ARTnews Monday June 17, 2024
The inaugural edition of the Photofairs New York took place last September, but there won’t be another one this year: A spokesperson for Creo, which operates the contemporary art fair dedicated to photo-based works, digital art and new media, tells ARTNews that market conditions and consultations with “our community of galleries and partners” led to the decision to cancel the 2024 iteration of the event. “Our priority is mounting a dynamic and high-quality event, so we feel it is best to hold the fair once market conditions improve,” the spokesperson said. Read the full Story >>
British Journal of Photography Monday June 17, 2024
Some 6.5 million people have been internally displaced by the struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Two million people have also fled the country, among them the family of photographer Saad Eltinay, who is included in the British Journal of photography’s “Ones to Watch” feature for 2024. Eltinay managed to get out after being kidnapped from his home in Khartoum by the RSF and accused of being an army sniper. He now explores family, memory and Sudanese masculinity from relative sanctuary in Paris.
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ANDROID AUTHORITY Monday June 17, 2024
We’ve become used to stories about AI-generated images winning photography contests, but this story has a twist: Android Authority reports that photographer Miles Astray entered a real photo of a flamingo into the the AI category of the 1839 Color Photography Awards and placed third, while also winning the contest’s People’s Choice Award. Astray said later his goal was to show that real-life art will always win over anything produced by a prompt box, adds Gizmodo. He was later disqualified from the competition, which is organized by the Creative Resource Collective.
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David Schonauer Monday June 17, 2024
She was a pioneering force in photography and visual documentation in the early 20th century, and her images are still seen around the world today. Yet her name remains largely unfamiliar, in part
because she was overshadowed by the men around her, including her husband, the influential painter and photographer Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. But now an exhibition at the Kunsthalle Praha in Prague and a … Read the full Story >>
