"How does it feel to grow up as a teenager in Kyoto? How does it feel to become an adult in a place that is still very much attached to these old ways of seeing the world?" That questioned, posed by photographer Coco Capitan, lies at the heart of her series "Ookini"--a word meaning "thank you" in the dialect of Kyoto, Japan. Capitan spent … Read the full Story >>
Three years ago, Meta paid $400 million for Giphy, the main supplier of animated gifs to social networks such as Snapchat, TikTok and Twitter. Now, Meta has sold Giphy to Shutterstock for $50 million. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority had ordered the sale in November 2021, after determining Meta's acquisition of Giphy would harm competition in social media and advertising. Last September, Meta appealed to the CMA to try to prevent the sale, noting that gifs have fallen out of fashion as a content form, “with younger users in particular describing gifs as 'for boomers.’” Read the full Story >>
Capturing a golden era of the international jet-set, photographer Slim Aarons is remembered for creating vibrant images that embody “the beauty of affluence,” notes the Tattler, which recently spotlighted some of Aarons’s most memorable photos, 17 years after his death. Following his own experience of the Second World War, Aarons dedicated himself to portraying “the uniquely expensive brand of tranquillity and bliss that was beyond the reach of the average American,” explains the Tatler. Read the full Story >>
A paparazzi photographer is suing Kanye West over an alleged incident in which the rapper grabbed her phone and threw it into traffic, reports Billboard. The photographer, Nichol Lechmanik, alleges that West reached into her car and “ripped her phone out of her hands” before throwing it “onto the street towards oncoming traffic” during the Jan. 27 incident outside the Sports Academy in Newbury Park, Calif. The lawsuit marks the latest controversy involving the unpredictable Grammy Award-winning musician and fashion designer, adds the Los Angeles Times. Read the full Story >>
