Vital Impacts Monday April 8, 2024
It’s the big Nine-O for famed primatologist Jane Goodall, and to celebrate the occasion 90 female wildlife and landscape photographers from around the world are offering work in a 90-day print sale that began on April 1. The Jane Goodall Institute and Vital Impacts, the non-profit launched by photographer Ami Vitale and Eileen Mignoni, have collaborated on the sale, with 60 percent of the proceeds going to the institute. Vital Impacts, supports individuals and organizations dedicated to protecting Earth and its ecosystems through art and storytelling. Vogue has more.
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David Schonauer Monday April 8, 2024
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Anja Niedringhaus died on April 4, 2014, killed by an Afghan police commander who emptied his AK-47 rifle into the car in which she was sitting. Last Thursday, 10
years to the day since Niedringhaus's death, the Bronx Documentary Center opened an exhibition of her images from Afghanistan and Pakistan. At an opening reception, the International Women's Media
Foundation announced the … Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Friday April 5, 2024
Astrophotographer, author, and educator Alyn Wallace, who achieved renown with his YouTube channel, died in Istanbul on March 28 at the age of 34. The cause, notes PetaPixel, was a severe infection that caused multiple organ failure. Alongside his popular YouTube channel, which has nearly 150,000 subscribers, Wallace published an acclaimed book, Photographing the Night Sky. The winner of numerous awards, Wallace also saw his work featured across publications including National Geographic, BBC Earth, and The Guardian.
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The Atlantic Friday April 5, 2024
As we’ve noted previously, next week’s total solar eclipse could be extra dramatic: The eclipse coincides with a period when the sun will be particularly active and it may will look very spiky—like a “very irritated little hedgehog,” according to solar physicist Scott McIntosh. In anticipation of the big show, The Atlantic’s In Focus photo blog has shares images from the recent (and not-so-recent) past of previous eclipses—annular, partial, and total—from around the world. Space.com has some ideas for photographing the eclipse.
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