SFGate Monday November 13, 2023
Aubrie Pick, a celebrated San Francisco food and lifestyle photographer known for working on acclaimed cookbooks alongside Chrissy Teigen, Tanya Holland and Kristin Cavallari, died after a brief battle with lymphoma on Nov. 2, reports SF Gate. She was 42. Pick, who worked on Teigen’s Cravings: Hungry for Moreand a number of ad campaigns and magazine assignments, was a bastion of culinary photography in the Bay Area and beyond, adds SF Gate. “She just had this knack for naturally capturing people,” says Marcia Gagliardi, founder and publisher of the Tablehopper newsletter.
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Los Angeles Times Monday November 13, 2023
Standup comedy isn’t easy. Photographing stand-up comedy isn’t easy either. “What’s the best way to photograph a joke? How can a still image convey stage presence or audience connection?” asks the Los Angeles Times, which looks at several photographers capturing the energy of LA’s post-pandemic stand-up scene. “My instinct is to get a person’s character into a photo, whether it be goofy, gritty, messy, chic,” says Jill Petracek. It’s all about “expressions and their mannerisms,” adds Monique Hernandez.
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PetaPixel Monday November 13, 2023
While the camera industry has largely moved away from microSD cards — with the notable exception of the new Nikon Zf which features a second card slot that uses the format — they are still common in smartphones, drones, and small cameras like the GoPro Hero 12, notes PetaPixel. Now, SanDisk has announced a microSD card that it claims is the world’s fastest 1.5TB high-capacity UHS-I microSD card. The company says that the new card can reach read speeds of up to 150 MB/s but does not state how fast the card can write.
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British Journal of Photography Monday November 13, 2023
“The bombs blowing up in Belfast, in the UK, was the first live conflict I’d witnessed through the media, through the TV,” says photographer Mariusz Smiejek, who grew up behind the Iron Curtain in Poland. Now 45, Smiejek has been living in Northern Ireland since 2011, drawn there by a desire to understand the violent sectarian conflict known as The Troubles, notes the British Journal of Photography. His images documenting the intergenerational trauma of the conflict are gathered in the book No Surrender.
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