People Tuesday May 21, 2024
Just hours before a Georgia bride was set to walk down the aisle, her photographer called and said she was having a “medical problem” and “wasn't going to be there.” The bride, Allison Gardner, who had booked Georgia wedding photographer Danielle Caldwell two months ahead of her wedding, decided to take the matter to court. A Coweta County Judge charged the photographer with theft by conversion, and now, notes People, Caldwell has been ordered to serve one year probation and to pay Gardner $900 within six months. Caldwell says she cancelled after feeling ill.
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The Guardian Tuesday May 21, 2024
Photographer Darlyne Komukama and three other Ugandan women found a unique way to explore what she calls “the idea of Black hair practices as systems of knowledge.” For their art project "Salooni," the trio set up a roving hair salon that gave out free hairstyles and made space for Black women “to convene, converse and connect” over all the good and difficult things about Black hair. “There’s a proverb that informed this project: ‘When your sister does your hair, you don’t need a mirror,’” Komukama writes at The Guardian.
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PetaPixel Tuesday May 21, 2024
Capture One has replaced its Multi User license system with what it calls Capture One Studio for Teams, and, notes PetaPixel, while it has some improved features—including AI Crop, a faster AI, and what it calls “Tethering Boost”—it also costs upwards of 344 percent more per year: A 10-seat Multi-User annual subscription that formerly cost $1,598 now costs $5,500. It’s all part of Capture One’s move away from perpetual software licenses, adds PP.
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GDT Nature Photographer of the Year Tuesday May 21, 2024
“Winter is my favorite time of year and one of my [favorite] motifs is the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Elbe River Landscape,” notes photographer Dieter Damschen, whose image of an icily tranquil forest in one of the last remaining near-natural rivers in Central Europe is the overall winner of the 2024 GDT Nature Photographer of the Year competition. The competition, organized by the Germany Society for Nature Photographers to highlight the talent of its members, drew 8,000 entries from 13 countries, notes My Modern Met.
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