CNBC Tuesday July 25, 2023
Sean Audet stumbled into photography as a career by accident, notes CNBC. Back in 2016, Audet, trained as a fine-dining chef, was running a pop-up restaurant two nights a week and working in culinary research at Red River College in Winnipeg, Canada. While developing new recipes for the college’s clients—small- and medium-sized restaurants—he had an idea: He and his students could stage and photograph food to help those clients advertise their businesses. He’s now a professional food photographer, and his one-time side hustle brings in $134,000 a year.
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Fraenkel Gallery Tuesday July 25, 2023
On view through Aug. 12 at San Francisco’s Fraenkel Gallery is the exhibition “New Old Pictures/New New Pictures,” which marks the debut of photographer Richard Misrach’s newest series, titled “Cargo.” The work—studies of maritime traffic in San Francisco Bay— raises questions about international commerce and the supply chain upon which the world now depends, notes the gallery. “They draw attention to a moment in time but don’t qualify as journalism or abstraction,” Misrach tells the San Francisco Chronicle.
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PetaPixel Tuesday July 25, 2023
Photo-sharing site Flickr will expand its partnership with Wikimedia Commons to upgrade its Flirckr2Commons tool and make uploading Creative Commons-licensed images easier, notes PetaPixel. The Flickr2Commons tool, which lets Wikimedia contributors upload files from Flickr, came out in 2013. Flickr is already one of the database's largest sources. Last year, the non-profit Flickr Foundation was launched in an effort to preserve and maintain accessibility of historic and culturally significant images.
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Middle East Eye Tuesday July 25, 2023
Since starting work three decades ago, Palestinian photographer Nasser Ishtayeh Ishtayeh has been shot 11 times, notes Middle East Eye. He spends his life covering clashes in the ancient city of Nablus in the northern West Bank. Last month, both Reporters Without Borders and the International Federation of Journalists condemned what both organizations described as "systematic" attacks on Palestinian journalists and a "culture of impunity" within Israeli security forces, adds MEE.
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