October 14, 2009 annual awards ceremony of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund took place at the Asia Society in New York City. Lu Guang (卢广) from People’s Republic of China won the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his documentary project “Pollution in China.”
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This wonderful work has done by a very talented Belgian painter, illustrator, portraitist, caricaturist and photographer Ben Heine.
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Ash from Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull volcano kept European airspace shut down months ago, affecting millions of travelers around the world, some government agencies and airlines clashed over the flight bans.
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Rick Norsigian, a local painter from Fresno, Calif., bought a box of old negatives at a garage sale for 45 dollars. A lawyer said that the images have been identified as the work of world -renowned photographer Ansel Adams and are worth at least $200 million.
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With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, we thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912.
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This collection of photos focuses on The Pacific War, a term referring to parts of World War II that took place in the Pacific Ocean, the islands of the Pacific and the Far East. The start of The Pacific War is generally considered to be the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, [...]
For the first time, Nikon introduces the latest images captured in space by D3S digital-SLR cameras and NIKKOR interchangeable lenses used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
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Imagine quitting your job via email? This girl successfully quit her job by sending her coworkers and boss thirty three photos entailing her reasons for leaving. All done via a dry erase board.
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The BP oil spill has been the story in the Gulf this summer, but many still feel the effects of Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged much of New Orleans and the coast five years ago this month. To this day, a hundred and fifty thousand displaced New Orleanians still reside in Houston.
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These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations.
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