artnet Tuesday April 11, 2023
Seattle-based British photographer Michael Kenna has garnered an international reputation for his black-and-white landscape images—he was recently named an Officer of Arts and Letters by the Ministry of Culture of France, recognizing his significant contribution to the arts and for his achievements in photography, notes Artnet, which talks with Kenna about his work. “I love the words of Rumi: ‘Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray,’” he says.
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Digital Camera World Tuesday April 11, 2023
With a new firmware update, the Canon EOS R5 can shoot 400MP images – almost a tenfold increase over the camera's native 45MP resolution, notes Digital Camera World. Firmware update v1.81 adds pixel shift technology to the camera, enabling it to capture staggeringly detailed high-resolution images. The new capability not only gives the R5 quadruple the resolution of the Fujifilm GFX 100S and Hasselblad X2D 100C, it even matches the 400MP pixel shift capabilities of Fujifilm's 100MP cameras, adds DCW.
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de Young Museum Tuesday April 11, 2023
The exhibition “Ansel Adams in Our Time,” on view at San Francisco’s de Young museum through July 23, looks back and forward, juxtaposing the work of the self-described “California photographer” with that of contemporary artists and the photographers who influenced him. The show reveals that Adams photographed far more than the Golden State’s wilderness during his decades-long career as a photographer and environmentalist, from Los Angeles freeways to Japanese-American internment camps during World War II, notes The New York Times.
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New York Post Tuesday April 11, 2023
A professional wedding photographer is dividing social media after claiming in a TikTok video that she was forced to eat a steak with her bare hands — on the floor — when the bride and groom’s venue failed to provide her with a fork and knife. Photographer Megan Claire, from Orange County, California, also said she’s been forced to suffer for eight hours before she can take a potty break, notes the New York Post. But rather than showing sympathy, the post prompted comments rebuking Claire for expecting to be afforded the same amenities as wedding guests. “You’re the help,” read one response.
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