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ASMPCultureWeekend Reading 11.5.2026 Interesting/useful/fun stories to check out over the weekend (Warning: Highly Bookmarkable). A weekly roundup of links curated by Frank Rocco.

11.05

ASMPCultureASMP and NANPA Invite You to NANPA LIVE on November 7 ASMP and NANPA invite you to NANPA LIVE 2026, streaming free worldwide on Saturday, November 7, 3:00–6:00 PM PT.

11.02

ASMPCultureASMP Opposes Meta’s Proposed Commercial Terms, Supports Copyright Alliance ASMP opposes Meta’s proposed changes to its commercial Terms of Service and supports the Copyright Alliance’s call for Meta to withdraw the changes.

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ASMPCultureWeekend Reading 10.29.2026 Interesting/useful/fun stories to check out over the weekend (Warning: Highly Bookmarkable). A weekly roundup of links curated by Frank Rocco.

10.29

ASMPCultureWeekend Reading 10.22.2026 Interesting/useful/fun stories to check out over the weekend (Warning: Highly Bookmarkable). A weekly roundup of links curated by Frank Rocco.

10.22

ASMPCultureASMP Applauds House Introduction of VACRA Reps. Ben Cline and Sydney Kamlager-Dove have introduced H.R. 10843, bringing copyright registration reform for photographers before both chambers of Congress.

10.20

ASMPCultureWeekend Reading 10.15.2026 Interesting/useful/fun stories to check out over the weekend (Warning: Highly Bookmarkable). A weekly roundup of links curated by Frank Rocco.

10.15

ASMPCultureSo What Now? Getty Announces Plans for a Chapter 11 Restructuring Getty Images has announced plans for a prepackaged Chapter 11 restructuring. What contributors need to know about payments, contracts, and next steps.

10.13

ASMPCultureWeekend Reading 10.8.2026 Interesting/useful/fun stories to check out over the weekend (Warning: Highly Bookmarkable). A weekly roundup of links curated by Frank Rocco.

10.08

ASMPCultureSedlik v. Kat Von D: Why ASMP Stands With Sedlik At the September 29 en banc hearing in Sedlik v. Kat Von D, Ninth Circuit judges pressed both sides on copied expression, meaningful judicial review, and fair use.

10.05

The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo