DIGITAL CAMERAS AND BACKS Leica Unveils Ultra-High-Resolution S2 DSLR Leica has released its latest high-end camera, the S2 Digital SLR. The S2 is equipped with professional-quality 37.5-megapixel resolution and high-speed Maestro image processing, and is compatible with four available S-series lens...

A New Uncertain Age of Photojournalism Gary Halpern © Davis Freeman Since photojournalism was the basis for my photographic experience, our biennial revisit to the subject is perhaps my favorite issue to research, as it allows me to return to my roots. As history unfolds, there’s always...

Jesse Alexander, a celebrated motor-sports photographer from Santa Barbara, Calif., was given the Star Driver award by Mercedes-Benz this summer for his artistic contributions to the automobile industry. Alexander’s most famous work includes his images from the 1954 French Grand Prix in Reims and...

GETTY IMAGES SYNDICATES L.A. TIMES CELEBRITY IMAGES Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Johnny Depp and Cameron Diaz are just a few of the faces picked up by Getty Images in August through a deal to subsidize celebrity images by Los Angeles Times photographers. This new collection of images will...

By Randy Woods Rob Sinclair’s nighttime image of Castle Geyser in Yellowstone National Park is proof that if a hydrothermal eruption happens and there are no tourists there to gawk at it, it’s still beautiful. Copyright © Rob Sinclair   Shot in October 2006, the image is part...

Social networking websites are the talk of the town, but how can they help your business? By Rosh Sillars Supporters exalt it as the great advance in communication. Detractors consider it a waste of time. Like it or not, the phenomenon of social media empowers the public at large to capture and disseminate...

Through the use of interactive media and print-on-demand technology, Rick Smolan has pushed the limits of the photography book and brought the world closer together. By P.J. Heller In the assignment photography world, the best in the business tend to thrive on pressure – the pressure of looming...

Through new distribution platforms, multimedia formats and teamwork, today’s photojournalists are trying to resurrect a moribund industry. By Randy Woods BREAKING NEWS – Photojournalism, the use of images to tell stories and convey information about topical events, from the Crimean War to...

Omar Nassih, an interpreter who worked extensively with photographer Rick Loomis in Afghanistan, shares a lighthearted moment in his war-torn country. Sadly, however, Nassih died from an accident in his home while Loomis was away covering the war in Iraq. See more of Loomis’ work , click here. To...

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Rick Loomis always remembers to put people first when telling his visual stories. By Hermon Joyner I might die.” That was the thought running through the head of Rick Loomis, photojournalist with The Los Angeles Times, while he was embedded with a company...