It’s Nice That Monday June 5, 2023
“Documenting an artist in their studio space felt special and important from the very start,” says UK photographer Brynley Odu Davies, whose portrait series is spotlighted at It’s Nice That. “There was something natural and real about it, capturing the artist at ease in their own environment surrounded by their work, and in doing so telling a bit of their story.” Hoping to capture more than the London art scene, the photographer traveled widely, from Glasgow to Northern Ireland to the south coast.
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Mashable Monday June 5, 2023
Apple has announced that it is closing down My Photo Stream, the company’s original cloud-based photo syncing service, as of July 26. Apple advised users of the service to move their images to iCloud Photos. My Photo Stream was introduced alongside iCloud in 2011 as a free wifi-based option for users to temporarily store images in one digital location and then save or upload them across the rest of their Apple devices on-the-go, notes Mashable. My Photo Stream only worked for JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and RAW image formats and saved them at a lower resolution to reduce storage on iPhone, iPad, and other devices.
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CNN Monday June 5, 2023
Hours after Russia’s invasion, Ukraine’s railway workers became rescue workers, as thousands of refugees from the country’s eastern regions poured into train stations in the west. Photojournalist Jelle Krings was in Lviv, watching the evacuation trains come in, notes CNN, which features a report with Krings’s photos and video. “That’s when it hit me how courageous these men and women were for going back into the war zone and sacrificing their safety,” says Krings, who has continued to document the work of the unsung railway heroes.
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ARTnews Monday June 5, 2023
Drew Sawyer, a curator at the Brooklyn Museum, has been appointed the Whitney Museum’s Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography, reports Art News. He will start the new job in July. Elisabeth Sussman, the curator who had long held the Whitney post, is set to remain on the museum’s staff, though the Whitney did not specify what her role would be. At the Brooklyn Museum, Sawyer’s exhibitions included a recent retrospective for Jimmy DeSana, a photographer whose sexually frank art made him a key member of the 1980s art scene before he died of AIDS-related causes in 1990.
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