Women’s Wear Daily Tuesday June 20, 2023
Photographer Paolo Di Paolo, known for capturing the glamour and grit of postwar Italy, died on June 12 at age 98 in his hometown of Larino, in the country’s central region of Molise, notes WWD. Di Paolo’s reportage of luminous movie stars, writers, directors of Italian cinema, agricultural and factory workers, and the poor – all in the spirit of empathetic curiosity — provided a unique perspective on the country at a time of great change, noted The Guardian last year.
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The Washington Post Tuesday June 20, 2023
When Emily Monforte set out to chronicle the lives of transgender teens in Los Angeles, notes The Washington Post, the California-based photographer “wanted to tell a universal story of self-discovery, to capture the turbulence and ordinariness” of becoming a young adult. “In regular, everyday life, it is not a crazy journey that looks like a movie or a fairy tale or a dystopian story — it looks like every other teenage experience, which is just living life," says Monforte, who focused on two trans girls living in L.A.
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Indiewire Tuesday June 20, 2023
Documentary filmmakers are speaking out about the toll the filmmaking process takes on their mental health, notes Indiewire. “The documentary film industry is in crisis,” declares Rebecca Day, a British psychotherapist who is a co-founder of DocuMentality, an initiative pushing the documentary film community to talk more openly about the issue of mental health. Over the past two years, more than a dozen film production companies have turned to the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma for training to support doc filmmakers covering trauma.
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BBC Tuesday June 20, 2023
It’s a big month for Beatles fans, with the announcement of a new song from the Fab Four, courtesy of artificial Intelligence. Then there is a new exhibition, “Paul McCartney, Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of the Storm,” at London's reopened National Portrait Gallery, and a new book, 1964: Eyes of the Storm, featuring more than 200 images taken by McCartney and rediscovered by Sir Paul in his production company archives in 2020. The BBC takes a closeup look at the images everyone is talking about.
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