- The People’s Archive has acquired and cataloged the 1,900-plus photo collection of Chip Py as part of the Library’s Go-Go archive.
- Research shows that taking too many pictures can harm the brain’s ability to retain memories but also that being more intentional about the photos we take can help.
- The Smithsonian American Art Museum purchased rare photographs dating from the 1840s to the mid-1920s, including daguerreotypes made by three of the most prominent Black photographers of the19th century: James P. Ball, Glenalvin Goodridge, and Augustus Washington.
- The Event Horizon Telescope—a planet-scale array of ground-based radio telescopes—has obtained the first image of a supermassive black hole from more than a petabyte of data collected.
- One of the last photographs taken of Susan B. Anthony is going up for auction along with hundreds of other items found in an attic photography studio that had been abandoned for decades.
- National Geographic looks into the centuries-long struggle for Afghanistan through historic and modern images.
- For the past 38 years, photographer Peter Adams has photographed and interviewed hundreds of iconic photographers from all around the world for his ambitious project that launched recently on Kickstarter.
- Zenfolio is giving away over $1,000,000 worth of subscriptions of their portfolio plan to photography students.
- MPB unveiled the Photo and Video Kit Hall of Fame Class of 2021 inductees yesterday, voted on by visual storytellers.