engadget Thursday January 27, 2022
Your Instagram profile's grid might soon be more than just a snapshot of your most recent posts. Reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi has discovered that Instagram has been developing an "edit grid" feature that would let you reorder the posts in your profile, notes Engadget. it’s not clear whether this new feature is going up for a test soon, or it will be launched worldwide. But as far as us photographers are concerned, it could be quite useful, adds DIY Photography. Read the full Story >>
AnOther Thursday January 27, 2022
“Against the backdrop of the pandemic, heightened civil unrest and a general air of malaise, many of us have felt a more pressing need to find worlds outside our own, and some have found theirs between the covers of a photo book.” So notes AnOther, which has amassed a list of highly anticipated titles for the coming year. Among them: SCUMB Manifesto by Justine Kurland—the photographer’s tribute to Valerie Solanas’s SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto—and Judith Joy Ross: Photographs 1978–2015. Read the full Story >>
Pantone Thursday January 27, 2022
Pantone is launching what it calls the world’s first validation program for skin tones for technology. Called SkinTone Validated, the program allows computer screens, televisions, mobile devices to be tested to ensure that they authentically reproduce skin tones, notes DIY Photography. Manufacturers of printers will also be able to use the program to test their products. SkinTone Validated is based on the pre-existing Pantone SkinTone Guide. Read the full Story >>
npr Thursday January 27, 2022
Brazilian photographer Raphael Alves has been covering the COVID-19 pandemic in his home state of Amazonas since the first lockdown in March 2020. Alves’s project, called “Insulae,” reflects on the idea that isolation is not just a consequence of the pandemic. There is another isolation, different from what the World Health Organization recommends—an ideological isolation that goes beyond the geographical, one that peoples of the Amazon have historically lived with, notes NPR. Read the full Story >>
