Us Weekly Thursday May 2, 2024
From low-rise baggy jeans to colorful graphic tees and even K-Swiss sneakers, several standout trends from the early 2000s have been making a comeback—including vintage digital cameras. That make sense, says Us Weekly. “Since many people are already dressed up in their Y2K-inspired gear, why not bring back the era in full by taking vintage-style pictures to recreate photos from the time?” Recently, notes Us, the $50 Camkory FHD 1080P Digital Camera has been booming in TikTok-driven popularity, with 10,000 sold in the past month.
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CNN Thursday May 2, 2024
Photographer Constanze Han spent a month in 2022 driving down the highway connecting theTaiwan’s capital, Taipei, to the southern city of Kaohsiung, looking for what locals refer to as “betel nut beauties”—scantily clad women in glass booths selling a small, oblong fruit derived from areca palms that is chewed by millions of people across Asia as a stimulant. Han, who grew up between Hong Kong and New York, tells CNN she was inspired by photographer Susan Meiselas’s iconic 1970s photo series “Carnival Strippers.”
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PetaPixel Thursday May 2, 2024
Stock photo website Depositphotos has launched an AI image generator for businesses that it says is commercially safe to use, ensuring that no copyrighted logos, objects, or “any other elements that could pose a risk in commercial settings” are included. The text-to-image model has been made in partnership with Bria.ai, a company that has previously stated it takes a “responsible” approach to copyright and generative AI, notes PetaPixel. Users of Depositphotos’ new tool will be provided with a standard license for both digital and print usage across various platforms including advertising, marketing, UI designs, product packaging and more.
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The New York Times Thursday May 2, 2024
“Across the country, African American burial grounds have been paved over by parking lots, performance halls and highways. Some have a marker; other sites have been erased or forgotten.” So writes photographer Caroline Gutman at The New York Times. Gutman, notes the newspaper, has spent several years searching for a history hiding in plain sight. “My reporting first brought me to a strip mall in northeast Baltimore, where a Food Depot, Dollar General and Shoppers World sat on top of the remains of over 10,000 graves,” Gutman writes.
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