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Wonderful Machine Monday November 6, 2023
The Kingdom of Tonga is composed of 171 islands in Polynesia and is part of greater Oceania. Though there are roughly 200,000 Tongans worldwide, diaspora communities in Australia, New Zealand, Japan,
America, and the United Kingdom now represent almost half of the total Tongan world population. Both in the country and abroad, the Tongan national sport is rugby. This May, Cardiff, United
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PetaPixel Friday November 3, 2023
A photographer who won the “world’s largest photo competition” and took home the grand prize worth over $25,000 won it with a staged picture, reports PetaPixel. Indonesian photographer Dikye Ariani was the overall winner of the CEWE Photo Awards 2023, whose theme was “Our world is beautiful.” Ariani’s winning photo purported to show the owner of a traditional Indonesian cafe, known as a Warung Kopi, enthusiastically playing cards. The photos were in fact taken at a conceptual photo shoot held at a studio to mark the launch of a camera on November 20, 2022, in Bogor, Indonesia, notes PP.
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KICKSTARTER Friday November 3, 2023
Through her Remembering Wildlife project, British photographer Margot Raggett aims to aids wildlife conservation efforts—she started the initiative in 2016, and every year since then it has produced a photo book dedicated to one type of animal, capturing its beauty in images from across the globe. All profits are donated to conservation efforts for that animal, with more than £1 million ($1.2 million) raised since the project began, notes CNN. The new book Remembering Leopardsfeatures work from a number of noted wildlife photographers.
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DP Review Friday November 3, 2023
Leica's newly launched M11-P is a low-key version of the company’s 60MP M11 rangefinder, nominally modified for photojournalism, notes DP Review, but it’s the the first camera to reach the market that can digitally sign its files and add “Content Credentials” metadata using the system developed by the Content Authenticity Initiative. This secure metadata is saved in parallel to the conventional EXIF data and can be used to confirm who created the image and whether edits and additions have been made, providing a provable history for applications such as reportage, where provenance is critical.
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