PetaPixel Thursday August 18, 2022
Sony has announced the availability of its in-camera forgery-proof photo technology that, notes PetaPixel, cryptographically signs photos at the point of capture, which allows photographers to detect if the image is manipulated or tampered with down the line. The tech, which is aimed at corporate business uses, uses digital signatures that are processed by the camera at the point of capture and allow photographers to detect if any modifications have been made to an image and, as the company says, thus protect them from fraudulent usage. Read the full Story >>
Car and Driver Thursday August 18, 2022
Anthony Schmidt has loved cars since he was born. "It's common for people with autism to have a special interest, and for me, that was always cars," he tells Car and Driver. Schmidt began building model cars early in his life and by age six was photographing them. “It was then that he made a startling realization. If he lined up his scale models within a larger background scene and positioned the lens just so, he could produce the illusion the car was life-size,” notes C&D, which features his astonishing images. Read the full Story >>
CNN Thursday August 18, 2022
Director Heather O’Neill focuses on trailblazing women photojournalists in her documentary No Ordinary Life, which will be premiered on CNN on Monday, Sept. 5 at 10 pm ET. “I wanted to make a film that allowed the audience to be immersed in the experience of being behind the camera through the photographer’s point of view. The sounds, the signs, the split-second decisions, and the sense of what unfolds for the camerawomen,” says O’Neill. The film focuses on photographers Jane Evans, Maria Fleet, Margaret Moth, Mary Rogers, and Cynde Strand—all of whom, notesCNN, “broke news, bucked stereotypes, and built an enduring sisterhood.” Read the full Story >>
British Journal of Photography Thursday August 18, 2022
In 2011, the Supreme Court ruled that prison overcrowding in California violated prisoners’ constitutional rights against cruel and unusual punishment. The state was ordered to reduce its prison population by a target of 137.5 percent, resulting in the slow release of people behind bars, many of whom were adults serving life sentences for crimes committed when they were young. How those people have coped is the subject of a project by photographer Brandon Tauszik and journalist Pendarvis Harshaw, notes the British Journal of Photography. Read the full Story >>
