Earlier this month, the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO) faced an internal revolt. Photographers objected to distributing official photographs of Sara Netanyahu that had been heavily retouched, some using AI, to make her appear younger. The manipulations were so extensive that veteran political journalist Shabi Gatenio, who broke the story in The Seventh Eye, warned…
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Let’s face it, iconic images bother us. They stand as an immovable beacon of our time, outside of it, impelling us at every sight, forcing us to admit their status as greater than any other. Because they are a statement about our world, about us, about who we are as a society, good or bad.…
Really Simple Licensing (RSL) emerged in 2024 as a technical response to AI companies training on web content without permission. Modeled after robots.txt, RSL allows website owners to declare machine-readable licensing terms for AI crawlers, specifying whether content may be used for training, whether compensation is required, and which AI agents are permitted. The promise…
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Every photojournalist carries two cameras: one that records light, one that records their growing certainty that they alone understand what the light means. The first camera is mechanical. Photons hit a sensor. A moment is captured. A fragment of reality, however subjective its framing, remains tethered to what occurred. The second camera is psychological. It…
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The 2025-2026 trend cycle has produced a curious consensus: blur is the new watermark. Grain is proof of life. Bad framing means a human was here. Stocksy‘s just-released Visual Insights 2026 report doubles down on this thesis harder than any competitor. Under the banner “Signs of Life,” they position photography as an “antidote to digital…
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…
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.…
There was a time, not too long ago, when brands bought attention by investing in images. Choosing the right photographer was not an afterthought; it was the strategy. A powerful image could define a campaign, carry a message, shape perception, and spark engagement. The audience was drawn in by the image itself, the photo came…
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…
Right about 10 years ago, I wrote an article that went viral and sparked a lot of debate. At the time, AI was just starting to show the tip of its beak, and image manipulation was already in full force thanks to a variety of very potent software like Adobe’s Photoshop. The origin of the…
A popular saying tells us that a photo is worth a thousand words. But what’s the value of those words if they’re meaningless? We’ve all read articles or books that say very little. Words, even in great numbers, can be deceptively useless. The same is true of images. Yes, photos often describe faster and 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…
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…
The Pentagon, under the directive of President Donald Trump’s executive order to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, has embarked on a massive purge of archival images. Over 26,000 images across all military branches have been flagged for removal, with estimates suggesting the total could reach as high as 100,000. You might expect this…
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…
