PRINT Monday April 24, 2023
UK photographer Joe Horne knows that it’s good to stop and smell the roses: Combining flowers with mirrors, ice, and other unexpected materials, Horner is on a continuous journey of using his camera to recontextualize florals, notes Print magazine. “My creations are a celebration of the seasons, a reflection of each time of year. I take to the wilds of my local area, gathering flowers to incorporate into my work. There is nothing quite like the thrill of the hunt,” says Horne, adding that he approaches the work with a “go-with-the-flow attitude.”
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The New York Times Monday April 24, 2023
In 2019, Taylor Hazlewood posted a picture of himself holding a friend’s hatchet on Instagram as a tribute to his favorite childhood book, Hatchet, a young-adult wilderness survival novel by Gary Paulsen. Now, notes The New York Times, that image has surfaced in a starkly different genre: Hazlewood is suing Netflix for using his photo in The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker, a true-crime documentary about a hitchhiker turned convicted murderer. A 27-year-old respiratory therapist from Kentucky, Hazlewood has never been associated with any murder,. He is seeking $1 million in damages for defamation and the misappropriation of his likeness.
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Wonderful Machine Monday April 24, 2023
Winning an award in international photo contests is the dream of many photographers and often the pinnacle of their careers. Beyond that, there is no doubt that winning a respected award can be a
massive boon to a photographer's career. Many photographers find that participating in awards can not only get their work noticed and give them credibility as a photographer, but also spur … Read the full Story >>
Popular Mechanics Friday April 21, 2023
Using ultraviolet (UV) photography, a researcher from the Austrian Academy of Sciences has discovered a lost fragment of Biblical text, nearly 1,500 years after it was originally written, notes Popular Mechanics. Announcing the discovery in the journal New Testament Studies, medievalist Grigory Kessel notes that he found the hidden chapter — an interpretation of Matthew chapter 12 — underneath three layers of text. The new find represents one of the earliest translations of the Gospels. A document like this, where one layer of text hides the erased remains of another, is called a palimpsest.
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