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Sony and TSMC, Viltrox in Beijing, Martin Parr in Paris: the week tech caught up with the gaze

An industrial alliance that may redraw the sensor map, ten lenses unveiled in Beijing by Viltrox, two new bodies from Sony and Canon hitting reviewers' hands, and a classic taking its final bow in Paris — a week in which photography talked tech without forgetting the gaze.

World Press Photo 2026: the week photojournalism reclaimed the conversation

From the 2026 World Press Photo winners unveiled in Amsterdam to exhibitions opening across Europe this May, here's a look back at a pivotal week for documentary photography — with a contest season in full swing inviting authors to step forward.

Robert Mapplethorpe, beauty assumed

American photographer (1946-1989), portraitist, flower photographer, chronicler of New York's S/M scene.

Photo news · Week of May 1 to 7, 2026

Five days out from the big Canon / Sony Tuesday, the stage is being set. The World Press Photo tour lands in European capitals, Beijing prepares its P&E Imaging Show, and a Nikon development to watch.

AGO Film Processor — Vintage Visual automates the Paterson tank

Vintage Visual ships a programmable agitation device for Paterson tanks: agitation, timing and temperature compensation are automated, with ready-made B&W and colour presets.

Photo news · Week of April 27 to May 3, 2026

Film revival at Kodak and Harman, Leica opens its first flagship store-gallery in Chicago, and the Liberation Museum of Paris pays tribute to Robert Capa. The week in review.

Philippe Halsman, the revealing leap

Latvian-born American photographer (1906-1979), 101 Life covers, inventor of jumpology.

Arnold Newman, the environmental portrait

American photographer (1918-2006), inventor of the portrait set in the subject's working environment.

James Van Der Zee, Harlem in pictures

American photographer (1886-1983), who documented the Harlem Renaissance for half a century.

Edward S. Curtis, the grand inventory

American photographer (1868-1952), thirty years photographing the Indigenous peoples of North America.

Eugène Atget, the Paris that was

French photographer (1857-1927), who photographed nearly 8,000 views of "old Paris" threatened by Haussmann.

Photoshop, Generative Fill opens to partner models

December 2025: Adobe enriches Generative Fill with third-party AI engines available inside Photoshop.

Jacques Henri Lartigue, childhood in pictures

French photographer (1894-1986), who photographed his family's Belle Époque from age eight with an undimmed freshness.

Bill Brandt, shadow as material

German-born British photographer (1904-1983), portraitist, landscapist and explorer of the distorted nude.

Peter Lindbergh, the unretouched portrait

German photographer (1944-2019), who refused retouching and made black-and-white the signature of the supermodels.

Mary Ellen Mark, empathy without compromise

American photographer (1940-2015), who spent her career closest to the invisible: prostitutes, the homeless, the ill.

Eve Arnold, Magnum's first woman

American photographer (1912-2012), Magnum's first woman member, portraitist of Marilyn Monroe and Malcolm X.

Sony RX1R III, the return of the full-frame compact

July 2025: Sony revives the RX1R after a decade of silence, with a 61 MP sensor.

Larry Burrows, photographer of Vietnam

British photojournalist (1926-1971), nine years covering Vietnam for Life, killed on assignment in Laos.

Garry Winogrand, the avalanche of images

American photographer (1928-1984), New York street figure, who left 250,000 undeveloped negatives at his death.

Saul Leiter, colour ahead of its time

American photographer (1923-2013), forgotten pioneer of colour street photography, rediscovered in the 21st century.

Helmut Newton, eroticism assumed

German-Australian photographer (1920-2004), major fashion-photography figure, self-declared provocateur.

Irving Penn, the spare line

American photographer (1917-2009), master of fashion and stripped-down portraiture at Vogue.

Cecil Beaton, elegance and war

British photographer and set designer (1904-1980), royal portraitist and war reporter.

Weegee, the scanner of the New York night

Ukrainian-born American photographer (1899-1968), tabloid pioneer with a police-radio scanner in his car.

Tina Modotti, commitment and image

Italian photographer (1896-1942), Communist militant whose short photographic body of work shaped post-revolutionary Mexico.

Lewis Hine, photography in service of rights

American photographer (1874-1940), whose images of child labor helped pass the first U.S. child-labor laws.

DxO ViewPoint 5, geometry and perspective

October 2024: DxO updates its dedicated tool for geometry and perspective correction.

Karl Blossfeldt, the living archive

German photographer and sculptor (1865-1932), inventor of a botanical photography of abstract beauty.

Vivian Maier, the invisible photographer

American photographer (1926-2009), a nanny by trade whose clandestine work was discovered only after her death.

Lee Miller, from Vogue to Dachau

American photographer (1907-1977), Vogue model, Man Ray's student and lover, war correspondent.

Gerda Taro, the forgotten photographer

German-Jewish photographer (1910-1937), the first woman photographer to die on the front, long eclipsed by Robert Capa.

Margaret Bourke-White, Life's first woman photographer

American photographer (1904-1971), Life's first staff photographer, the first American woman war correspondent.

László Moholy-Nagy, the Bauhaus in pictures

Hungarian artist (1895-1946), Bauhaus teacher and theorist of a radically modern photography.

Willy Ronis, photography as tenderness

French photographer (1910-2009), with Ménilmontant and Belleville as his territory and humanism as his method.

Robert Doisneau, humanist humour

French photographer (1912-1994), figure of humanist photography and author of the Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville.

Brassaï, Paris by night

Hungarian-born French photographer (1899-1984), inventor of urban night photography.

Gordon Parks, the camera as weapon

American photographer and filmmaker (1912-2006), Life and Vogue's first Black staff photographer, civil rights activist with a camera.

W. Eugene Smith, photojournalism absolute

American photographer (1918-1978), a key Life figure who brought the photo-essay to its highest standard.

Paul Strand, the straight photograph

American photographer (1890-1976), the link between Stieglitz and modern documentary.

Alfred Stieglitz, photography as art

American photographer and gallerist (1864-1946), who established photography as a fine art in its own right.

Imogen Cunningham, seventy years of looking

American photographer (1883-1976), one of the first great professional photographers, active until age 93.

Edward Weston, the pure form

American photographer (1886-1958), who elevated everyday objects — a pepper, a shell — to pure abstraction.

Eadweard Muybridge, motion decomposed

British photographer (1830-1904), who proved horses gallop with all four hooves in the air, then invented chronophotography.

Julia Margaret Cameron, portraiture in the wet plate

British photographer (1815-1879), a pioneer of artistic portraiture in the 19th century, who took up photography at 48.

Man Ray, the experimenter

American artist (1890-1976), key figure of Dada and Surrealism, inventor of the rayograph.

Dorothea Lange, dignity in the crisis

American photographer (1895-1965), who showed a different America during the Great Depression.

Henri Cartier-Bresson, the decisive moment

French photographer (1908-2004), Magnum co-founder, who invented modern street photography with a Leica.

Richard Avedon, the portrait laid bare

American photographer (1923-2004), who raised fashion and author portraiture to an unmatched standard.

Berenice Abbott, chronicler of New York

American photographer (1898-1991) who saved Eugène Atget's archive and documented New York's 1930s transformation.

Ansel Adams, master of the landscape

American photographer (1902-1984), pioneer of the Zone System and bard of the American West.

DxO PhotoLab 6 is available

The french company DxO Labs just released a new version of its flagship product : DxO PhotoLab 6. This new version gives technical and functional improvements.

3 essential accessories for your camera

Here are 3 essential accessories for all photographers to take good photos in all circumstances and to have the perfect setup.

A doubly special day

Today, August 19, is a special day, a doubly special day. It's the World Photography Day and the World Humanitarian Aid Day. This is an opportunity for me to come back to my job: humanitarian photographer.

Walker Evans

Walker Evans, born November 3, 1903 in Saint-Louis, United States and died April 10, 1975, in New Haven, Connecticut, was an American documentary photographer.

How to get better RAW files

A magical software for perfect RAW files, but not only. DxO PureRAW version 2 makes it possible to continue working with its workflow.

How to attach tripod(s) to a backpack

The tripod is essential in reportage photography. Who says report says mobility and this question: how to attach a tripod to a backpack?

Photoclimat: first edition

The first edition of the Photoclimat social and environmental biennial takes place from September 18 to October 17, 2021 in Paris.

Vallerret : new lineup of photography glove

5 free photo exhibitions

Confinement, "reinforced braking measures", limitation of travel are all reasons that keep us away from museums. But thanks to the magic of internet, culture remains accessible!

5 cameras for children

Why not give a camera designed for children — or one tough enough to compete with your offspring's ingenuity? Here's a selection.

Nikon: the end of made in Japan

Tiny light meter: Lime One

Photographic exhibition "Femmes humanitaires"

Since December 17, 2020, one of my photos has been exhibited on the railings of the Quai d'Orsay in Paris. The exhibition is entitled "Humanitarian women".

Pantone's Color(s) 2021

Rugged suitcases, overview

Photokina trade show suspended

Strobist & Christmas french cookies

Photoshop CC2021 : sky replacement

Nikon F6: the last analog camera withdrawn from sale

It's coming soon: black Friday and therefore Christmas

White balance

Bill No. 3452 on global security

HydroChrome Sutton’s Panoramic Belair

Robert Capa

Pixii : French APS-C Rangefinder Camera

Christoph Wiesner: new Rencontres d'Arles director

August Sander

The Photography Show 2020 will be virtual

Strobist & Lomo LCA

Law proposal No. 2992 by french deputy Eric Ciotti

Eric Ciotti's bill No. 2992

Starting price : 400 000 € for a Leica 0 prototype

Lab-box : student program

Death of photographer Astrid Kirchherr

Death of photographer Peter Beard

COVID-19 : Cancellation of the rencontres d'Arles

COVID-19 : improve his photography practice

COVID-19 survivors

Irix Lens

Tiny light meter : Reveni Labs Light meter

COVID-19 : Photographing in an epidemic context

Strobist & Polaroid 1000

COVID-19 : first reportages

Clément Chéroux : MoMA’s new chief curator for photography

COVID-19 : Cancellation of CP+2020

For Sale ! Auto Yashinon-DX 50mm f/1.4

New Canon printer SELPHY Square QX10

MeeroDrop : a new sharing tool for photographies

Thousands of photographs to download

How to take picture with a smartphone

Samsung SSD T7 Touch

Canon unveils the EOS 1D-X Mk III

2020 : Dream big, work hard

2020: Dream big, work hard

Photographing in cold weather

World Press : open for entries on 2 December 2019

Sea-thru: A Method For Removing Water From Underwater Images

Photography at the Academy of Sciences

The inventors of photography

New gallery: Hurrican Irma

Emile Zola, the photographer

Iwo Jima photo: the Marines correct a second error

Bayeux-Calvados Prize 2019: Focus on Syria

Print run of 280,000 copies

Death of photographer Robert Frank

André Kertész

Death of photographer Peter Lindbergh

Death of photographer Peter Lindbergh

Lightroom update

Les Américain / The Americans

In 1958, 83 photos revolutionized photo-reportage. Robert Frank signs Les Américains, an essential book

A look inside the Ilford factory

LomoChrome Metropolis XR 100–400 film

Film development: two Android apps

Film development: Lab-Box

1,407 images over 195 hours of travel to the Moon

Strobist & bicycle

Strobist & bicycle

Memoria, photographs by James Nachtwey

New gallery: Mali

Cameras: the one essential button!

Depth of field and photojournalism

PhotoStream SP 200 : a new Lowepro photo suitcase

Lytro goes dark

Brussels Street Photography Festival - BSPF 2018

Lomo LC-A: already 25 years old

When I Was a Photographer, by Nadar

Arles 2018: the programme

Photo books and reuse

Hensel distributed by MMF-Pro

Quick camera settings

€2,400,000 for a Leica 0

Niepcebook #07

Nadar, the first of photographers

Sentinelles, they watch over Paris

The age of reason: Nicolas Beaumont Pictures turns 7

Presidential photo: Emmanuel Macron

Richard Ferrand: smoker or fraud?

Exceptional Magnum sale

NASA photograph sale

Polaroid: something new

Faces Places, awarded at Cannes

Photokina 2018+

LandscapePro v2: available

New Minister of Culture

Death of photographer Stanley Greene

Operational guide for fighting Ebola

2017 Reportage Portfolio

The SX-70 turns 45

5 exhibitions to see during the Mois de la Photo du Grand Paris

The Grand Paris Month of Photography

New gallery: SAMU 13

Two new Bergger B&W films available

Photography festivals 2017

The Polaroid Pop unveiled at CES 2017

The photos on Melania Trump's Twitter

LightyShare

New gallery: China 2011

Leica officially unveils the M10

The return of Kodak Ektachrome

Best wishes for 2017

Playboy France: the new face of the rabbit

256 pages of travels: Brèves de voyages

Vote and win!

The decisive moment: the assassination of Andrei Karlov

Sale on fine-art prints

World Press and Swiss Press Photo 2016

Playboy France: the rabbit will wake up

How does a professional photographer travel? 2/3

Death (suicide?) of photographer David Hamilton

Black Friday 2016

A Libé front page: is this politics?

What can you see at the 17th Carnet de Voyage festival

The first lady Trump : naked !

Salon de la Photo 2016

Manfrotto 055 tripod review

17th Carnet de voyage rendezvous

Why you should buy an Impossible I-1

Avedon's France — Old World, New Look

Saint-Brieuc Bay Photoreporter Festival 2016

Keegan, a robot that rates your photos

Lomo lens: Daguerreotype Achromat 2.9/64 Art Lens

New gallery: Luxembourg

Brussels Street Photography Festival

2016: 23rd edition of the Bayeux-Calvados Prize

Les forêts profondes — In the time of Ebola

Lightmeters

World Rescue Corps drill gallery (CMS USAR)

Biskra, spells of an oasis

Weegee by Weegee at the Charleroi Museum of Photography

Barbra Streisand as seen by Steve Schapiro and Lawrence Schiller

How does a professional photographer travel? 1/3

SanDisk SDXC: destination 1 TB

Peli 1535 Air Carry-On Case

Download Strobist 101 and change your photography

Leica Sofort: a newcomer to instant photography

"Life-saving behaviours" — behind the scenes!

Photokina 2016: Imaging unlimited

Landscape Pro: photo retouching reinvented

Call for entries: Picto Young Fashion Photography Prize

Para-athletics World Championships gallery

Death of photographer Marc Riboud at the age of 93

Bayeux-Calvados Prize 2016: war correspondents

SAMU 974 gallery

The Olympics in photos

World Days: Photography & Humanitarian Action

Interview on Stampaprint.fr

From Lightroom to Instagram: no stopping!

Ebola survivors

Laowa 12 mm f/2.8: over 5,000%

World Press Photo exhibition

Use your flash: in daylight!

European Nude Photography Festival 2016

Travel to China in 2010

2016 Pulitzer Prize

100 photos by Sebastião Salgado for press freedom

Follow-focus rings for Zeiss lenses: Lens Gear

The 2015 Emmaus Show

Impossible announces the I-1

Road rescue demonstration by the French team

Free photos (and legal)

Doing without a wedding photographer

What does a fashion show photographer do?

Underwater exhibitions: Andreas Franke

Cropping for social networks: Landscape

Pope Francis on Instagram

Jungleye at Lille's MP

Being a photojournalist today: a book takes stock

The Photography Show 2016

Bettina Rheims: stars laid bare