News › Documentary Photography
Photographer Sean Tucker has a wide variety of content on his YouTube channel. He does some traditional photography content, like tutorials, but also creates more emotional and philosophical content. His latest video bridges that gap, even such a gap even exists, by interviewing documentary photographer Jim Mortram.
...
In the 61st annual World Press Photo Contest, Venezuelan photographer Ronaldo Schemidt took home the grand prize for his image Venezuela Crisis, which is seen below. The World Press Photo Foundation also held its 8th annual World Press Photo Digital Storytelling Contest, with nominated photographers being invited to the...
Award-winning photographer Shane O'Neill is the latest photographer featured in Adorama's ongoing series, Spotlight. O'Neill primarily does documentary wedding photography, but he also dabbles in commercial and foot photography.
As a documentary wedding photographer, Shane captures many of the smaller surrounding...
As part of their ongoing "Spotlight" series, Adorama TV looked at Irish documentary photographer and filmmaker Moira Sweeney's career and work. Sweeney got her start as a child when her mother gifted her a camera for Christmas after Moira expressed an interest in photography and then she branched out into cinema and...
Photographer Danny Wilcox Frazier had made his career shedding a light on the often untold stories of people in small communities across middle America. While finishing the work for his newest book, "Lost Nation," Adobe followed him for four days in South Dakota to take a closer look at his process and his subjects.
...
Sony Artisan and longtime National Geographic photographer Ira Block recently sat down with Tony and Chelsea Northrup to discuss his project of documenting baseball in Cuba.
The Northrups asked Block about his process and how he chose to capture the Cuban culture. Baseball is a big part of Cuban culture and has a long...
The late Jim Marshall was well known during his career for his music photography, which earned him the Grammy’s Trustee Award. Marshall was the first and to date the only photographer to achieve this honor. To celebrate the work of Jim Marshall, Leica Camera and the Jim Marshall Estate are releasing a limited edition Jim...
Adobe doesn’t just provide artists with the software to bring their creativity to life, but the company also places an emphasis on helping others in more direct ways. One of their initiatives for inspiring creativity is their Adobe Creative Residency. The residency program provides artists the chance to spend a year...
Sony has a long history of working with conservation groups, including providing imaging technology to Conservation International since 1995 and helping to protect a heritage forest in Sumatra. One of their recent endeavors was to outfit wildlife photographers across Europe with the Sony RX10 III to capture images of...
If you’re looking for daring photographers to follow on Instagram, you’d be hard-pressed to beat this group of storm-chasing shutterbugs. While many of us prefer to stay as far away from severe weather as possible, some people opt instead to track down the action and document it as it unfolds.
Take Chris Sanner, for...
April 22 marked Earth Day, an occasion to bring special attention to the worldwide movement to improve the health of our environment. Currently, climate change is one of the biggest threats facing our world and fine art environmental photographer Diane Tuft has spent much of her career traveling to remote areas of the...
Photography is hugely popular in China, especially among the younger generation who were born during and after the 1980s economic explosion in the massive Asian nation. The country remains an interesting society with respect to freedom of expression and how photographers share their work and stories. TIME has identified...
The 2017 Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded and the winning photographers this year are a pair of photographers who turned their lenses on violence across the world.
In the Breaking News Photography Award, Daniel Berehulak won for his coverage of the government crackdown, assault and violence on drug dealers and users...
Michael McCoy served two tours in Iraq. He returned home with a photography hobby and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). “On my first trip to Iraq, I would take tons of pictures to keep up the morale and to send back to friends and family,” McCoy told TIME. All the photos he captured had been backed up to a hard...
With a new president having taken office in the United States, that also means that a new official White House photographer will be taking over as well. DigitalRev In Focus explores the job and its history.
John F. Kennedy was the first US president to work with a full-time photographer, Cecil W. Stoughton. After...
Brazilian photographer Ricardo Stuckert recently had an experience that is exceedingly rare in the modern world, the chance to view an uncontacted tribe of people. While in a helicopter trip to photograph a “contacted” tribe in the Amazon, a rainstorm caused the helicopter to take a detour.
It was on this detour over...
Documentary photographers and photojournalists face a uniquely high risk out in the field, and part of that is due to the lack of encryption features built into commercial cameras. As it stands now, whenever a photographer or filmmaker is stopped by police, military or other officials, the photographer has no way to...
U.S. Union Army General William T. Sherman was quoted as saying that "war is hell." For British soldier and photographer Rupert Frere, it is his job to document this hell.
In the video below from Photography News, we see Rupert Frere on patrol with the British Army. Thru his body camera, we get a first-person view of...
New York-based street photographer Donato Di Camillo actually became interested in street photography while confined within the walls of a medium-security federal prison. This wasn’t the first time the 47-year-old Di Camillo found himself on the wrong side of the law; his first arrest came at age 12 for theft.
After...
Defining photographic genres can be quite difficult, and street photography is no exception. It’s not always clear what it is, nor how it overlaps with other types of photography such as photojournalism, documentary photography, or even portrait and architectural photography. Eric Kim is a prominent street photographer...