If the sound of a camera shuttering clicking is music to your ears, you’ll love this tune: MIOPS, the company behind various photography products, teamed with Berlin-based sound artist and designer Kuntay Seferoglu (and regional Canon, Fujifilm, Nikon and Sony brands) to create a music composition that uses the shutter sounds of different cameras set off by MIOPS camera triggers. DP Review has more. Read the full Story >>
“I can’t say I’ve missed the 8 a.m. rush-hour tube,” says Sam Wright, whose new photographic series, notes AnOther, “transforms the mundane, everyday experience of taking public transport into a heightened, cinematic journey.” Wright made his name as a commercial photographer, shooting advertising for McDonald’s, KFC, and the BBC alongside editorials for The New York Times and other publications. His new series, titled “Commuters,” reads as film stills rather than photographs, adds the website. Read the full Story >>
At the start of his influential career, photographer Gordon Parks documented everyday life in Washington, D.C., including events and students at Howard University. Eighty years later, the historically Black university has acquired one of the most comprehensive collections of Parks’s photographs, reports Art News. The trove of 252 images represents both his artistic achievement and his significance as a documentarian of African American life in the second half of the 20th century. Read the full Story >>
Iranian photographer Newsha Tavakolian is defending herself against accusations of unethical practice after publishing a series of identifiable images of African teenage rape survivors made while on assignment for the international humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders. Tavakolian, 41, a Magnum Photos member, created the images over a four-week period in March 2021 in the war-torn Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, notes The Art Newspaper. Read the full Story >>
