Copyright in most works of art, which includes writing, photography and digital images occur as the work is created. To put it as simply as possible, the second you click the shutter button, the resulting image belongs to you. No formal registration is needed in more that 140 countries in the world, to receive basic legal protection. But regardless, if you do feel that you dont understand certain legal points, you would be well advised to speak to your legal advisors. Although the law protects your copyright from the moment the shutter is released and there is no other formalities to be observed,...

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold. -W. Eugene SmithThe invention of the camera liberated painting from its reportage role. Gone was the need to produce a likeness, detail the events of the story, painting was free to express emotions. True what had gone before contained an emotional content but now painting could experiment and through imaginative interpretation allow the emotional content to predominate. Freed from this constraint the painter was able to create...