THE VERGE Friday March 29, 2024
Web-based design platform Canva recently announced it had acquired Affinity, the pro photo-editing software suite that includes Affinity Photo. Earlier this year, PetaPixel picked Affinity Photo as the best overall alternative to Photoshop, praising it for its one-time fee and no subscription. The move by Canva, an Australia-based startup, sparked concern regarding the future of its one-time purchase pricing model. But, reports The Verge, both companies are now promising that users won’t be forced into subscribing to the service — ever.
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By David Schonauer Friday March 29, 2024
David Breashears, a mountain climber and cinematographer who reached the summit of Mount Everest five times--once for a film that became the highest-grossing IMAX documentary ever--died on March 14
at his home in Marblehead, Mass., at age 68. The cause of his death was not released by his family. By the time Breashears first reached the summit of Everest in 1983, he had developed … Read the full Story >>
GLOSSY Thursday March 28, 2024
Leica’s newly opened flagship store at 406 W, 13th Street in Manhattan’s Meatpacking district continues the company’s evolution “from photography icon to lifestyle brand,” declares Glossy, noting that Leica has invested heavily in watches and other luxury goods. Designed in monochrome shades of gray, the store pays homage to the black-and-white street photography of legendary New York photographers like Ralph Gibson and Bruce Gilden, adds the website. There is another Leica store in NYC, but it is privately owned, adds DIY Photography.
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Boing Boing Thursday March 28, 2024
Austin, Texas-based anthropologist, photographer, and artist Amanda Stronza creates exquisite memorials for dead animals that she finds on the side of the road and then photographs them to share with the world. Her mission, notes Boing Boing, is to honor the animals and remind us to see the beauty in the discarded and mundane. “For as long as I can remember, I have stopped to lift dead animals from roads. I cannot bear to leave them; the endless rush of cars, further assaulting their bodies, feels too cruel,” she notes.
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