PetaPixel Thursday November 17, 2022
The average family may shoot four thousand photos in a year. If you have been taking pictures since the iPhone 3G came out in 2008, it means that now, after 14 years, you have an archive of over 50,000 photos. How in the world do you find the best ones? That’s where personal photo curator Isabelle Dervaux comes in. Dervaux has spotted a niche and filled it, creating a new profession out of the needs of our digital overload, notes PetaPixel.
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The New Yorker Thursday November 17, 2022
Photographer Tommy Kha grew up in the Memphis neighborhood of Whitehaven, the home of Graceland, absorbing the complex vitality of Elvis Presley fan culture. The traditions of reënactment and impersonation that have become part of Elvis’s legacy are evident in Kha works, notes The New Yorker. But Kha, as an Asian American artist engaging with an icon of Americana, has had to deal with an overriding question, no matter how much irony there is in his images: Who gets to play with Elvis’s image?
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Digital Camera World Thursday November 17, 2022
A lot of people took up photography as a hobby during the COVID lockdowns – either for the first time or a rediscovery – thanks to the wealth of accessible tutorials to be found online, along all that time they had to fill. Now with travel reopened they are signing up for photo tours to hone their craft, reports Digital Camera World. “Our tours fill up quickly these days,” says Russ Nordstrand, founder and CEO of Backcountry Journeys, tells DCW. “Several of our clients took up photography as a creative hobby during lockdowns and they come to us to improve their proficiency.”
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Aperture Thursday November 17, 2022
Paris Photo and Aperture have announced the winners of the 2022 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards—the 10th edition of the awards. The PhotoBook of the Year prize goes to Mohamed Bourouissa’s Périphérique, featuring his series of staged photographs set in the Parisian suburbs that have increasingly become home to large immigrant communities. The First PhotoBook award goes to Sabiha Çimen’s HAFIZ, a glimpse into the world of Turkish schools for girls that focus on the study of the Koran.
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