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Our own Travis Keyes, long-time co-host of Around the Lens, recently released his first-ever feature film, “Bulls.” No, this isn’t a documentary about the Chicago Bulls and their triumphant rise with Michael Jordan at the helm (that docu-series is actually called “The Last Dance”), although I would probably watch that documentary; it’s actually the story […]
This years Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales have been a bit of slim pickings. Most of the “deals” I’ve seen are regular sales that happen throughout the year, 15-20% off or even lower. The big camera companies aren’t really doing anything big as far as I can find, $100 or $200 off here and […]
ATL panelist Rick Friedman was the subject of a short documentary by the Digital Photo Academy & Celebrating Senior Shutterbugs. It’s an incredible interview and it was seriously inspiring! This man has been behind the camera for over five decades, capturing every U.S. President from Carter to today. What a career it’s just mind-blowing. He […]
On this week’s episode we invite Joe Giordano and Daniel Dreyfus to the program to talk about resurgence of film, shooting fires and protests, and documentary films we either have seen or want to see in 2025. Get the show on: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/around-the-lens/id1057459541 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3gDf7UyZPXE2rAQsVX4k2W Pocket Casts: https://pocketcasts.com/podcast/around-the-lens/b3cc1260-815a-0133-2d64-6dc413d6d41d iHeart: https://iheart.com/podcast/30984965/ Castbox: https://castbox.fm/channel/Around-the-Lens-id5452034?country=us Goodpods: https://goodpods.com/podcasts/around-the-lens-168736 Podcast Index: https://podcastindex.org/podcast/216757 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a97400a2-1089-4aa8-9747-18a411c46f4a/around-the-lens
Nov. 10, 2025, marks 10 years to the DAY that Around the Lens began. To celebrate the show, the platform, and the community, we’re bringing back Around the Lens in a big way. So what are we doing to help celebrate the show, and what are we doing to revive it? First and foremost, we’re […]
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The Professional Photographer of America hosted their annual Imaging USA convention at the Gaylord National Harbor convention center in National Harbor, Md., Jan. 13-18, 2022. I visited on Jan. 16, the official opening day of the main event and the expo hall. While at the event I had the opportunity to attend the keynote address […]
Last year I compiled the best of 2019 and best of the decade lists from all the major publications that created them. This year I’m doing the same thing. As new lists are published, I’ll add them here, so bookmark this page and come back periodically to see which lists are added in the future. […]
The City of New York recently published a proposal for rules changes to their press credentials process. In case you weren’t aware, the NYPD controls the issuance of press passes to members of the NYC media. The NYPD can also revoke a press pass for any reason they want and don’t have to give it […]
Well it’s that time of the year. Time look back on the best photography produced by the finest visual journalists in the industry. Because there will be new lists coming throughout the month of December and January, check back here often to see when new lists are added. (New lists will be at the top […]