Hive Social Wednesday December 28, 2022
Hive Social is back online, weeks after its creators abruptly shut the service down in order to address security issues. The app, which is best described as a combination of Twitter and Instagram, has been around for several years but recently saw a huge surge in signups over the last month and a half amid escalating issues at both Instagram and Twitter, notes PetaPixel. Instagram has been heavily criticized for veering too far away from its roots as a photo-sharing app, while many users are trying to leave Twitter after Elon Musk’s takeover of the app in October.
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The Guardian Wednesday December 28, 2022
The Guardian has offered its opinion on the best photography books of 2022. Among the titles on the list: Some Say Ice by Alessandra Sanguinetti, “a book of stark and mysterious monochrome images” made in Black River Falls, a small town previously immortalized in Michael Lesy’s 1973 book, Wisconsin Death Trip, Yelena Yemchuk’s Odesa, visual ode to the vibrant youth culture of the Ukrainian city of Odesa, and Judith Joy Ross: Photographs 1978-2015, featuring work by the acclaimed portraitist.
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TechCrunch Wednesday December 28, 2022
ImagenAI, a startup that whose desktop app uses artificial intelligence to help professional photographers edit photos and automate post-production work, has announced that it raised $30 million in an all-equity growth investment. The new capital brings Imagen’s total raised to $34 million. Imagen’s success comes as investors grow increasingly bullish on AI tools for generating and editing artwork, notes TechCrunch. Available as a cloud-based plugin for Adobe Lightroom Classic, Imagen learns a photographer’s style based on around 3,000 samples of their previous work and creates their own personal AI profile, adds PetaPixel.
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Nature inFocus Wednesday December 28, 2022
The eighth annual Nature inFocus Photography Awards drew 21,000 entries from more than 2,300 photographers around the world. The winner of the new Photographer Of The Year-Portfolio category is Fernando Constantino Martinez Belmar for his essay “Balam—The Endangered King of the Mayan Jungle,” which focuses on the region’s threatened jaguar species. Anirban Dutta wins the Creative Nature Photography category for an image called “Wings Of Life and Death,” which features winged termites.
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