WIRED Tuesday January 3, 2023
“For the past six weeks, I’ve spent around a dozen hours deleting thousands of photos that had been uploaded to my Google Photos account in the last half-decade,” notes Matt Burgess at Wired. During the tedious process, three things stood out, he writes: “My photos collection unknowingly includes a lot of sensitive personal information (both about me and others); I don't need to keep so many photos; and wrestling my collection into shape frees up a lot of space in my Google account.”
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GALLERIA LORCAN O’NEILL ROMA Tuesday January 3, 2023
“Leading a transatlantic life between Los Angeles and the UK casts its influence on the British artist Sam Taylor-Johnson. However, she tells AnOther, the feeling of being caught between two worlds “comes not from just straddling the globe between two continents, but equally the physical self and the ethereal mind.” The large-scale self-portraits in Taylor-Johnson’s exhibition "Wired" at Rome’s Galleria Lorcan O’Neill embody that idea—in them, the artist hangs suspended from a crane against the barren backdrop of Joshua Tree National Park.
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PetaPixel Tuesday January 3, 2023
How has photo editing software evolved in the past year? Sometimes in good ways, notes PetaPixel, pointing to Adobe’s Creative Cloud licensing program. “The price for the photography plan hasn’t really changed. We get regular, useful updates that include excellent new features. You don’t have to store your images in the cloud. And so on,” writes Thom Hogan. Some other software programs haven’t managed the evolution as well, however.
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npr Tuesday January 3, 2023
Ukraine’s capital has recalibrated what normal means since Russia’s invasion in February of 2022—first as a ghost town, then as a sight of celebration as Ukrainian forces drove back the enemy. As the one-year anniversary of invasion approaches, life goes on in Kyiv, notes NPR, which features a photo essay from Pete Kiehart: Volunteers sew camouflage netting and build power banks, soldiers go to church, and people visit markets wearing headlamps to navigate darkened streets as winter sets in.
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