The New York Times Wednesday July 19, 2023
Mikala Jones, a professional surfer known for his photography and videos filmed from inside the tubes of breaking waves, has died on July 9 after an accident while he was surfing in Indonesia, reports The New York Times. His father, John Jones, said that his son, 44, was out on the waves during a trip to the Mentawai Islands off the western coast of Sumatra when the fin on his surfboard sliced his femoral artery. Jones made some of the sport’s best point-of-view videos using techniques that he had worked on for more than a decade, including board-mounted cameras and rigs he held in his hand, before he started a collaboration with GoPro.
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Center for Photography Woodstock Wednesday July 19, 2023
From July 21-23, the Center for Photography Woodstock presents a new photo festival in Kingston, New York, its hometown in the Hudson Valley. The First Annual Kingston Photo Festival is a free event featuring photo exhibitions, portrait studios, hands-on workshops, photo book fair, and film screenings, as well as music and food. The weekend kicks off on Friday night with an evening of photos and film curated by experimental documentary film artist & photographer Bill Daniel, from 7:30-9:30pm.
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PetaPixel Wednesday July 19, 2023
What cameras do people want? Fujifilm has revealed that its Instax instant camera line is one of the most important for its entire imaging division and accounts for a majority of sales, notes PetaPixel. Square-format instant film has shown a huge leap in popularity over the years: As revealed in Fujifilm’s 2022 financial report, Instax-related products account for the majority of Fujifilm’s Consumer Imaging Segment, which had sales of 266.9 billion yen in 2022, an increase of 22 percent over the previous year. This segment accounts for 65 percent of the sales in the entire Imaging Business division, which includes all of Fujifilm’s cameras.
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The New York Times Wednesday July 19, 2023
As Ukrainian troops inch forward in the counteroffensive, they are occupying positions abandoned by enemy troops—trench lines, bunkers and firing positions in abandoned buildings. Before leaving, the Russians had little time to clear abandoned clothing, body armor, ponchos, bedding and leftover military rations of their enemy, notes The New York Times in a report featuring front-line photographs by David Guttenfelder. “It’s our land but it’s not very comfortable to be here. It doesn’t feel like home,” says one Ukrainian soldier.
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