Maison Européenne de la Photographie Friday April 15, 2022
The latest exhibition at Paris’s Maison Européenne de la Photographie proposes an alternative history of photography — one, notes the British Journal of Photography, that is “told through the lens of love.” Featuring 14 bodies of work, the exhibition, titled “Love Songs,” is put together in the style of a mixtape. “The idea was to make the show feel like a compilation of songs… a playlist of photographic series that are all about love – either inside people’s relationships or inside an intimate circle,” explains curator Simon Baker. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Friday April 15, 2022
A new artificial intelligence-based software that works as a Google Chrome extension is capable of detecting artificially-generated profile pictures with a claimed 99.28% accuracy, reports PetaPixel. The extension comes from V7 Labs, a software company that designs products made to automate visual tasks. “There’s a lot of misleading content on social media these days and one of its propagators are fake profiles,” says a company spokesman. “We made a Chrome extension that is able to detect whether a profile picture is a genuinely real person or an AI-generated portrait.” Read the full Story >>
THE ART NEWSPAPER Friday April 15, 2022
Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Stanislav Ostrous was interested mainly in conceptual photography. Ostrous, who lives in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, some 16 miles from the Russian border, teaches photography at the Kharkiv State Academy of Culture. When his city became an early target of the Russian assault, he began risking his life to document its architecture, roaming empty streets and entering the ruins of bombed-out buildings, notes The Art Newspaper. He continued teaching photography online, as well. Read the full Story >>
Diversity Photo Friday April 15, 2022
The Diversity Photo Inclusion Grant provides photographers from underrepresented communities funding to continue personal projects “that move them further along their careers objectives,” notes the organization. Four $5,000 grants will be administered for portfolios or projects in one of four categories: News, Sports, Arts and Entertainment, and Video. The grant program, supported by Getty Images, is open to photographers around the globe; applications must be received in English, however. Deadline: May 15. Read the full Story >>
