Eric Colmet Daage as reported by a Google search

There are, perhaps, three stages in one’s relationship with photography: ignorance, interest, and enthusiasm. Eric Colmet Daage lived in a fourth, an unrestrained passion. And unlike most of us, whose love for images tends to orbit one genre, Eric’s passion embraced them all: photojournalism, sports, fashion, fine art, historical archives, and documentary. If a photograph Read More →

a generated image of a camera and birthday elements to symbolize the birthday of photography

Photography is unusual among technologies: it has no single birthday. Was it 1727, when Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered light-sensitive salts? 1826, when Nicéphore Niépce fixed his “View from the Window”? 1839, when Daguerre unveiled the daguerreotype? Or 1841, when Talbot introduced the negative-positive calotype? Each date is valid. Each is incomplete. That ambiguity is telling. Read More →

  Left: Released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office. Right: Distributed by TASS, the Russian state news agency. One was published globally without question. The other sparked outrage when it won a prize. Both serve a narrative. Both come from official sources. But only one is called propaganda. If we’re serious about image credibility, we Read More →

On a TASS Agency photographer awarded for coverage of anti-Russian protests in Georgia. Photography never lies, or so we often hear. But can the same be said of the person behind the camera? This question is currently igniting debate within the photojournalism community following the award given to a photographer from TASS—Russia’s official state news Read More →

In a world where images are omnipresent, the question of truth in photography remains as relevant as ever. As Karl Popper suggested about science, the objectivity of photojournalism does not stem from the individual photographer but from the medium itself. To paraphrase him : “It would be a mistake to believe that photographers are more Read More →

When people think of photography’s major technological breakthroughs, they often highlight the shift from analog to digital. But there’s another, less celebrated innovation that arguably changed the game even more: auto-focus. Far from being a convenient feature, auto-focus has transformed photography from a craft requiring intense skill, experience, and training into an activity anyone can Read More →