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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.
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Arthur Bleich with Red River Paper has written a fascinating article detailing one of photographer Jack Delano's most interesting and important photo assignments. American photographer Jack Delano was born as Jacob Ovcharov in 1914 in the Russian Empire. At age 83, he died as Jack Delano in Puerto Rico and between those...
In the final episode of the fifth season of Adorama's "Through the Lens" documentary series, we go behind the scenes with photographer Eric Paré. We have actually featured Paré's work here on Imaging Resource before. His light painting work is truly stunning and he has done some incredibly interesting things, such as...
Professional photographer Eric Veloso is the latest featured photographer in Adorama's ongoing "Through the Lens" documentary series. You can view prior episodes of the fifth season, which is focused on Canadian photographers, by clicking here.
Veloso is a street photographer who also cofounded "Street Dreams"...
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...
Photographer Ruddy Roye is TIME Magazine’s Instagram Photographer of 2016. Roye’s photojournalism and documentary photography has centered on the modern struggles of black people in America and he considers his work to be activism. He describes himself as a “photographer with a conscience” on his Instagram profile.
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The Kodak factory in Harrow, England used to be the largest manufacturing facility in Britain, but diminishing demand for photographic paper over the years has led the company to cease production at the factory, in operation since 1891. Before the factory shuts its doors in October, James Casha, photographer and former...
Robert Baggs at Fstoppers has compiled a list of ten must-see photography documentaries, noting that when he finds himself lacking in the inspiration department, watching a documentary on another photographer can help him get his creative juices flowing again.
One of the documentaries he lists is "Bill Cunningham...
Photographer Jay Maisel is known as much for his real estate as he is photography. To some, this might be seen as a distraction from his photo work, the spot light being more on the building he lives in than the art he produces.
But for Maisel, his 72-room, 35,000 square-foot Lower Manhattan mansion plays a vital role...
There are a couple of awesome photographic disciplines, but being a concert photographer probably tops them all. Despite being one of the most stressful photographic careers -- thousands of people around you, loud music, hot and moist air if you're inside a concert hall, and constant running from one end of the stage to the other -- it probably is...
Let's be honest: how often do we think about where our water comes from, and where it goes to, while using it? Probably not all that often. After all, most of us, living in a society where almost everyone has easy access to seemingly unlimited supplies of freshwater, it's easy to take that daily shower or bottle of spring water for granted. But when...
Due to human influence, the seascape of the world's oceans is changing, and not for the better. Populations of marine life are endangered as their natural habitats are destroyed. Piles of human waste are accumulating on the surface of the sea, and end up being ingested by animals. Overfishing depletes the oceans of their fish populations and creates...
What drives a photographer to risk their life to get a story? A new documentary, "War Reporter" tries to get inside the minds of photojournalists and honor those who've perished while reporting the conflicts sweeping across North Aftrica and the Middle East. First screened on February 12, 2014, in Tunisia as part of the ...
Now if that isn't a clever marketing stunt! For the launch campaign of the new Nikon D4S, the Japanese camera maker commisioned Nikon Ambassador Corey Rich to make a documentary film about three photographers using the company's new flasghip DSLR – with a D4S. As meta as this may sound at first, when you come to think of it, it actually makes a lot...
Here's a quick experiment to liven up your afternoon: Grab your phone, pull up the camera roll or gallery, look at the last picture you snapped, and take a moment to think about why you wanted to take that photo. Then watch this interesting video series in which random people do the same thing you did -- and share...
Everybody Street is a new documentary ode to the world of the New York street photographer. Those artists who have both the skills and tenacity to deliver unflinching portraits of the world around them. Available to either rent or buy through Vimeo On Demand, the documentary interviews many of the finest in the business....
Here's something to do with your free time if you have a rainy weekend ahead: watch a selection of the best photography documentaries out there, all for free on YouTube.
Expert Photography has a nice round-up of its 20 favorite photography documentaries on YouTube. It's quite a bountiful list, covering everything from...
As you might guess from its name, Indie Film Lab is a small film lab based in Montgomery, AL. The lab has teamed up with the folks at Kodak (now Kodak Alaris) to put together a documentary looking at why photographers still shoot film. The documentary is called "Long Live Film," and while we don't know when it'll come...
The BBC has just released a 30-minute documentary compiled from astonishing 8mm film footage taken during World War II by a group of French soldiers held in a German prisoner-of-war camp. The prisoners managed not only to smuggle camera parts into the camp and build an 8mm movie camera, but they made a fairly high...
Even in street photography terms, Arthur Fields never travelled very far for his art. Fields spent 50 years documenting life around the O'Connell Bridge in Dublin, Ireland, capturing an estimated 182,500 photos of Dubliners as they strolled along the River Liffey.
Now, a new interactive, Web-based documentary called...