At the 2023 Academy Awards, 15 short films will be competing in three award categories: animated, live-action, and documentary. While ShortsTV will be playing the Oscar-nominated short films in theaters starting on February 17, many of the projects are available to stream online at Netflix and Apple TV+ and other media outlets. NoFilmSchool has a rundown. Read the full Story >>
Nan Goldin’s life as a photographer and activist is the focus of the Oscar-nominated documentary All The Beauty and the Bloodshed. But the artist, who has said that photography is a way to “make bearable the things that felt unbearable,” is also the subject of a major exhibition at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, which has also awarded her the Käthe Kollwitz Prize. There is also a Golden career retrospective at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, which along with Steidl is publishing Nan Goldin: This Will Not End Well. Read the full Story >>
Travel is back after the pandemic, and MUO suggests that photo tours will be trending in 2023. That could provide photographers with a new revenue stream. The popularity of photo tours—experiences that combine traveling to amazing locations and photographic guidance from experts—comes with the growth of photography-centered travel. A substantial driver behind this trend involves the rise in the ability for people to work from home or abroad: Many people now find opportunities for building a fashion or lifestyle blog, and some of the best content for such sites involves capturing footage while traveling. Read the full Story >>
The death toll from the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that struck southern Turkey and northwestern Syria this week has climbed past 21,000. Monday’s quake is now Turkey’s deadliest since 1939 and one of the deadliest worldwide in decades, notes The New York Times. A massive rescue effort is underway, with tens of thousands of soldiers, workers, and volunteers still discovering and rescuing victims, adds The Atlantic’s In Focus photo blog, which features images from wire service photographers including Emin Sansar (Anadolu Agency/Getty). Read the full Story >>
