Hungarian Press Photo Comtest’s results were announced today. There are a lot of winners who were awarded in recent years as well, but this time there were four time as many freelancers among them as were the last year.

The “beauty” of protocol photography when Obama administration lets photographers do their work for a SHORT time. Photographers and cameramen had a ten second opportunity to fight in front of a window for a shot of the president working at his desk.

Interesting social experiment using the tools of photography and model retouching. Everyday women have been transformed into cover girls who in the end turned out not to like the result better. They actually prefer accepting their original look instead of the altered but fake one portrayed by the retouched photos. We just don’t know if they are really honest in this video.

More photographers had to be disqualified from the final of this year’s World Press Photo contest because their creators performed minor alterations despite both contest rules and industry standards forbid this.

The popular photo sharing website has been selling photos before as well, but they now plan to launch a photo agency service. Their slogan is “Accessing Talent” and they claim being the largest photography community of the world. Many of their users however think they joined those who devalue talent and they only want to rip off photographers contributing to the site.

The 65 year old James Nachtwey still goes to the most dangerous places on Earth. At the moment he is pressing his luck in Thailand. This weekend he has been shot by a bullet. The war photographer who has been the subject of the documentary bearing the same title is okay now however and he continued work after his wounds have been taken care of.

Photo editors at Hungarian news website Origo found a photo that seems to be retouched before publication on the website of one of the radio channels operated by BBC. A portrait of one of the musicians has been cropped out from a group shot and some details in the background have been cloned out. BBC claims it is not a faking of the photo because the photo is not used as a news image.

Hones confession from a blogger about why he stopped publishing new posts. His opinion may be way too negative but alarming too for wannabe bloggers. Of course you can use his words to know what kind of demotivation you will need to fight if you start blogging. InPhoto Blog is written in Hungarian so it is […]

UK publisher Johnston Press fires all their photogprahers working at their titles in England. Chicago Sun-Times had a sticky example followed by other companies – money talks and quality doesn’t matter. Hold the Front Page wrote this time a UK paper starts to lay off all of its photographers. Just like Hungarian publisher PLT did not so long ago, […]

A Danish news TV programme recently used a screenshot from a computer game as a Syrian backdrop for their report on the conflict. The rather embarrassing mistake forced the TV2 broadcaster to issue an apology afterwards.