Photography

In its third year, the Nature TTL Photographer of the Year contest has quickly become an impressive nature photo contest. This year’s highlights range from a glimpse at a caracal hunting in Tanzania to a shot of a moth covered in tiny balls of pollen.

Named after renowned photographer David Malin, the Southern Hemisphere’s most prestigious astrophotography competition has delivered a stellar collection of images celebrating everything from stunning deep space snaps to more earthbound nightscapes.

Now in its fourth year, each edition of the Minimalist Photography Awards continues to impress with its celebration of all things simple, and this year's winners carry this torch in awe-inspiring style.

Invented in the late 1800s, kinegrams were a simple form of animation that predated the first animated movies. A team from MIT has now given the technology a digital makeover, in the form of the one-off KineCAM.

The Urban Photo Awards is an always impressive street photography contest, reliably delivering a weird assortment of strange snaps highlighting oddball moments of spontaneity from around the world. Here's a handpicked selection of this year’s finalists.

For anyone with even a passing interest in ornithology, the annual Audubon Photography Awards is like Christmas in July. Now in its 13th year, the contest consistently delivers a spectacular collection of images highlighting rarely photographed bird behaviors.

The greatest space photography competition in the universe has revealed its 2022 shortlist and its nothing short of spectacular – from a stunning moonrise over an ancient tower to a glimpse of the Milky Way above the highest motorway in the world.

Presented by the California Academy of Sciences, the BigPicture Competition annually delivers an incredible collection of nature photographs. This year’s shots span from a bizarre cactus bee mating ritual to a surreal glimpse at a sea star spawning.

Nikon has launched its third DX format mirrorless camera, following the Z 50 from 2019 and last year's Z fc. The new model shares much with both of its ancestors, and is being aimed directly at vloggers, streamers and other content creators.

Insta360 has announced a powerful new addition to the One RS modular actioncam system launched back in March. The 1-Inch 360 Edition shoots immersive 6K video and is the first 360-degree camera to be co-engineered with Leica.

German engineer Gaurav Singh has designed and built an industrial USB box camera in a custom 3D-printed case that not only accepts interchangeable lenses, but the image sensor can also be swapped out as needed.

The Creative Photo Awards is different from your average photo contest. Celebrating post-production techniques and digital manipulations, this contest aims to redefine the art of photography and this year’s winners are defiantly weird and wonderful.

Vienna’s Leitz Photographica Auctions celebrated its 20th year in business this week when it sold the camera of the man who invented 35-mm photography for €14,400,000, smashing the previous world record of €2,400,000.

Samsung wants the world to witness the power of its fully armed, operational and wildly unnecessary 200-megapixel Isocell HP1 smartphone camera sensor. So it's taken a picture of a cat, and printed it at 1.5 times the size of a basketball court.

It's been a few years since Fujifilm took the refresh brush to its X Series flagship, but that's now changed with the launch of the X-H2S APS-C mirrorless camera – which boasts a brand new CMOS sensor, 40-fps continuous shooting and 6.2K video chops.