American Anthony Suau’s stirring photograph of a sheriff’s deputy searching a foreclosed home was declared today the grand prize winner of the 52nd World Press Photo Contest, with judges terming it a “double entendre” representative …

Photographer-turned psychologist Lisa Jack has unearthed film from a photo shoot she did with Barack Obama in 1980, when the president-elect was a freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles, and the shots got picked …

University of Florida student Tim Hussin, of Palm Harbor, Fla., was named this week the winner of the College Photographer of the Year Portfolio competition, both surprising him and landing him a coveted internship at …

The Hubble Space Telescope has taken the first-ever visible-light pictures of a planet orbiting another star, NASA scientists announced today. The photos represent a major advancement in the quest for space knowledge and are the culmination of a process stretching back more than 20 years. Check out their photos here.

The harsh Martian winter has deprived the Phoenix Mars Lander of the sunlight it needs to power its instruments, and the device has stopped communicating after more than five months of work on the Red …

Voters from around the country are sending their images from the polling stations to major national newspapers, and those combined with photos snapped by staff photographers are providing a thorough view of today’s historic election …

Digital Railroad, the photo management and microstock agency that on Oct. 15 announced staffing cuts, has taken its site offline, and even the company’s most prominent former customers are scrambling to find another hosting service …

PDN’s PhotoPlus Expo, considered among the most important international photography events each year, drew thousands of photographers to New York City. Ask The Photographer was there to talk with leading photographers and professional camera titans.

LAS VEGAS - A one-day auto racing educational photography seminar will be conducted on October 24 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The seminar offers photo enthusiasts an opportunity to create racing pictures from restricted …

NASA released today new hi-resolution photos of Mercury showing a previously unseen side of the planet. They are the first images of the planet closest to the sun taken in more than 30 years.

ACD Systems released this week its Photo Manager 2009 software, a consumer program that helps shooters organize, back up and share their photos.

Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton recently brushed off efforts by celebs and the city council to place more control on the aggressive paparazzi since, as he told KNBC-TV, “If you notice, since Britney started …

As traditional film photography wobbles on its last, already flimsy legs, the last professional film processing company in Vermont shut down this week and held a funeral for film to commemorate the event, complete with …

Israel-based Leaf Photography, a member of Kodak’s Graphic Imaging Group, has rolled out a 56-megapixel medium format digital back, just out-pixeling the recently released, 50mp Hasselblad H3DII-50 – a camera that uses a Kodak sensor.

Icon Sports Media leverages Spitfire Photo technology to deliver new online archive of editorial and historical sports images
One million sports images now available online from searchable database
SAN FRANCISCO AND CHATSWORTH, CA. February …

Looking for the latest version of Photo Mechanic? One of the premiere image management software programs out there is available for download…

Microsoft has released a new product call Microsoft Pro Photo Shoot it will be a software add-on to Microsofts Outlook mail service.