilyn Monroe lost in thought; a young Lew Alcindor; and a last photo of Avedon’s own father. Read the full Story >>
