Associated Press Friday August 5, 2022
The Seattle chapter of the Audubon Society says it is dropping “Audubon” from its name because the man the organization is named after was a slave owner and opposed abolition, reports AP. Seattle Audubon is one the largest chapters of the National Audubon Society. J. Drew Lanham, a former board member of the National Audubon Society and a wildlife ecology professor at Clemson University, called the move courageous. Read the full Story >>
The Guardian Friday August 5, 2022
“Do not call me a master, for heaven’s sake,” Ferdinando Scianna tells The Guardian. The acclaimed photography, 79, tells the newspaper that photography was a personal obsession that lasted 60 years. “And it is over today,” he declares. He has not taken pictures for years and says that when young photographers approach him for advice, he wants to ask them for theirs. While Scianna has taken more than a million photographs, he tells the Guardian that the good shots number about 50. Read the full Story >>
FastCompany Friday August 5, 2022
BeReal, a photo-sharing app dubbed the “anti-Instagram,” has soared in popularity in recent weeks to take the number one spot in the U.S. on Apple’s App Store charts — beating TikTok, notes PetaPixel. The French photo app, launched in early 2020 as a kind of stripped-down antidote to Instagram-style excess and gloss, prompts users to post a photo only once a day, adds FastCompany: The interface is designed specifically to discourage the kind of influencer building that has been a core feature of social media for more than a decade. Read the full Story >>
FotoEvidence Friday August 5, 2022
The 2023 FotoEvidence Book Award will focus on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and war crimes committed on Ukrainian soil. The book will include local and international photographers and “will serve as a tool for activism, an historical record for future generations as evidence of the violence of war and the crimes committed in Ukraine,” notes the organization. Multiple photographers will be selected for the book by an editorial board and each one of them will be designated as a 2023 FotoEvidence Book Award winner. Read the full Story >>
