Sony Monday June 6, 2022
Sony has announced an acceleration of its carbon neutrality goal, bringing its goal of carbon neutrality throughout its entire value chain forward by ten years from 2050 to 2040, notes DIY Photography. In 2010, the company announced a long-term global environmental plan aiming “to realize a sustainable society by achieving a zero environmental footprint throughout the life cycle of Sony’s products and business activities by the year 2050.” Read the full Story >>
AP Monday June 6, 2022
A Maryland man is accused of throwing a flagpole at police and assaulting an Associated Press photographer during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Rodney Milstreed allegedly threw the flagpole “javelin-like” toward a group of Capitol police officers, apparently hitting one officer, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Colorado. The documents do not name the photographer but the description and photos show it is AP photographer John Minchillo. Millstreed is the third person to be charged with assaulting him that day, notes AP. Read the full Story >>
VII Monday June 6, 2022
Applications for the Pierre & Alexandra Boulat Award sponsored by LaScam (société civile des auteurs multimedia) are being accepted through June 22, notes the VII Photo agency. The 8,000 euro (about $8,600) award is designed to help a photographer carry out an original reporting project that traditional media outlets have yet to support. The award was created in memory of photographers Pierre Boulat and Alexandra Boulat, a founding member of the VII agency, after Alexandra’s death in 2007. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday June 6, 2022
Despite what you've been hearing recently, birds are real. The trending Birds Aren't Real movement, as The New York Times has explained, is an elaborate inside joke--"a Gen Z-fueled conspiracy theory"
positing that birds don't exist and are really drone replicas installed by the U.S. government to spy on Americans. In any case, today we focus on real birds, from kestrels pink flamingos, that … Read the full Story >>
