FotoEvidence Thursday June 2, 2022
Is the future of photography in the metaverse getting closer? FotoEvidence, which champions documentary photography focused on social justice issues, now has opened a metaverse gallery with photographer Smita Sharma’s exhibition “We Cry in Silence”—a body of work aimed at combating sex trafficking from Bangladesh and Nepal to India. The gallery comes via Spacial, a service that helps creators and brands build their own spaces in the metaverse. Read the full Story >>
JET AGE BOOKS Thursday June 2, 2022
“Even before the start of the global Covid-19 pandemic, it was clear that 2020 would be tumultuous; possibly the last year of Donald Trump’s presidency. Once the pandemic began, the stakes became higher and higher as the death toll rose.” So notes photographer Alan Chin, whose new book Infinity Goes Up on Trial brings together what The Washington Post calls “images surrounding the powder keg that the U.S. became in the aftermath of a multiplicity of stunning events” that took place in a momentous year. Read the full Story >>
Courthouse News Service Thursday June 2, 2022
A federal judge has ruled in favor of Pinterest in a lawsuit by a photographer claiming the company infringed over 50 of his copyrighted works by displaying them too close to other advertisements. New Jersey Photographer Harold Davis sued the social-media platform in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in November of 2019 for displaying his photographs too closely or in the same feed as other promotional posts on its site, reports Courthouse News Service. U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam Jr. found Pinterest is protected from the claims through the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennial Copyright Act. See also: PetaPixel. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday June 2, 2022
Photo dealer and collector Peter Fetterman's new book "The Power of Photography" is a joyous ode to the medium born, writes Fetterman in the introduction, "out of a time of incredible global sadness
and pain." During the covid-19 lockdown, Fetterman "exibited" one carefully chosen photograph a day at the website of his Santa Monica, CA gallery, accompanied by inspirational text, quotations and
poetry. The … Read the full Story >>
