It’s Nice That Thursday May 11, 2023
“Agents of Change” is the theme of V&A museum’s inaugural Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography. The projects submitted capture political and societal instability, but also interrogate photography’s capacity to capture these shifts and create further evolution, notes It’s Nice That. Five winners were chosen by the prize selection committee. Among the work selected: Berlin-based Ukrainian photographer Anya Tsaruk’s series “Mother Land,” which explores how families have been affected by the war in Ukraine.
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Trunk Archive Thursday May 11, 2023
New York-based photo agency Trunk Archive has announced an exclusive partnership with the Helmut Newton Foundation for worldwide licensing representation of the archives of Helmut Newton and June Newton (aka Alice Springs). Over 500 images will be immediately viewable and searchable via the Trunk Archive platform, with more to follow, many rarely seen until now. Trunk says it will identify brand partners that are "aligned with the legacy" of Helmut and June Newton. Newton fans “may one day be able to buy beauty products, jewelry and luxury fashion apparel inspired by the late photographer,” notes WWD.
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The New York Times Thursday May 11, 2023
Buckingham Palace has released the official coronation portraits of King Charles and Queen Camilla, taken by British photographer Hugo Burnand. One portrait shows the King seated in the palace’s Throne Room dressed in full coronation regalia—the Robe of Estate and the Imperial State Crown while holding the Sovereign’s Orb and Sovereign’s Sceptre with Cross., notes CNN. Burnand tells The New York Times he wanted the image to feel intimate, and that he wanted to create a “little piece of theater.”
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The Guardian Thursday May 11, 2023
Arman Soldin, a 32-year-old video coordinator working for the Agence France-Presse news service, was killed in Ukraine on Monday in a Russian rocket strike near the battle-torn eastern city of Bakhmut. Soldin was with Ukrainian soldiers in the town of Chasiv Yar, reports The Guardian. At least 11 journalists, fixers and drivers for media organizations have been killed covering the war in Ukraine, according to Reporters Without Borders. Last week a Ukrainian fixer, Bogdan Bitik, was shot dead in the southern city of Kherson and the Italian correspondent Corrado Zunino injured.
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