npr Tuesday April 19, 2022
The photographer Chester Higgins was nine years old when, he tells NPR, "The Spirit" visited him in his bedroom in rural New Brockton, Alabama. ”There's this Black man who's standing in a very calm, still position," Higgins says. "His eyes are closed and gradually his eyes open, he raises up his hands. As he's walking towards me and extending his hand and says, 'I come for you.’" Higgins answered the call and became a New York Times photographer. “I wanted to have my images on the world stage,” he says. See also: This story. Read the full Story >>
The Hollywood Reporter Tuesday April 19, 2022
A copyright lawsuit between actress Emily Ratajkowski and a photographer whose photo Ratajkowski used for an Instagram Story has been settled in a case that could have had far-reaching implications on fair use of images, notes The Hollywood Reporter. A number of celebrities had chose to settle similar infringement cases but Ratajkowski instead chose to fight a lawsuit brought by photographer Robert O’Neil in 2019. She claimed that O’Neil lacked a valid copyright and that her use of the photo constituted fair use of the image. BuzzFeed has more. Read the full Story >>
The Washington Post Tuesday April 19, 2022
Originally published in 2012, photographer Rian Dundon’s book Changsha is now being distributed by Jet Age Books, notes The Washington Post, which calls Dundon’s work “magical.” The world he makes visible is one that you weren’t likely to see back in 2005 when he, as a 24-year-old, struck out for China. “Now, nearly 20 years later, you’re still not likely to see depictions of the world Dundon came to know. That, in itself, makes Changsha a singular book,” writes The Post’s Kenneth Dickerman. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Tuesday April 19, 2022
Nikon seems to have put the bad days of 2020 behind it and is accelerating into a new business-positive future in which its Imaging Division plays a significant but not central role in its financial stability, notes PetaPixel. Crucially, revenue from Imaging is on the up and looks to be returning to near-parity with 2019, along with a subtle shift in Nikon’s underlying core strengths—a pivot in how it viewed the camera market that led to a laser-like focus on the mirrorless camera. Read the full Story >>
