The New Humanitarian Friday August 18, 2023
Six months since a devastating series of earthquakes hit southern Turkey and northern Syria, The New Humanitarian asked four Syrian photographers living in the northwest — a part of the country hit particularly hard by the disaster, and already in the midst of devastating poverty, mass displacement, and rising hunger — to document life in the months since the quakes, which killed more than 50,000 people and injured more than 100,000 across both countries. They captured the hard work of recovery.
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DIYPhotography Friday August 18, 2023
When it comes to bokeh, most people typically are on the lookout for smooth, round, creamy bokeh or they want that oval anamorphic look—but, notes DIY Photography, TTArtisan is taking things in a different direction with its new 100mm f/2.8 Bubble Bokeh lens. Bubbles? That’s right. “It’s an interesting look, if perhaps not desirable for ever session,” adds DIYP. The lens is available to buy now for $183 in M42 mount.
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PetaPixel Friday August 18, 2023
Online education platform MasterClass has been accused of using a tracking tool to transmit certain customer information to Meta for the purposes of advertising without users’ consent, notes PetaPixel. The law firm Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman, PLLC is currently gathering MasterClass subscribers together in order to take action against Yanka Industries, the owner of the online education platform. MasterClass offers online classes taught by professionals, including photographers Annie Leibovitz and Jimmy Chin.
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Wonderful Machine Friday August 18, 2023
Brooklyn-based music and performing arts photographer Dan Robinson recently wrapped work on a documentary short film that follows UK-based singer-songwriter Samm Henshaw through his debut album and
world tour "Untidy Soul." Says Robinson: My work lives in a middle ground of true-to-life, raw, documentary-style imagery but has a refined commercial touch to it. I like using mixed media and
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