The Very First Edition of Photo London

The English capital finally gets its own photography fair

How, one might wonder, has a city as large and culturally important as London not had a proper photography fair before? After all, Paris Photo—both in its original city and in Los Angeles—is a huge success, and the interest in photography as an art form seems to be bigger than ever. The city had to get on the bandwagon at some point, and now it …

The Skate Girls of Kabul

Award-winning photographer Jessica Fulford-Dobson’s powerful “Skate Girls of Kabul” series is currently on display at London’s National Portrait Gallery and is set to be published in an upcoming book. Dobson traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan to capture the inspiring story of the organization Skateistan, which empowers young Afghan girls through the usually male-dominated sport of skateboarding. By providing the girls with an open skatepark and the …

Compiling Public Photos into Time-Lapses

Millions of photos are taken each and every day—many of them coming from the same scenic points at popular tourist attractions—and now, a team of developers from Google and the University of Washington have found a way to put those obligatory shots to use: through time-lapse imagery. By scanning image databases like Flickr and Picasa, the researchers were able to sort thousands of images by …