Latest articles by Alan Palazon
The zoo housing Punch, the viral baby monkey, wants to ban photos – but a ban could have unintended consequences
Opinion Ichikawa City Zoo may ban taking photos after a US tourist jumped into the monkey enclosure to record social media content with the famous macaque
300 images from from Newton, Avedon, Penn and more on display at Yves Saint Laurent exhibition
News The YSL exhibition will explore the intimate relationship between the couturier and photography through a vast collection of some 300 images and memorabilia
Nearly 2,000 works from more than 450 artists will create a display of 200 years of photographic history
News The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is set to open five photography galleries next year, where many of the recently donated works will be displayed
12 images across 12 topics in just 24 hours: Oxford Photomarathon challenges photographers to “embrace imperfection”
News The “24-hour photographic adventure” prioritizes speed and creativity with participants capturing an array of images with a tight turnaround
Meet William Constable: The unsung pioneer of photography who helped pave the way for portraiture
News Constable was a 19th-century daguerreotype photographer who captured the first ever photo of British royalty
Elusive Indonesian parrot “lost” to science photographed for only the second time in 100 years
News This rare lorikeet was discovered in 1920 and had only been photographed once, in 2014 – until conservationists spotted it again in April
Disputed historic Kodacolor photo of John F. Kennedy's final motorcade belongs to museum, court rules
News The court ruled that the image – snapped shortly before Kennedy was killed – belonged to the official JFK museum in Dallas, despite claims from a private collector that he was the owner
Henri Cartier-Bresson would approve of this Nat Geo award-winning street photo capturing a decisive moment between the real and art world
News The image is a brilliant example of Cartier-Bresson’s “Decisive Moment” philosophy: the split second when all elements of a scene come together in perfect harmony
Are disposable cameras still environmentally justifiable, with cheap reusable point-and-shoot alternatives available?
News "I do think that disposables are definitely one of the worst cases for film photography." Is it time to ditch what is arguably photography’s most wasteful practice?
A major film festival will soon debut the first fully AI-generated feature, inspired by real events. This could be a major shift for filmmaking
Opinion As the Tribeca Film Festival gears up to screen the divisive movie, are we looking at a future where all movies are created without a single actor or set?
Really Right Stuff's most affordable carbon fiber tripod yet still holds up to 40 pounds for pro-grade gear
News RRS has unveiled its most affordable carbon fiber tripod lineup yet with the new Core Line promising the brand's signature stability
Viltrox cut its premium prime lens in half – and it still took surprisingly pleasing photos!
News Viltrox recently sawed one of its fast autofocus lenses in half – but how did it still manage to capture impressive images?
This controversial exhibition lets you destroy cameras – but it’s only possible because of the frightening rate of tech churn
Opinion The coming Belfast Photo Festival will let you smash up perfectly good cameras – I struggle to stomach this, but the bigger issue is how quickly these models were made obsolete by the never-ending stream of newer tech
This eerie photograph of the 1933 Nazi book-burning images demonstrates the importance of shutter speed in a terrifying way
HISTORY This slow shutter image, taken during the infamous Book Burning at the Opernplatz, captured the charged, frightening atmosphere that night in 1933
These award-winning photos pull on all the heartstrings in the most nostalgic way
News This year’s winners of the OpenWalls Spotlight Awards have been announced, and the images evoke the deepest sense of longing for home and nostalgia for times gone by
Eerie photograph of Oscar Wilde on his deathbed sells at auction for whopping US$375,000 – blowing pre-sale estimates out of the water
News The final image ever taken of Oscar Wilde far exceeded its presale estimate by 7,400%
The Messiah isn’t Jesus, it’s this heron walking on water – which won a trophy at the Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards
News The heron's physics-defying tricks give Jesus a run for his money… until you see what's really going on beneath the water!
"Why did I need a photograph? I knew I'd been there" – Edmund Hillary’s purported words after history-making Everest summit seem crazy by today's 'snap everything' standards
Opinion After becoming the first person to summit the tallest peak on Earth 73 years ago today, Sir Edmund Hillary's anti-selfie sentiment might confuse today's snappers
A fashion designer traveled to the "end of the Earth" – and captured this gripping, award-winning image with an 11-year-old DSLR
News The composition and documentary storytelling of this immersive scene depicting two indigenous fishermen in the Russian Arctic carving through a frozen lake is visceral
This award-nominated aerial photo is a great lesson in how to combine shapes and complementary colors creatively
News This drone image was a runner-up in the most recent Travel Photographer of the Year Awards, and we can all learn from its mesmerizing blend of shapes and complementary colors
These photos are more than ten years old, but scientists are still baffled by a bizarre new blue deep-sea octopus species
News Researchers discovered the octopus 1.8km below the shores of the Galápagos Islands in 2015, but are still figuring out exactly what this intriguing species is
Photo of a muddy duel to the death between a crab and a fish captured on a DSLR was runner-up in top travel photography award
News The scene depicting a frantic fight in the sticky mud between predator and prey recently came second place in a wildlife category at the prestigious Travel Photographer of the Year Awards
Microscopy contest-winning photo reveals “intriguing parallels” between biology and the cosmos
News The winning photo of this year’s Evident Image of the Year Award, a microscopic photography contest, has revealed mesmerizing similarities between the microscopic world and the cosmos
Underwater camera footage reveals hiding spot of critically endangered monk seals that disappeared from beaches
News Researchers used underwater cameras to film critically endangered Mediterranean monk seals, with the footage revealing the pinnipeds hiding out in flooded “bubble caves” away from humans
