- The Washington Post has launched a new photo blog.
- These photos of the fire in the Sierra are intense.
- At Photokina, Panasonic has announced a new pocket-sized camera featuring an f/2.8 Leica lens, with 28mm equivalent field of view, and a 1 inch sensor. Oh, did we mention it’s also an Android phone?
- Faceplants and apples: A Visual History of Kids Being Unimpressed with President Obama.
- Eric Kim experienced the Magnum Workshop in Provincetown, since you couldn’t be there.
- Australian photographer Ashley Gilbertson photographs dead soldiers’ rooms to highlight the costs of war.
- Andrew Ward takes photos of discarded couches around Los Angeles.
- Long-lost photographs depict the first black people to ever be photographed in Britain. The portraits of the African Choir, a South African musical group that toured the U.K. between 1891 and 1893, were last seen in a London newspaper in 1891.
- Newsha Tavakolian returned a 50,000-Euro prize rather than see her work about contemporary Iran be controlled — distorted, she says — by the financier whose foundation selected her.
- And how about some more volcano photos? The eruption of Mount Mayon is causing the evacuation of thousands of people in the Philippines.
- The Royal Observatory just announced their annual photo winners.
- This is how photographers capture those slick photos of military jets.
- And finally, photographer Lara Hawker can help you find the tiger in yourself.
