The Guardian Wednesday June 26, 2024
Once, a lone photographer might be seen taking pictures of a wedding, but now, notes The Guardian, videographers and ‘content creators’ are also invited to document the big day, and the clergy in the UK have had enough. Earlier this year, Rachel Roberts, a wedding photographer, complained that vicars were making their jobs harder by restricting the type of photographs they could take in church. Roberts launched a petition to highlight the problem she was having with vicars, but not much has changed, she says.
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artnet Wednesday June 26, 2024
With the 2024 UEFA European Football Championship underway in Germany, photographer Michael von Hassel is tackling a new project, notes Artnet. Von Hassel’s work usually focuses on the fringes of society, but his new series features images of empty European football fields—or soccer stadiums, if you like. “I try to show places that we all know, that we may have grown up in, that we visit weekend after weekend but in a completely different way, just like you’ve never seen your own football stadium before,” he says.
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Aperture Wednesday June 26, 2024
Among other stories in his new memoir, This is My Life I’m Talking About, acclaimed photographer Danny Lyon described the making of his landmark book The Bikeriders, first published in 1968 and reissued by Aperture in 2014. The work is the inspiration behind a new Jeff Nichols film starring Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Jodie Comer and Mike Faist as Lyon. “The Bikeriders was meant to be a popular book. It was originally in softback….it wasn’t meant to be an art book,” Lyon told Aperture recently.
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Kolari Vision Wednesday June 26, 2024
April 8th, 2024 saw the last total solar eclipse over North America for this decade, and in honor of the celestial event lens-filter maker Kolari Vision launched its first Solar Eclipse Photo Contest. (Besides celebrating photographic talent, the contest aimed to educate photographers on safe eclipse capture, notes DIY Photography.) The top prize goes to Ryan Spangenberg for his image of a plane in the totality’s path. But you will be astounded and most likely inspired by all the winning photos.
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