Ilford Photo has developed a 315-grams-per-square-meter, fiber-based baryta paper for digital laser printers. The Galerie FB Digital has the ability to be exposed in digital laser printers (Lightjet and Lambda), writing directly from digital files. The paper's spectral sensitivity, combined with the archival benefits of traditional fiber-based black-and-white papers, allows photographers to create...

 The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin has acquired the archive of photographer Arnold Newman.

Newman, who died in June 2006, was recognized as a master of environmental portraits taken in the subjects' personal or professional surroundings. His work includes images of such 20th-century luminaries as Lyndon Baines Johnson, Pablo Picasso and Truman Capote.

The archive spans the late 1930s to the current decade...

Citing construction in the neighborhood, as well as the proliferation of galleries showing and selling photographic works, Guy Swanson has closed his Photographic Image Gallery in Portland, Ore., after nearly 23 years. Swanson will teach a class for artists at Portland Community College, and has teamed up with Cherie Hiser to do seminars, workshops and portfolio reviews...

Although the official film of the execution of Saddam Hussein stopped short of his actual death, viewers around the world were privy to his final seconds thanks to an enterprising Iraqi citizen with a cell-phone camera.

Baby boomers may remember Dick Tracy's wristwatch/camera/phone, but few of us really expected to see them on a daily basis in schools, convenience stores, ball games and everywhere else people gather.

Video produced via cell phone has found a perfect outlet...

At the suggestion of the News Media Guild's health and safety committee, the Associated Press will fund a $20,000 study of pho-tographer and videographer injuries that will serve as the basis for an injury prevention program, the guild reported on its web site.

Surveys conducted by the guild over a six-year period revealed that photographers and videographers, who make up 10 percent of AP's workforce, accounted for approximately 40 percent of the company's reported injuries. Nearly two-thirds of the respondents...

Kubota Image Tools has designed a set of image enhancement software for Photoshop. Artistic Tools Volume Three builds on the previous releases, Volumes One and Two, and features 50 new actions, such as a variety of color enhancements for Photoshop CS or newer. Highlights include Velveteen, Satin B/W, Renaissance, Fashion Passion, Washout, Super Heroine and Deep Forest. In addition, several new scripts have been added to...

Viewing this photo set, one might think that Robin Bartholick was born in the wrong century. In this world, men still wear homburgs and bowler hats. Women are still seen with petticoats and parasols. Circuses are still the greatest shows on earth.

His subjects seem about as grounded in old-fashioned reality as can be – until you notice that most of them are doing impossible things in unreal dreamscapes.

Bartholick's early-20th-century look, however, comes from cutting-edge, 21st-century technology, such as Photoshop and the Canon EOS-1Ds digital camera. Each photo is painstakingly assembled from several other images, manipulated digitally and then stitched together to create a believable tableau...

The Stock Artists Alliance (SAA), an international association of stock photographers, has voted to expand its mission to address the business interests of all professional stock photographers. Previously, SAA limited its purview to the licensing of rights-managed images.

SAA's board of directors proposed the amendments to the association's bylaws to recognize the evolution within the current membership. The changes, the directors claim, will strengthen the association and increase its influence in the industry. SAA holds that the best business models for photographers are those that manage usage and protect intellectual property.

Last year, an SAA survey of its members revealed...

In the second week of this year, officials at Time Inc. announced that the company would be laying off 289 employees, including four staff photographers. That number represents nearly 3 percent of the company's total workforce.

Although the publisher did not disclose the personnel choices at individual magazines, nearly one-third of the lost jobs are reported to be among administrative and business staff, and the rest will encompass editorial and photographic employees at magazines across the company's library. Many of the company's titles have contracts with the Newspaper Guild, which requires that guild members...

"I wanted this to be a series of hero stories," says Phil Borges, author of "Women Empowered." His new book of portraits celebrates the contributions of women from developing nations who are playing a significant role in executing lasting social change.

"I consider these women on the vanguard of a global shift to bring feminine power back into the human experience," he says. "It's a slow shift that's happening right now. These are the unsung and unknown heroes on the vanguard of that movement."

Partnering with the organization CARE, Borges' "Women Empowered" builds upon the humanity, character and purpose of his previous works. His books "Enduring Spirit" and "Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion" effectively raised awareness about the issues faced by people in the developing world...