PinkLady Food Photographer of the Year Tuesday June 6, 2023
A portrait of a cotton candy seller is the winner of the 2023 PinkLady Food Photographer of the Year competition. UK-based photographer John Enoch shot the image, titled “The Candyman,” in Mumbai, India. The photo was part of a personal project, noted Enoch. “Ever since I first saw the candy floss sellers I was drawn to the shapes, colors, and juxtaposition of the candy and the urban environment,” noted Enoch. The photo is also the winner of the contest’s Street Food category,” he said.
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THE VERGE Tuesday June 6, 2023
Twitter is expanding its crowdsourced fact-checking program to include images, shortly after a fake image went viral claiming to show an “explosion” near the Pentagon. Community Notes, which are user-generated and appear below tweets, were introduced to add context to potentially misleading content on Twitter. Now contributors will be able to add information specifically related to an image, and that context will populate below recent and future matching images, notes The Verge.
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David Schonauer Monday June 5, 2023
In 1992, the photography art book was beginning to be mainstreamed, just as fashion, art, and celebrity were being mixed together in a heady brew that would change culture going forward. Not
coincidentally, that year saw the release of a boundary-pushing book titled "SEX," featuring images by fashion photographer Steven Meisel and starring Madonna (joined by a few other well known
cultural figures) in … Read the full Story >>
Press Gazette Monday June 5, 2023
A new study has found that news consumers prefer short-form videos that are produced or edited by journalists to those generated exclusively by artificial intelligence, notes the Press Gazette, a UK-based publication focused on media issues. For the research, 4,200 people were shown clips from 14 news events. For each news story, one video was highly automated, one was partially automated with input from human editors, and the third was fully human-made. Dr Neil Thurman of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich – who conducted the research — said the highly-automated videos “tended to be a little bit repetitive with the images that they used.”
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