Photographic World Cup Tuesday April 18, 2023
There’s the FIFA World Cup for soccer fans, but did you know there’s a Photographic World Cup competition? The event was founded in 2013 “with the singular goal to unite photographers worldwide in the spirit of friendship and cooperation,” notes Digital Camera World. Each country is able to enter one team into the competition, and to be part of the team, you must be vetted by a national association. The winners of this year’s competition (for the second year in a row): Mexico. Australia takes second.
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CNN Tuesday April 18, 2023
Montana has become the first US state to pass legislation banning TikTok on all personal devices, notes CNN. The GOP-controlled Montana House of Representatives sent a bill to Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte on Friday that would make it illegal to download TikTok in the state, with penalties of up to $10,000 a day for any entity, such as Apple and Google's app stores or TikTok itself, that makes the popular video-streaming app available.The development comes as states and the federal government are looking at TikTok bans overs fears that the Chinese government could request Americans' data from the app, adds NPR.
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David Schonauer Tuesday April 18, 2023
As we noted recently, the Sony World Photography Awards recently published the impressive winners and shortlists of its Open competition. But a discussion quickly erupted over the winning image in the
Creative category. German photo-media artist Boris Eldagsen's image "PSEUDOMNESIA | The Electrician," is described as "a haunting black-and-white portrait of two women from different generations,
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The New York Times Monday April 17, 2023
Neal Boenzi, a photographer who for more than 40 years at The New York Times captured aspects of city life from firefighters fleeing a falling wall to a man walking a goose, died on Monday at an elder care facility in Newhall, CA, reports the newspaper. He was 97. “There’s an aspect of Weegee in his photographs, that grittiness of New York, but with a lighter touch, less macabre,” noted Fred Ritchin, dean emeritus of the International Center of Photography. “Maybe even a New York version of the humanism that one sees in the work of French photographers such as Robert Doisneau and Cartier-Bresson.”
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