Palm Springs Photo Festival Friday July 7, 2023
Registration is now open for the 18th Palm Springs Photo Festival Workshop Program, which will take place this year from October 9 to 13 at the Margaritaville Resort Palm Springs. Workshop programs include "Duane Michals: On Being"; "Nadev Kander: Process & Practice"; "Cheryl Walsh: Shooting People Underwater"; "Barbara Davidson: Documentary & Photojournalism"; and "Stephen Wilkes: Creative a Cohesive Fine Art Body of Work."
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David Schonauer Friday July 7, 2023
So many people are worried about artificial intelligence, there's only one thing to do: Create even more powerful AI. This week we noted that Meta has announced what it calls a "human-like"
artificial intelligence image-generation model that can analyze and complete unfinished images more accurately than existing generative AI models. Meanwhile, AI image-generator Midjourney released an
update that includes a new "zoom out" feature … Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Thursday July 6, 2023
A photographer who paid $50,000 to an agency that promised to drastically grow her business by, among other things, providing 100,000 Instagram followers, has sued after allegedly seeing no uptick in business. The photographer, Aliyah Dastour, is suing Monopolize, a marketing agency, to retrieve the money she gave them for its “Done for You” package, which was supposed to grow her photo business “exponentially.” Dastour later raised concerns that the 100,000 Instagram followers she had received were fake accounts or “bots,” notes PetaPixel.
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Creative Boom Thursday July 6, 2023
Dating to 711 AD, bullfighting has central place in Spanish culture, but opinions are split over the relevance of the blood sport in the modern world, notes Creative Boom, which features photographer Owen Harvey’s series “Matador.” The work examines the lives of several generations of bullfighters and the wider culture of machismo. "Bullfighting lends itself to photography very well as it is an extremely visual subject, but more importantly, it holds those themes that I'm interested in exploring,” says Harvey.
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