Deadline Thursday March 14, 2024
Photographer James Hamilton shot everyone from LL Cool J and Alfred Hitchcock to Muhammad Ali and Meryl Streep. The documentary Uncropped, which explores Hamilton’s work over decades for The Village Voice, Harper’s Bazaar, and The New York Observer, will have a theatrical opening on April 26 at IFC Center in New York, accompanied by Q&As with the filmmakers, Hamilton and special guests. The film will be released on digital platforms on May 7, notes Deadline. The film opens a window onto “the heyday of independent journalism,” notes a press release.
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LEICA Thursday March 14, 2024
Leica has announced the recipients of its fifth annual Leica Women Foto Project Award—Camille Farrah Lenain (US), Stasia Schmidt (Canada), Luvia Lazo {Mexico) and Adenike Sogsbesan, also known as Dola Posh (the UK). “For this year’s Leica Women Foto Project, we encouraged applicants to share visual stories of reclamation, resilience, or rebirth,” notes Karin Kaufmann, art director of all Leica galleries worldwide, at The Washington Post. The awards aim to “empower the female perspective and its impact on today’s visual stories.”
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DP Review Thursday March 14, 2024
As of the end of February, the current has seen a wealth of new cameras, notes DP Review, which has a list of the biggest releases thus far in 2024. Among them: the Fujifilm X100VI, which is already backordered at some retailers, the Sony a9 III, which introduced a global shutter, and the OM System OM-1 Mark II, a high-speed Micro Four Thirds camera based around a 20MP Stacked CMOS sensor. There are also some remarkable new lenses.
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David Schonauer Thursday March 14, 2024
Behold the yellow-crested helmetshrike (Prionops alberti). Endemic to the western slopes of the Albertine Rift of Central Africa, the helmetshrike has not been seen by scientists for almost 20
years--so long that it was listed as a 'lost bird' by the American Bird Conservancy. That changed when an international research team traversed 75 miles of steep terrain in the Itombwe Massif
mountain range of … Read the full Story >>
