- Leica Camera USA is seeking three photographers to receive $10,000 and a year-long loan of a Leica Q2 to support a personal project expressed through the female perspective.
- Square Inc. started offering robot photography services for online sellers, spending more than $20,000 on a robot and dedicating 1,000 square feet of a New York warehouse for the project.
- Noticing the lack of images of women athletes in mainstream media, Alana Paterson started her latest project, “Title IX,” featuring female hockey players from 14 junior and college teams across the US and Canada.
- China has released the world’s first-ever photo of an albino giant panda. It’s a bear with all-white fur and reddish eyes.
- A group of high school students captures life in their town on the Ohio River in Appalachia in their photography project, “The All-American Town.”
- Lomography is raising funds for LomoChrome Metropolis R 100-400, a brand new color film designed to look like something out of an old movie or photo book.