PhotowalksTV with Jefferson Graham Thursday December 9, 2021
There is more to shooting with an iPhone than simply opening the camera app and blasting away. There are settings and hidden features within the app that you should know about, and a new video from YouTuber Jefferson Graham explains 13 of them. The iPhone 13 features one called Styles, which “will give your image a different look, similar to a filter, with Rich Contrast, Vibrant, Warm and Cool,” he notes at PetaPixel. Read the full Story >>
Reuters Thursday December 9, 2021
ELLE is banning fur from the pages of all its international editions in a move to support animal welfare and reflect changing tastes, the fashion magazine has announced. Elle senior vice president and international director Valeria Bessolo LLopiz told Reuters: "It's a really great opportunity to increase awareness for animal welfare, bolster the demand for sustainable and innovative alternatives and foster a more humane fashion industry.” Each of the magazine's 45 global editions has signed a charter to ban editorial content promoting animal fur, adds CNN. Read the full Story >>
The Washington Post Thursday December 9, 2021
Japan is losing its younger population through an exodus and if things do not change by 2040, “nearly half of Japan’s municipalities could vanish altogether,” notes American photographer James Whitlow Delano, who has lived in Tokyo for many years. Delano has been documenting the trend, and his work was recently featured in The Washington Post. “On the fringes of urban sprawl are depopulating geriatric villages … set right beside worker-bee lowlands where people live cheek to jowl in tiny apartments,” he says. Read the full Story >>
Lucie Foundation Thursday December 9, 2021
The Lucie Foundation scholarship program supports “emerging talent with vision and dynamic ideas that challenge and progress the art form of still photography into work that compels.” The 2021 scholarship winners have been announced: The $3,000 Fine Art Scholarship goes to Louise Amelie and Alja Fuis for their project “The Lost Children Of Kirgistan.” The $1,500 Emerging Artist scholarship goes to Tyler DeHaarte for “The Unspectacular Negro: Searching for The Oasis Promised.” Read the full Story >>
