The New York Times Friday December 23, 2022
Vincent Po has a different way of shooting weddings. In early 2020, he left his engineering job in Providence, R.I., and began photographing weddings for free, living with the soon-to-be-married couples for at least two weeks around the wedding date in exchange. His conversations with the couples he photographs have become the basis for long-form profiles that Po publishes on his website, Portrait of a Young Couple, notes The New York Times. The site, in turn, has helped him gain exposure for his paid freelance work while on the road.
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TBW Books Friday December 23, 2022
Photographer Phil Jung’s first monograph, Windscreen (TBW Books), is a master class in making intimate photos of people — without the people, declares The Washington Post. Jung allows viewers to “peer through the windows of American cars that have seen better days,” says the publisher. “Captured on city streets, existing in a space somewhere between public and private, these car interiors are often found decrepit and empty; however each one comes alive through its inanimate details.”
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DP Review Friday December 23, 2022
Meike has announced a new 25mm f/0.95 lens for APS-C mirrorless cameras. It’s a manual focus lens, which means it’s coming in Canon RF mount as well as Canon EF-M, Fuji X, Nikon Z, Sony E and Micro Four Thirds, notes DIY Photography. Being an APS-C lens, it offers a field of view similar to 37.5mm on full-frame. When used on MFT cameras, it’s equivalent to 50mm. The new lens, is available to buy now for $369 for Sony E mount cameras.
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Designboom Friday December 23, 2022
Artist Hajar Ali’s AI-generated series “Taliban Tinder” seems to have “jumped right out of a page of Orientalism art history,” notes Designboom. Ali captures unexpected “romantic” portraits of Taliban fighters using Midjourney. The resulting compositions are inspired by the ethereal haze of Gustav Klimt’s iconic painting “The Kiss,” depicting weapon-clad fighters tenderly embracing their wives, rendered through a soft, sultry lens. "I call the genre of my work Reverse Orientalism, where I co-opt and sometimes subvert Occidental imagery,” says Ali.
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