DP Review Friday April 5, 2024
Tamron has announced that its popular 28-75mm f/2.8 Di III VXD G2 (Model A063) zoom lens will be coming coming to Nikon Z system mirrorless cameras. The lens will be priced at $999, making it an affordable alternative to Nikon’s own 28-75mm F2.8 lens, notes DP Review. The 28-75mm f/2.8 G2 is the fourth Tamron lens to arrive for Nikon Z mirrorless cameras, joining the 35-150mm f/2-2.8 Di III VXD, 70-300mm f/4.5-6.3 Di III RXD, and 150-500mm f/5-6.7 Di III VC VXD, adds PetaPixel.
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Hasselblad Foundation Friday April 5, 2024
The Hasselblad Foundation has announced that British photographer Ingrid Pollard is the 2024 Hasselblad Award laureate. She receives a prize SEK 2,000,000 (about $200,000) and Hasselbad gear. Over four decades, notes Hasselblad, Pollard has used photography “to question deeply engrained social and cultural constructs behind race, identity, community, and gender. Her work reveals subtle and starkly evident injustices through her engagement with the British landscape, iconography, and identity.”
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The New York Times Friday April 5, 2024
After 39 years at The New York Times Magazine, 37 as director of photography, Kathy Ryan is retiring. “Kathy is an icon. She has truly had more impact than any magazine director of photography in our time. Within photography circles, she is a genuine legend,” noted NY Times Magazine Editor in Chief Jake Silverstein in a statement. Ryan plans to spend more time on her own photography, Silverstein noted. The work that she has overseen since becoming the magazine's DOP in 1987 has won World Press Photo Awards, Overseas Press Club Awards, Lucie Awards and National Magazine Awards, Silverstein added.
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David Schonauer Friday April 5, 2024
Model and entrepreneur Karly Kloss sees a future for picture magazines of the past. Kloss and her billionaire tech investor husband Joshua Kushner (brother of Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner)
are set to revive Life magazine, the iconic publication launched by Henry Luce in 1936 that made stars of photographers like Margaret Bourke-White and Alfred Eisenstaedt. Bedford Media, a holding
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