DIYPhotography Tuesday February 27, 2024
We recently noted that Days Inn is launching a contest offering two photographers a chance to photograph the April 8 solar eclipse from a helicopter. But there’s another lofty way to shoot the eclipse: DIY Photography reports that Delta Airlines is offering a special flight from Austin, Texas, to Detroit on April 8, 2024, allowing passengers to spend as much time as possible directly within the path of totality. Delta Flight 1218 will depart from Austin at 12:15 p.m. CT and arrive in Detroit at 4:20 p.m. ET.
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FRIEZE Tuesday February 27, 2024
During the Vietnam War, the CIA recruited ethnic Hmong people in Laos to fight in support of US forces. When the US pulled out of Laos, it left its Hmong allies exposed to reprisals. Pao Houa Her’s parents left Laos in 1983, shortly after she was born, and stayed in refugee camps in Thailand before settling in Minnesota, where she lives today. That history of displacement informs Her’s photography, but, notes Frieze, her images meditate on the dreams that sustain her and her community. Her work is collected in a new book from Aperture.
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artnet Tuesday February 27, 2024
Specialist insurer Hiscox says in a recent report that museum visitors taking selfies in museums are damaging valuable paintings, objects, and installations by walking into them backwards. Hiscox’s head of art and private clients, Robert Read, dubbed the phenomenon “a pandemic of selfies” because the consequences are happening at prominent art institutions across the globe, notes Artnet. Hiscox says half of its art underwriting business is attributed to accidental damage, with a large percentage caused by selfie-takers.
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The Photographers’ Gallery Tuesday February 27, 2024
Through June 2, The Photographers’ Gallery in London presents work from the four artists nominated for the 2024 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize: Valie Export, Gauri Gill and Rajesh Vangad, Lebohang Kganye and Hrair Sarkissian. “The shortlisted artists all demonstrate photography’s unique capacity to reveal what is invisible, forgotten or marginalized and imagine a path to redress,” notes The Guardian, which spotlights the collection. The winner of the £30,000 prize will be announced on May 16.
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