German photographer Sandra Bartocha has been making fantastic and ethereal nature photography for many years and is among the most creative landscape photographers working today. PetaPixel chatted with Bartocha about her interesting techniques, artistic vision, and the importance of authenticity in photography.
Photo book maker Mixbook announced new AI-based tools that users can incorporate in their design process.
Wedding photography is arguably one of the most important parts of a wedding, of course (though I’m biased being a wedding photographer and all). But at the end of the day when the music stops, the cake is eaten, and the honeymoon begins, the photos are what helps our couples relive the magic of their wedding day. This is why it’s important that you know how to make a wedding photo album your clients will love.
The Remembering Wildlife organization has announced Remembering Leopards, the eighth book in a series designed to bring attention to species that are threatened around the world.
Even though technology is advancing at an incredibly fast pace, multiple studies show that regardless of the time we spend on our screens, more than 81% of people (at least in the USA) prefer to read or view images on print rather than on a digital screen.
Photographer Edward Thompson, known for his documentary photo essays on various social topics, has created a body of work about the Texas Hill Country. Shot entirely on medium format film, he captured the curious and, at times, strange lives of local Texans at the time of George Bush’s political reign.
Robert Blomfield, a British physician and street photographer who passed away in December 2020, left behind a legacy of numerous shoeboxes filled with outstanding photographic prints of Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.
Magnum Photo is marking its 75th anniversary by publishing 150 photos, some of them previously unseen, from its 25 photographers that joined the agency in the past 15 years.
Photos of Nazis partying and relaxing as thousands of people died at nearby death camps have inspired a new play.
Cherry Hill is a book with a cinematic set of images by photographer Jona Frank about the trials and tribulations of her stifled growing up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. It features actress Laura Dern as Frank's mother.
Photo Cascadia, a group of seven photographers focused on capturing striking landscapes, has curated the collective's 200 best photos featuring Washington state's natural beauty and compiled them in a print book.
Cody Ellingham's project, Fantasy City by the Harbor, strips back the bustling city of Hong Kong to carve out quiet moments of introspection.
Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado is widely regarded as one of the great photographers on the planet today. He has traveled to over 120 countries, capturing powerful social documentary images that have appeared in exhibitions and publications around the globe.
A new book by esteemed wave photographer Clark Little showcases 15 years of dangerous work in the ocean that has produced amazing results.
Remembering Wildlife has started work on a new book that will feature photos of the eight remaining species of bears found in the wild. All profits from its sale will go towards protecting them.
Former White House chief photographer Shealah Craighead planned to publish a photo book of her images from the Trump presidency, but Donald Trump undercut that plan and sold his own book with her work in it, stealing her thunder.
Photographer Nancy Richards Farese has been photographing children for over ten years, from Boston to Bangladesh to Burkina Faso.
Donald J. Trump is publishing a photo book that covers his four years as President of the United States. Titled, "Our Journey Together," the book will include more than 300 photos along with captions written by Mr. Trump.
Over the last fifteen years, physical photography has become a rarity, even a luxury, for the everyday citizen. Modern cell phones have provided average folks with all the camera power they could ever need. Social media has rendered the storage and sharing of visual memories a strictly online affair. As with most recent innovations, the price for increased accessibility has been paid for in tangibility. What was once common has become quaint, what was universal is now bespoke.
The fundraising photography organization Remembering Wildlife has released the latest in its book series focused on what it calls the most misunderstood subject to date: African wild dogs.
If I can afford to, I always try to spend time in shops where I know there is a good selection of photo books. The books offer me inspiration for my photographs as well as the way I present my own work in printed publications.
Roland Miller is a photographer who has focused his lens on U.S. space exploration programs over the course of the last 30 years. His latest series and book, Orbital Planes, is a visual presentation of the entire decades-long journey.
Photobook Collective is a new website for photo book enthusiasts, where they can browse, buy, and sell in a community that is specifically designed to tailor to the niche needs of collectors.
David Wadelton understands that photography is a form of time travel. Small Business, his new book of photographs, transports us to Melbourne’s vanishing architecture of interior workplaces created by largely working-class, post-war immigrants from Europe.
Wu-Tang Clan is set to release an extremely limited run -- just 36 copies -- of a 300-page, signed photography book containing "rare and never before seen photos" of the hip hop group that comes enshrined in a massive 400-pound steel and bronze sculpture.
The COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns around have pushed artists to find new ways to work, publish, and teach. Renowned photographer Alec Soth is posting "rambling talks" to his YouTube channel, and in this 42-minute talk, Soth slowly flips through photo books by photographer William Eggleston and discusses the work.
If you're always on the hunt for limited edition photobooks and have ultra-deep pockets and bookshelves, here's one for your collection: the The Sistine Chapel. It's a giant $22,000 trilogy that contains views of the Sistine Chapel's art captured in gigapixel glory through 270,000 individual photos.
When I started freelancing as a professional photographer, I knew I had to put together a printed portfolio. Unfortunately, I found it very hard to find useful resources on the Internet on how to actually do this. As I had some experience in bookbinding I managed to bind my first book by myself, but after three books I realized that in this stage of my career, I needed to have something a little more flexible.
Wes Anderson has penned a foreword for a new photo book titled Accidentally Wes Anderson, which will be released by Voracious on October 20.
Photographer Roland Miller and Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli recently teamed up in a first-of-its-kind collaboration between an Earth-bound artist and a ISS-bound astronaut, to create a one-of-a-kind photo book that will appeal to space nerds and photography lovers alike.
A bible for photographers. That is how Robert Capa described The Decisive Moment by Henri Cartier-Bresson. After almost 70 years it was first published, this book has still a lot to say to photographers and especially to street and documentary photographers.
Back in 1844, English photography pioneer Henry Fox Talbot began publishing the seminal book The Pencil of Nature, the first photo book ever to be published commercially. As it's in the public domain, you can read the book in its entirety for free online over at Project Gutenberg.
For their surreal series Eyes as Big as Plates, Finnish-Norwegian artistic duo Karoline Hjorth and Riitta Ikonen have created a thought-provoking set of portraits that use "wearable sculptures" to blend humans into the surrounding landscape.
For his portrait series and photo book Women's Work, photographer Chris Crisman set out to pay homage to his mother and inspire his young daughter by highlighting pioneering women who are proving that there's no such thing as a "man's job."
Hoods - Möbius Edition may be the first-ever continuous, one-sided photography book. It is formed from a Möbius strip, a mathematical surface with only one side. This means that the book can be read from any starting point and to any point at which the reader wishes to stop or gets tired.
B.A. Van Sise is one of the world's busiest travel photographers and a Nikon travel photography ambassador. A frequent contributor to the Village Voice and Buzzfeed, his work has also been featured on the cover of the New York Times, on PBS NewsHour, the Daily Mail, and on NPR. A number of his photos are in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian.
Today marks one year to the day that my book went on sale. It’s a very personal project that means a huge amount to me. I wanted to write a post that not only reflects on the past year since the book became available, but also on the project itself. It took a huge amount of work to get to that stage in the first place.
OYAKO is a project by photographer Bruce Osborn that consists of portraits of Japanese parents and their children. The images show differences in things like occupation and fashion between generations.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art shared this 3.5-minute video in which renowned American photographer Robert Frank talks about how he shot his seminal 1958 photo book, The Americans. Reflecting on various photos from the project, Frank shares insights into the process behind the shots.
Vivian Maier is the nanny and American street photographer who posthumously became internationally famous after a 26-year-old real estate agent bought a box of 30,000 of her negatives at an estate sale for $400 in 2007. In addition to her captivating black-and-white photos, Maier also captured color images, some of which are being published in a book for the first time ever.