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SPAC 2024 overview Events News 

SPAC 2024 overview

The SPAC 2024 school and sports photography conference was held Jan. 24-27, at the South Point Hotel in Las Vegas, Nev., featuring sessions, a sold-out trade show, and social events. The sessions topics included how-to sessions, sales, marketing, cyber-security, and more. The Dead Pixels Society attended the conference; the video features interviews with attendees and exhibitors, including Tyndell Photographic, WoodUImagine,... Read More
Fujifilm, World Press Photo Foundation announce strategic partnership  Events News 

Fujifilm, World Press Photo Foundation announce strategic partnership 

FUJIFILM Corp. announced a strategic partnership with the World Press Foundation, which includes Fujifilm’s sponsorship of the World Press Photo Foundation’s World Press Photo Contests as well as expert-led workshops during the organization’s global exhibitions. The World Press Photo Foundation is an independent nonprofit organization based in the Netherlands that provides a global platform for photojournalists and documentary photographers to... Read More
IPI hosting IPI CONNECT event in Louisville, Ky Events News 

IPI hosting IPI CONNECT event in Louisville, Ky

Independent Photo Imagers (IPI) announced IPI Connect, a one-day free educational event focused on hands-on learning of production. Specifically, the March 13 educational event will feature the latest equipment in a true production setting, with hands-on learning directly from vendor partner expert teams and experienced users. The featured equipment includes the Fujifilm Revoria digital press printer and the LogoJET UVx90R... Read More
Tamron Americas announces Tamron User Photo/Video Contest 2023 winners Events 

Tamron Americas announces Tamron User Photo/Video Contest 2023 winners

Tamron Americas unveiled the winners of the Tamron User Photo/Video Contest 2023. The competition, open to photographers and videographers/filmmakers in the USA, Canada, and Mexico, attracted entries in seven distinct categories: Travel/Landscape, Wildlife, Close-up/Fine Art, Portrait, Sports/Action, Photojournalism, and Video. The judging process was carried out by a panel of Tamron’s Creative Collaborative professional photographers and videographers. The grand prize... Read More
Junebug Weddings announces winners of 2023 Best of the Best Wedding Photography Contest Events News 

Junebug Weddings announces winners of 2023 Best of the Best Wedding Photography Contest

Nearly 10,000 images from photographers around the world were submitted to Junebug Weddings’ 2023 Best of the Best Wedding Photography Contest. Junebug, a wedding resource site, debuted the top 50 to reveal a collection of the best wedding photos taken within the last year. Since 2008, Junebug Weddings has been hosting annual wedding photography contests to curate image collections that best represent... Read More
IPC inducts Neal Manowitz of Sony into Hall of Fame, recognizes photographers Events News 

IPC inducts Neal Manowitz of Sony into Hall of Fame, recognizes photographers

The International Photographic Council (IPC), bestowed its Hall of Fame award upon Neal Manowitz, President and COO of Sony Electronics North America on Oct. 18, 2023 at the Delegates Dining Room at the United Nations in New York City. The award honors legendary corporate leaders who make vital contributions to the photo imaging industry. As the IPC Keynote Speaker, and... Read More
PRINTING United Expo 2023 draws 28,000 registrants Events News 

PRINTING United Expo 2023 draws 28,000 registrants

PRINTING United Alliance announced PRINTING United Expo, held at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta on October 18-20, attracted 28,000 registrants. PRINTING United Expo will take place in Las Vegas next year Sept. 10-12, 2024.  “PRINTING United Expo has set a new benchmark for the printing industry,” says Mark J. Subers, president, PRINTING United Expo. “With over 28,000 registrants... Read More
dna x Imaging is a new Imaging and Printing Convention at drupa 2024 Events News 

dna x Imaging is a new Imaging and Printing Convention at drupa 2024

drupa has announced, through a partnership with New C, drupa is a new five-day convention “dna (drupa next age) x Imaging” which focuses on the great importance of imaging technologies in print and communication, from June 1-5, 2024. “We see many shared technologies and questions, as well as markets that overlap and mutually drive each other, within the imaging and... Read More
Visual 1st continues discussions on generative AI and new markets Events Feature News 

Visual 1st continues discussions on generative AI and new markets

The 11th annual Visual 1st conference was held Oct. 24-25, at the Governor’s Residence at Ft. Mason in San Francisco, Calif. The high-tech executive-level conference featured numerous sessions expanding on last year’s Generative AI themes, with conference organizers Hans Hartman and Alexis Gerard bringing together a wide variety of companies from across the imaging ecosystem, from startups to established players... Read More
GoPro’s opens ultimate Point of View (POV) awards challenge Events News 

GoPro’s opens ultimate Point of View (POV) awards challenge

GoPro announced submissions are open for the GoPro Awards Ultimate POV Challenge. The new awards challenge gives customers the chance to earn a share of a $50,000 cash award and an opportunity to be featured on GoPro’s social channels by submitting a most unique, most immersive first-person photos and videos. GoPro will reward select content with cash payouts through the... Read More
Visual 1st to address how to refer to AI generated images Events 

Visual 1st to address how to refer to AI generated images

Artificial intelligence’s ability to produce images that don’t originate in the real world but are indistinguishable from photographs is upending traditional attitudes and perceptions. The broad availability of this technology is enabling explosive growth of these photorealistic – but not real – images: Adobe recently announced its generative artificial intelligence product Firefly has been used to create more than a billion... Read More
Vivid-Pix, NGS embarks on tour for Family History Month Events 

Vivid-Pix, NGS embarks on tour for Family History Month

In celebration of Family History Month in October, the National Genealogical Society (NGS) and imaging company Vivid-Pix is partnering with prominent societies, libraries, archives, museums, and senior adult organizations throughout the United States to host in-person and online events to celebrate their families and share memories and stories about their own lives and ancestors through the new NGS/Vivid-Pix Family Matters... Read More
Layflat.com features LF 2000 All-in Max at PRINTING United Events New Products 

Layflat.com features LF 2000 All-in Max at PRINTING United

Layflat.com AG, the world leader in photobook production equipment, announced the LF 2000 All-In Max, an all-in-one station including creasing, folding, and inline automatic book pressing, will be the company’s featured product at the PRINTING United Expo. LF 2000 All-in Max is a high-speed fully automatic in-line book block system that produces layflat book blocks from single sheets. In addition... Read More
Sharp to showcase production print at Printing United Events New Products 

Sharp to showcase production print at Printing United

Sharp Imaging and Information Co. of America will preview its new BP-1200S Color Press Series at the Printing United Expo, in Atlanta, Georgia from Oct. 18 – 20, 2023.  The presses boast speeds of up to 120 pages-per-minute (ppm), are equipped with a powerful Fiery digital front end (DFE), and print up to six colors in one pass, including CMYK, gold, silver, bright pink,... Read More