THE VERGE Friday May 6, 2022
Chinese drone giant DJI has been under scrutiny recently for its drone-tracking system after Ukraine’s Vice Prime minister accused it of helping Russia to kill civilians. DJI initially assured users that the system was encrypted. But, reports DIY Photography, evidence has come to light that this is not true and the information is in fact free for all to grab. A hacker allegedly found evidence that the tracking system is not encrypted. DJI is now admitting that AeroScope signals broadcast by every modern DJI drone aren’t actually encrypted, notes The Verge. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday May 6, 2022
Ron Galella, the photographer who relentlessly pursued Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis until a judge barred him from taking her picture, who pestered Marlon Brando until Brando broke his jaw, and who
helped define the modern culture of celebrity, died on April 30 at his home in Montville, N.J., reported The New York Times. He was 91. Galella, known as the Godfather of U.S. paparazzi, was … Read the full Story >>
Fstoppers Thursday May 5, 2022
Why do some photography businesses fail? Training courses talk about how to make a business work, but they overlook commonplace mistakes, notes Fstoppers, which offers some insights drawn “from a photography business that stank and sank.” Lesson One: Treat your staff as your most valuable asset. Lesson Two: Don’t have an affair with one or more of your employees. Also, If you are going to sell a product or service, make it the best quality. Read the full Story >>
FOAM Museum Thursday May 5, 2022
An exhibition of the work of photographer Bill Brandt explores the relationship between his pictures and the art of the European avant-garde, in particular surrealism, showing how a fascination with the strange manifests itself in his artistic and documentary practice, notes The Guardian. The exhibition, “The Beautiful and the Sinister,” is on display at Foam, Amsterdam, through May 18. Included is work from a series Brandt began in the 1960s, in which he reduced his subjects’ faces to a close-up shot of one of the eyes. Read the full Story >>
