Divernet Wednesday June 12, 2024
For nearly 40 years, countless divers have developed their image-making skills using diver Martin Edge’s ground-breaking book The Underwater Photographer as their go-to guide, notes Divernet, which reports the Edge died on June 3 at age 69. There have been five editions of his classic book, which successfully bridged the transition from film to digital photography with its third and fourth editions in 2005 and 2009 respectively. Edge “helped the world take sharper, clearer, cleaner, more-colorful and, above all, more-compelling underwater photographs,” adds Scuba Diver magazine,
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AnOther Wednesday June 12, 2024
Exposure to film and TV from the US has introduced the tradition of high school prom to the UK, notes AnOther. “It’s serious in Wales now,” says the creative director and filmmaker Charlotte James, who has been collaborating with French-born photographer Clémentine Schneidermann on an ongoing project about teens in the South Wales Valleys. For their latest effort, the pair have manufactured their own take on prom,with a new magazine, Ffasiwn Magazine Spring Summer 2024.
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PetaPixel Wednesday June 12, 2024
Sigma’s newly announced 28-45mm f/1.8 DG DN Art lens for Sony E and Leica L-mount cameras is the world’s first zoom with a constant f/1.8 aperture for full-frame mirrorless camera systems. Sigma says the new lens doesn’t compromise on optical performance and instead provides an experience that would be expected from carrying multiple prime lenses. The lens has a minimum focusing distance of 11.8 inches (30 centimeters) throughout the entire zoom range and a maximum magnification ratio of 1:4 at 45mm, notes PetaPixel.
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The Washington Post Wednesday June 12, 2024
Photographer Felipe Jacome has spent the past decade traveling to Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park to document the way of life of the Waorani people; the result is his project “Spill,” which, notes The Washington Post, examines how the Waorani “have been living under the thumb of an exploitative oil industry.” In 2023, notes Jacome, Ecuadorians approved a referendum to halt oil drilling in the national park, sending “a clear message that the people reject the country’s dependence on oil revenues and hope for a different model for growth and development.”
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