Photographers and journalists have come to depend on Twitter as a forum to showcase work and stay in touch with a community of peers. But the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, accompanied by a dismantling of Twitter's oversight of toxic content, has raised a pressing business and ethical issue, noted the Columbia Journalism Review recently: Should journalists continue to use a platform whose … Read the full Story >>
Scientists are taking a controversial technology associated with surveillance and adapting it for conservation, notes the CBC. "It's sort of transforming this technology from the Big Brother concerns that we have in human facial recognition technology, to using it for good," says biologist Krista Ingram, team leader of SeaNet, a program that uses facial recognition tech to track seals. She and her colleagues have spent hours in Maine's Casco Bay taking pictures of harbor seals for a growing database. Read the full Story >>
Flower have been among the staple subjects of photography since the medium was invented. But do they have relevance amid our modern political and social issues? The new book Flora Photographica: The Flower in Contemporary Photography, by William A. Ewing and Danaé Panchaud, answers that quest in the affirmative, notes Hyperallergic. The book, a followup to its 1991 predecessor, which covered the period from 1835 to 1990, features 200 photographs of flowers taken over the past 30 years by more than 120 artists from 30 countries. Read the full Story >>
Flickr and its parent company SmugMug have announced a new nonprofit organization called the Flickr Foundation, whose aim is to keep “billions of historic and culturally significant photographs safe, sound, and accessible for future generations.” The groundwork for the organization was laid back in 2008, when George Oates, a designer at Flickr, wanted to develop a program specifically designed to allow cultural institutions from around the world to share their image collections, notes DP Review. In conjunction with the Library of Congress, Flickr began to archive massive libraries of historical images, adds PetaPixel. Read the full Story >>
