The New York Times Thursday April 21, 2022
Joseph F. Kahn, a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent who as managing editor The New York Times helped steer it into the digital era, has been named the newspaper’s next executive editor, the top newsroom job. In his efforts to re-engineer its newspaper for the speed and agility required of modern media, he dismantled the print-focused copy desk, expanded the use of real-time news updates and emphasized visual journalism as much as the written word, notes The Times. Read the full Story >>
CNET Thursday April 21, 2022
You can now get a close-up view of the winners of Apple’s Shot on iPhone Macro Challenge — a contest highlighting the iPhone 13 family’s macro mode. Apple asked iPhone 13 Pro or iPhone 13 Pro Max users to “capture the little things, in a big way.” Among the winners is Abhik Mondal of New Jersey, who shot the center of a sunflower, and Guido Cassanelli, a photographer and surfer based in Argentina, who collected sea glass shards on a beach and brought them home to photograph with his iPhone 13 Pro Max. See also: The Washington Post. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Thursday April 21, 2022
Profoto announced that it had acquired the robotic, automated photography studio company StyleShoots for $18 million. But after hearing feedback, the company’s CEO promised that the goal isn’t to put photographers out of business. (So presumably you can stop worrying about that kind of eventuality.) Profoto CEO Anders Hedebark told PetaPixel that the type of photography that StyleShoots automated studios produces is not the kind of work that creative photographers would do. He also argued that automation of certain types of photography actually makes it possible for working professional photographers to bring in new business. Read the full Story >>
Blaffer Art Museum Thursday April 21, 2022
Houston-born photographer Pam Francis has photographed all kinds of famous Texans for various magazines—from Beyonce and George W. Bush to Lyle Lovett, Dan Rather, Selena, Ann Richards and Mark Cuban. “Francis is lauded for her mastery of the craft of photography; her use of light and color earned her comparisons to Annie Leibovitz,” notes Texas Monthly. Now for the first time Francis’s work from her most prolific era will be exhibited in her hometown, at the Blaffer Art Museum, through April 26. Read the full Story >>
