If you’re someone with a passion for photography and a camera, how can you make $100,000 in a year? It means earning $416.70 a day, notes Evan Ranft in a new video. Ranft has focused on creating multiple streams of income from books, art, and YouTube sponsorship, but, as he notes, it’s not the simplest way to proceed. He gets into the nitty gritty of earning in his latest video. Read the full Story >>
In the north of the UK, notes AnOther, lies the Highland—a “fiercely beautiful” landscape of imposing green mountains, stretches of dense pine forest, and dramatic coastline cliffs. “We were both drawn to something about the expanse of Scotland,” photographer Sophie Wedgwood and stylist Cristina Firpo tell the website, speaking of their collaborative effort to document both the area and the seaside town of St Andrews on Scotland’s east coast. Wedgwood is a previous winner of the Magnum Photos Emerging Artist Award. Read the full Story >>
In 2015, the Norwegian camera store Stavanger Foto hired photographer Stig Håvard Dirdal to shoot a “human Christmas tree” photo featuring the store’s employees. The photo, which was turned into the store’s official Christmas card, was a hit among customers and was widely shared on the Web. The photographer was surprised recently when he came across a poster for a Russian movie titled Yolki 8 (or “Christmas Trees 8”) that looked a little too familiar, notes PetaPixel. “I have seen lots of [human] Christmas trees and re-makes of my human Christmas card from 2015, but none as good as the one for Yolki 8,” Dirdal says. “Is it okay to take or steal ideas or concepts?” Read the full Story >>
Migrants from across the region have again filled camps in northern Mexico, where criminals and traffickers prey upon them, notes The New Yorker, which features coverage of the situation by photographer Alejandro Cegarra. After a series of escalating threats made by former President Trump, which included closing the border, Mexico’s newly sworn-in President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, acceded to what became known as the “Remain in Mexico” policy, which took effect in 2019. Read the full Story >>
