Astronomy Photographer of the Year Tuesday March 8, 2022
Photographer Marcin Zajac’s “Alien Throne”—a shot of the night sky with a New Mexico rock tower in the foreground, is the winner of the Astronomy Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award. You may recall that Zajac’s image was also a finalist in the American Photography Open 2021 competition and was winner of the Tamron Through Your Lens Prize. Zajac, we noted, is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area when not pursuing his passion for photography. Read the full Story >>
THE ART NEWSPAPER Tuesday March 8, 2022
The Photo London art fair is making a play for the Chinese photography market after selling a 24-percent stake to the World Photography Organization, the London-based company best known for establishing the Sony World Photography Awards, notes The Art Newspaper. The WPO has made deeper incursions into the Chinese photography market than any other British photography group, adds TAN. In 2014 WPO launched Photofairs Shanghai in the Chinese megacity, which is now established as the leading photography-specific annual art fair in Asia. Read the full Story >>
The Philadelphia Inquirer Tuesday March 8, 2022
Photographer Kathy Shorr, whose 2017 book SHOT …101 Survivors of Gun Violence in America featured victims of gun violence photographed in locations where they were injured, has been working on a new series that focuses on the expanding circles of misery that follow shootings. The series, "SHOT: We the Mothers," documents 51 mothers who have lost children to gun violence in the Philadelphia area, all photographed in places that had special meaning to their children. The haunting work was recently featured at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Read the full Story >>
National Law Review Tuesday March 8, 2022
“No harm, no foul.” That, notes the National Law Review, was the message the U.S. Supreme Court delivered Feb. 24 in ruling that a copyright infringement verdict should not have been overturned because of inaccurate information in the copyright registration asserted. The Court’s 6-3 opinion vacates a Ninth Circuit decision that threw out an infringement verdict on the ground that the registrant should have known the law regarding filing multiple works within one registration, a practice referred to as group registrations. PetaPixel calls it a big win for photographers and other creatives. Read the full Story >>
