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Official trailer for intriguing new documentary about the lost photos of street photographer Vivian Maier (VIDEO)

 
 

Now here's something we were excited to see: the official trailer for an intriguing new documentary about the lost photos of street photographer Vivian Maier. Titled "Finding Vivian Maier," the movie follows the 2007 discovery of the photos by Chicago historian John Maloof, who helped bring worldwide attention to Maier's...

International Loupe Award winners includes dramatic photo of Leopard Seal gobbling up a penguin

Amongst the recent winners of the International Loupe Awards, we were struck by this photo showing a Leopard Seal about to gobble up a penguin in Antarctica.

 
Image by Amos Nachoum

The stunning image by underwater photographer Amos Nachoum captured fifth place in the Science and Nature category of the awards. (Yes, we...

James Bond-worthy “Penguin-cam” helps BBC filmmakers create intimate documentary about penguins in Antarctica

 
 

When producers of a BBC documentary about penguins in Antarctica wanted to get up close and personal while filming these cute creatures they knew they they'd need spy technology worthy of James Bond. So, they created "Penguin Cam," a group of life-like penguins equipped with cameras, which could capture the daily world...

Pro Profile: Documentary photographer Josh Cogan captures humanity’s hidden stories

 
 

Josh Cogan's background in anthropology gives him a unique perspective as a photographer, and his passion for traveling around the world to document its peoples, cultures and traditions gives us a rare glimpse at humanity's hidden stories. We were struck both by the beauty of his portraits and by the ways he pushes the...

Harrowing video shows BBC cameraman attacked in arctic pod by hungry polar bear

 
 

Yes, polar bears might look all cute and cuddly but they are extremely dangerous animals, especially when they're hungry, as this harrowing video shows.

In the below clip, filmmaker Gordon Buchanan is housed in a plexiglass pod -- sort of an arctic shark cage -- in Svalbard, Norway, shooting footage for a BBC...

Incredible, interactive gigapixel photo of Mount Everest makes you feel like you’re really there

 
 

Only a few brave (lucky?) souls get to visit Mount Everest every year, and for those who do go it can be an arduous and expensive trip. Thankfully there are people through whom you can live vicariously, like cinematographer and photographer David Breashears, who made the acclaimed IMAX documentary "Everest."
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Military photojournalist talks about life under fire in gripping new documentary (VIDEO)

 
 

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a photojournalist for the military? As a photographer for the United States Air Force, Staff Sgt. Ryan Crane does just that, documenting life in the combat zone during recent deployments to Afghanistan.

A revealing new documentary by Hannah Hill, titled "Snap Snap...

Fearless photographer recounts battling back from childhood shooting in powerful short film

 
 

If you ever wondered about the transformative power of photography, you should watch this moving short film by Mike Allebach called "Fearless Jaleel King: Against All Odds."

When King was just eight years old, he almost died when an angry neighbor shot him with a sawed-off shotgun. When King woke up in the hospital...

Photographers on photography: Q&A with Anton Kusters on his Japanese gangster “Yakuza” photo project

 
©Anton Custers

About a month ago, we read an interview with photographer Anton Kusters in Steward Magazine describing his Yakuza project, which documented the life of Japanese gangsters in photos.

While it was an interesting interview that featured Kusters' powerful photos of the yakuza, we felt there was more to the...