It’s Nice That Monday March 6, 2023
At the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, photographer and visual artist Orianne Ciantar Olive sought to bring people’s attention to the ways in which daily life found a way to go on amid the fighting. After encountering photos and stories of Ukrainian youth documenting their lives online – some still living in Ukraine, some having escaped – Orianne created an Instagram account in March 2022 for people to submit their images and words, thus collating war-torn testimonies in a new, sensitive way. A year later, notes It’s Nice That, the IG project, called “Stuck in Here,” is being turned into a book.
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British Journal of Photography Monday March 6, 2023
In the first days of February 2014, Anastasia Taylor-Lind found herself stranded in the Ukrainian city of Kyiv at a momentous time, notes the British Journal of Photography: She ended up documenting what would become known as the Revolution of Dignity – deadly clashes that culminated in the ousting of the pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych. Taylor-Lind has returned to Ukraine many times over the past eight years, creating work now on view at London’s Imperial War Museum in the exhibition “Ukraine: Photographs from the Frontline.”
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Reuters Monday March 6, 2023
The American Civil Liberties Union has urged Congress not to ban the Chinese-owned video app TikTok, saying it would violate the free speech rights of millions of Americans, notes Reuters. A bill recently taken up by the House Foreign Affairs Committee would give President Joe Biden new powers to ban the app, which is used by more than 100 million Americans. Representative Michael McCaul, chair of the House committee, noted that TikTok "allows (China) to manipulate and monitor its users while it gobbles up Americans' data to be used for their malign activities.”
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David Schonauer Monday March 6, 2023
In December of 1863, Julia Margaret Cameron received her first camera, a gift from her daughter and son-in-law. At the time, Cameron was 48 and the mother of six children, all grown or living at
boarding school. With her husband in Ceylon attending to the family's coffee plantations, she was leading an isolated life on the Isle of Wight, and photography became a consuming … Read the full Story >>
