MSN Friday September 8, 2023
A high school football photographer in Kansas has died, according to reports, after players ran into her during a game, reports MSN. The photographer, Linda Gregory, and her husband, Mel, have been shooting photos for Wichita Northwest’s football team for years. During Monday night’s game she was reportedly run into by players, causing her to fall and hit her head on concrete. The Wichita Northwest football team’s Facebook account shared photos of Gregory Wednesday and wrote, “RIP Linda! You will never know how much you meant to us!” See also: the Wichita Eagle.
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Minimalist Photography Awards Friday September 8, 2023
Martin Annand of the United Kingdom wins the Minimalist Photographer of the Year top prize in the 2023 Minimalist Photography Awards for his series “Ashored.” He says his collection of images from the seaside in the UK (and further afield) was “born from the love of long exposure photography and the coast.” Organized by the BnW Minimalism Magazine, this year’s awards drew more than 3,100 photographs from 31 different countries. The awards celebrate works that “strip away distractions,” notes founder Milad Safabakhsh.
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PHOTOFAIRS NYC Friday September 8, 2023
New York City gets a new photo art fair this weekend: Photofairs NYC — the first New York edition of a photo fair that has been held annually in Shanghai since 2014 — will feature a range of photo-based and digital art from more than 150 artists from around the world. “There hasn’t been a fair that’s been fully dedicated to celebrating photography and new media in New York City,” director Helen Toomer tells Barrons. “It was too much of a beautiful challenge to ignore.” The fair runs at the Jacob Javits center in New York from Sept. 8 to 10.
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David Schonauer Friday September 8, 2023
Artificial intelligence-generated images are becoming harder to distinguish from real ones, and the potential for spreading misinformation is causing alarm, especially with the 2024 presidential
campaign ramping up. As we noted this week, Google thinks it has a solution: The company is testing a tool called SynthID, which embeds a digital watermark on images. The watermark that can't be seen
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