Exactly 10 years after the first plane hit, New York City police officer Danny Shea, a veteran of the Afghanistan war, snapped a salute at the corner of the reflecting pool that stands on the footprint of what was the North Tower. Just as he was a decade ago, photojournalist David Handschuh was there to share the moment with the world.

Handschuh was struck by the angular geometry of the scene, with the flag-draped One World Trade Center rising in the background. It summed up the sense of grief, solemnity and renewal that infused the event...

Hollywood photographer David Strick lost a legal battle against the Los Angeles Times this month, when a federal judge ordered arbitration rather than a jury trial over a dispute involving the online usage of his images.

Strick first filed suit against the paper in May, claiming that the Times used 510 of his images on...

While Photoshop can be used to remove those unwanted zits and wrinkles from your personal photos, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ordered cosmetic maker L'Oréal to retract two heavily retouched ads currently running in Britain.

The ads in question — one of actress Julia Roberts and the other of model Christy Turlington — are both lacking...

The first version of the PLUS (Picture Licensing Universal System) Registry is now online and undergoing beta testing. The site provides free PLUS membership and free registration of people and businesses.

Aimed mostly at nonprofit groups, the PLUS Registry will provide instant identification of image creators, image rights holders, images and...

Renowned civil rights photographer Ernest Withers was outed this past year as an active FBI informant. Now the Memphis Commercial Appeal is suing the FBI for the release of Withers’ complete FBI informant file.

Allegedly, Withers used his photojournalism connections between 1968 and 1970 to help the FBI gain access to...

After more than two months of beta testing among its users, Twitter announced on Aug. 10 that Twitter Images was available to the masses.

Making third-party applications such as TwitPic and yfrog unnecessary, Twitter’s new photo-sharing services enable users to add images of up to 3MB in size to a tweet by clicking the camera icon at the bottom of the page. The image appears as a thumbnail in the feed, but can be enlarged on the right-hand side of the page...

Once again, photojournalists skirting the forefront of conflict have been met with violence — this time in the middle of the London riots.

The four-day riot began on Aug. 6 as a peaceful protest in response to the police shooting of Mark Duggan two days earlier. Protests quickly inflamed and led to rioting, muggings, looting and arson...

The International Imaging Industry Association (I3A) recently announced the three winners of its Visions 2020 Imaging Innovation Awards program: InVisage Technologies, 36Pix and Aptina Imaging.

The gold medal was awarded to InVisage Technologies Inc. for its...