The Brooks Institute of Photography has announced that Leica Cameras will sponsor its 2008 documentary trip for students of the Visual Journalism program. Leica will provide training for the students before they depart on their trip, as well as Leica M8 digital rangefinder cameras and various interchangeable Leica M lenses.

Visual Journalism instructor Paul Myers will accompany 26 students on a seven-week journey through Southern India from November to December 2008 to chronicle the cultures of the region...

Frank Dabba Smith, a California-born rabbi currently living in England, recently released a history of the Leitz family, the German founders of Leica cameras. "The Greatest Invention of the Leitz Family: The Leica Freedom Train" is an account of the efforts of Ernst Leitz II, the family’s Protestant patriarch, to establish safe emigration routes for Jews to leave Germany in the guise of Leitz employees being assigned overseas.

Employees, retailers, family members and their friends were assigned to...

Leica's C-Lux 1 is the first model in a new line of digital compact cameras that features a compact design, fully retractable optics and 6-megapixel capture. The smallest Leica digital to date, the C-Lux 1 offers a selection of modes to suit different photographic situations, an optical image stabilizer to counteract camera shake and a 2.5-inch display.

The C-Lux 1 also incorporates a DC Vario-Elmarit f/2.8-5.6/4.6-16.8 aspherical zoom lens with a...

Magnum photographer Elliot Erwitt was presented with the 2003 Leica Lifetime Achievement Award at a photography exhibition in his honor at the Leica Gallery in New York City late last year.

Whether you're perusing the 53 dreamlike models and dancers in his latest photo book, The Apparitions, or marveling at the blur of a snarling attack dog in a recent ad he shot for Sony Playstation, there's no denying that R. J. Muna's photos make the pulse quicken. Less clear is how his wispy images gather so much force from such ethereal foundations.

In Muna's latest book, says photographer Owen Edwards, "What Muna wanted to track down wasn't just the spirits that flit through our dreams, both waking and sleeping, but whatever it was that brought them up from the depths."

Throughout his career, says Edwards, "Muna has created photographic versions of these invented glimpses...