The New York Times Monday February 7, 2022
Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, suffered its biggest one-day wipeout ever recently as its stock plummeted 26 percent and its market value plunged by more than $250 billion a following a dismal earnings report, notes The New York Times. CEO Mark Zuckerberg explained that the company was navigating a tricky transition from social networking toward the so-called virtual world of the metaverse. (PetaPixel notes that Meta’s virtual reality division lost $10.2 billion in 2021.) The Times adds that the salad days of Facebook’s wild growth are long over. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday February 7, 2022
Timothy Fadek has put 2,000 miles on his rental car in Ukraine. "So far," he notes. The Redux agency photojournalist, who has covered stories in 50 countries across six continents, has been in
Ukraine on assignment for CNN as a buildup of Russian forces on the country's border and the threat of an imminent invasion roil international politics. While Ukrainians might not agree with … Read the full Story >>
ARTnews Friday February 4, 2022
Kohei Yoshiyuki, whose photographs of Tokyo’s hedonistic after-hours culture emblematized a certain sensibility in postwar Japan, has died at 76, reports Art New. New York’s Yossi Milo Gallery announced Yoshiyuki’s death, stating, “Yoshiyuki’s photographs remind us that the conflict between private and public is timeless, something we all must grapple with in every aspect of our lives.” For his most famous series, “The Park,” Yoshiyuki chronicled clandestine hookups in the city’s public spaces. Read the full Story >>
HuffPost Friday February 4, 2022
Wipeouts and accidents are natural occurrences at the Winter Olympics, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t gut-wrenching to watch, even when they happen to inanimate objects — and for photographers, especially when they happen to cameras. NBC tweeted out a video from its @NBCOlympics Twitter account that shows what appears to be either a $6,500 Sony Alpha 1 or a $4,500 Sony Alpha 9 II tumbling down a hill, apparently lost by a news photographer. Read more at PetaPixel. Read the full Story >>
