Footage has surfaced of an angry priest yelling at a wedding photographer -- as a petition, calling on clergymen to stop their "rude" and "aggressive" behavior toward snappers, was signed more than 900 times in the U.K.
The head of Instagram Adam Mosseri appeared to double down on the company's commitment to video in the face of large-scale criticism of recent changes to the app.
Ten wildlife photographers have signed a letter calling on the Ministry of Defence to stop using the fur of black bears for the Queen's Guard's famous caps.
A new mother in the UK has started a public campaign to outlaw nonconsensual breastfeeding photos in public places after she says she was photographed by a "creepy" man while nursing her baby.
Yesterday, Shutterstock unveiled a new "earnings structure" (i.e. royalty system) on the company forum, and to say photographers are upset would be an understatement. Contributors are furious, going so far as to start a Change.org petition demanding that the change not go through.
Earlier this year, rumors that Disney would replace its PhotoPass photographers at Disney Parks with robotic "photo boxes" were confirmed as photo booths began popping up around the park in lieu of people. These boxes have been popping up everywhere, and people are not happy: so much so that there is a now a petition on Change.org that is begging Disney to keep the PhotoPass photographers around.
Back in May, Apple quietly filed a legal petition to try and invalidate a key patent by cinema camera maker RED, and RED is not taking it lying down. The patent in question describes RED's "REDCODE" codec for visually lossless, compressed 4K video at 23fps and above—one of the patents at the very core of RED's history as a company and camera maker.
Dear Nikon,
I am writing as a longtime Nikon photographer and someone who has been working extensively with your cameras and who has written many reviews in the past years. I have been shooting in the area of timelapse photography for many years now, and have given many workshops and training sessions.
The backlash has begun. A day after Instagram announced that its feed will soon be ordered by a Facebook-style curation algorithm, over 100,000+ people have signed an online petition to "Keep Instagram Chronological."
Throughout the history of photography, cameras have mostly been designed with right handed people in mind. For DSLRs in particular, the shutter button and camera controls are usually on the right side of the camera, making it difficult to operate without using your right hand.
Florida-based photographer Sylvia Cacciatore is on a mission to change that: she's currently petitioning Canon to consider developing a camera that's designed specifically for left-handed people.
Online fashion retailer ModCloth has become the first fashion company to sign the Heroes Pledge for Advertisers, a petition that demands advertisers be entirely transparent about their Photoshopping practices in marketing material.
A few days ago, we shared the tragic news Reuters freelancer Molhem Barakat, who some were claiming was as young as 17-years-old, had been killed while photographing a battle in Syria. Since then, Reuters ethics and business practices have been called into question by an outraged journalistic community that has even gone so far as to start a Change.org petition demanding that the news organization take responsibility for the young boy's murder.
Fujifilm has confirmed that it will soon stop production of its FP-3000B film, which means that the only black-and-white instant film currently available in the 3x4 format will soon disappear forever.
Nikon found themselves at the center of a controversy this last weekend after they decided to cancel a sensitive photography exhibit without giving a reason why. The exhibit, a photographic documentary on the theme of "Comfort Women" (Korean women used as sex slaves during WWII in Japan), was put together by Korean photographer Ahn Sehong and set to start on June 26th at the Nikon Salon in Tokyo -- until Nikon cancelled it.
It's common knowledge that models in magazines are Photoshopped to look the way that they do -- often to the detriment of the young girls that aspire to have these computer generated figures -- but for the most part protests have come in the form of ad campaigns like Dove's Campaign for Real Beauty. But in the past couple of weeks, 14-year-old Julia Bluhm decided to take a different approach.