Roman Fox Wednesday September 27, 2023
Lots of experts advise photographers to specialize in order to create a sustainable business model. But what if they’re wrong? In a new video, YouTuber Roman Fox makes the case for being a jack of all trades—not only in photography, but in life. To become a master at one thing, you may have to put other interests aside, and, he notes, you might be less fulfilled as a person and as an artist. Do landscape photography, and do portraiture, he says. Do you agree?
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COLOSSAL Wednesday September 27, 2023
Photographer Alberto Seveso is known for his high-speed captures of ink as it disperses in water; his newest series, “The Reef,” was inspired by marine organisms: The work, notes Colossal, captures vivid plumes in shades of greens, pinks, and oranges digitally altered to evoke coral-like forms. The series was born out of a holiday spent in a remote, largely uninhabited region in the Andaman Sea, where Seveso encountered a lush jungle and wide, sandy beaches.
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The New York Times Wednesday September 27, 2023
More than a dozen prominent novelists, including John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen and George R.R. Martin, are joining the legal battle against OpenAI, accusing the company, which has been backed with billions of dollars in investment from Microsoft, of infringing on their copyrights by using their books to train its popular ChatGPT chatbot. The complaint says that OpenAI’s chatbots can now produce “derivative works” that can mimic and summarize the authors’ books, potentially harming the market for authors’ work. A handful of other lawsuits have been filed in recent months by writers against OpenAI and Meta, notes The New York Times.
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Blind Wednesday September 27, 2023
The book Fragments brings together coverage of the war in Ukraine from members of the French photo agency MYOP, including Guillaume Binet, Laurence Geai, Zen Lefort, Chloé Sharrock, Michel Slomka, and Adrienne Surprenant. “In our small way, we’re trying to improve the daily lives of people living in terrible conditions. That’s what gives meaning to this project,” MYOP’s editorial director, Antoine Kimmerlin, tells Blind, which calls the book “a raw, silent chronicle of events spanning from February 2022 to February 2023.”
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