Poynter. Thursday April 28, 2022
When University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas won the 500-yard freestyle event at the 2022 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming Championship, she made history. Following her win, a photo quickly went viral online, which many claimed to show the second, third and fourth place swimmers protesting against Thomas’ inclusion in the competition. Poynter did the fact checking. “The best way to add context to a photo is by doing a reverse image search. Screenshotting and uploading the photo to Google Images brought up several results,” notes the site. Bottom line: The viral podium photo simply doesn’t show female swimmers protesting Lia Thomas’ win. Read the full Story >>
AnOther Thursday April 28, 2022
In the 1990s, photographer Robin Graubard left New York – where she’d come of age against the backdrop of 1960s counterculture and 1970s punk – and bought an airline ticket to Prague. She ended up staying for several years, along the way documenting the Bosnian War (while staying in a hotel in besieged Sarajevo) and witnessing the turbulence in Eastern Europe following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Her images, notes AnOther, are collected in a newly-published photo diary from the period, titled Road to Nowhere. Read the full Story >>
University of Texas Thursday April 28, 2022
Before he died in March at age 85, photojournalist Dirck Halstead expressed a wish that an internship in his name be created at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas, where his archive resides. The program aims to expand the understanding of photography as historical evidence, introduce interns to the practice of photographic-archives management and aid the Briscoe Center with preservation and access to the collections of photojournalists. A fundraising effort to support the internship is underway. Read the full Story >>
Sryp Lab Wednesday April 27, 2022
“We’re Film Makers, we’re Photographers, we have a lot of … stuff. So in January 2022 it was time to tackle our tiny dark gear room and turn our studio basement into something epic – our ultimate photo video gear room.” So notes the team at Syrp Lab, which has published a new video showing how this spacial transformation occurred. If you have a cluttered room somewhere and would like to turn it into a dream studio, this video is for you. Read the full Story >>
