Photographer

There are few photography subjects more fascinating and beautiful than the cosmos itself, and the annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition highlights that. The shortlist for 2023 has now been published, starring some stunning shots of the Sun, our majestic Milky Way, and awe-inspiring aurorae.Run by Royal Museums Greenwich in the UK, the Astronomy Photographer of the Year is the world’s largest competition of its kind, and as past galleries attest, it always attracts some incredible images from…

Hollywood star Tom Cruise went behind the lens to photograph `Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One` co-stars Hayley Atwell, Pom Klementieff and Vanessa Kirby at the Seoul premiere of the film. The Hollywood legend delighted fans at the premiere of his new movie in Seoul when he briefly commandeered a photographer`s camera to take a snap of his co-stars. "This guy loves to give his leading ladies the spotlight," Atwell captioned a video of the moment she shared on Instagram on Friday. In the clip, a…

There’s passion in this heartrending documentary from film-maker Paul Sng, comparable to his excellent earlier film about Poly Styrene, of X-Ray Spex. It is about the Tyneside photographer Tish Murtha who chronicled working-class lives in the north east in the 70s and 80s (and also those of Soho sex workers in London), earning for herself the nickname “Demon Snapper” in the papers.She showed the reality of poverty and deprivation in communities where the misery of unemployment had been allowed to settle by the Westminster…

Michael Lamont, who appeared in the original Broadway productions of Bye Bye Birdie and Oliver! before launching a second career as a production photographer, died May 21 in Los Angeles after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease, a publicist announced. He was 76. In the late 1960s, Lamont moved from New York to L.A. to continue his acting career and play drums for the rock band Group Therapy. After working in episodic television, a friend asked him to photograph his headshots, and he discovered a passion…

Humans have used the northern star to help safely navigate for thousands of years. But what if I said that there is a nebula hiding near Polaris, and now a photographer has managed to capture a beautiful image of that nebula? Photographer Harry Jones recently shared his capture of Polaris’ hidden nebula on both Reddit and Instagram. He also has a print available for sale on his website, showcasing the full beauty of the faint nebula that was first discovered in 2005 by amateur astronomer Steve Mandel.…

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The first rock photograph Jill Furmanovsky ever took was of Paul McCartney, two friends and an elbow. It was 1967 – if her memory serves – and she was 13 years old, whiling away her days outside Abbey Road Studios in the hope of befriending a Beatle. Keeping track of the band’s whereabouts in a fanclub magazine she and tens of thousands others received in the post each month, Furmanovsky read that McCartney had recently moved to St John’s Wood and decided to pay him a visit. “I took the picture outside his house,” she…

Jos Avery was given a camera almost four decades ago, sparking a lifelong fascination with photography.But last September he found a new creative outlet, one that led him to deceive thousands of people: the artificial intelligence program Midjourney, which generates wild and wonderful images from brief text instructions. "Soon after starting with Midjourney, I became obsessed with the creative possibilities," Avery told AFP. Midjourney and rivals like DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion generate unique pictures by mashing up a…

A herd of elk crossing the Bow River on Sunday morning caught the eye of wildlife photographer Hunter Scrimshaw. He stopped to snap a few images of the herd near Mount Rundle in Banff, Alta., not far from the town's pedestrian bridge.While he was checking his shots, he heard a loud crack. "Sure enough, I look back and one of the calves had fallen through the ice," he said. The calf began to struggle in the frigid water, kicking to keep its head above the surface. The commotion startled the herd, Scrimshaw said, noting…

Jos Avery was given a camera almost four decades ago, sparking a lifelong fascination with photography. But last September he found a new creative outlet, one that led him to deceive thousands of people: the artificial intelligence program Midjourney, which generates wild and wonderful images from brief text instructions."Soon after starting with Midjourney, I became obsessed with the creative possibilities," Avery told AFP. Midjourney and rivals like DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion generate unique pictures by mashing up a…