drone life Wednesday June 26, 2024
A potential ban on DJI drones has moved a step closer to becoming law after the US House of Representatives passed the Countering CCP Drone Act. The act a was bundled into the 2025 National Defense Authorization bill, which narrowly passed by a margin of 217:199, notes Drone Life. The Countering CCP Drones Act, which was initially introduced last April by Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY), is a “a de-facto DJI drone ban in the United States,” notes No Film School. Gallagher and Stefanik have argued that DJI, a Chinese company, poses a national security threat, adds PetaPixel.
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David Schonauer Wednesday June 26, 2024
In May, we spotlighted work from photographer Constanze Han, who spent a month in 2022 driving down the highway connecting the Taiwan's capital, Taipei, with 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 … Read the full Story >>
Projections Tuesday June 25, 2024
Get ready for the Paris Olympics at a Projections event on June 26 featuring photographer Mark Edward Harris, who will present his sports imagery from past Olympics (and more). New York City-based Chinese-American photographer Kyle Lui will talk about his series “Sowing Rice with Salt,” which explores how immigration effects the relationship between generations. Time: 7:00 pm, EDT. Where: via Zoom. Read the full Story >>
New Lines Magazine Tuesday June 25, 2024
On October 1907, the African-American sociologist and civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois received a photograph that he later described as “the most illuminating thing I have ever seen.” The photo had bent sent to him by the Anti-Imperialist League, an activist group then campaigning against the U.S. occupation of the Philippines. Taken on the morning of March 8, 1906, the photo, notes New Lines Magazine, showed the aftermath of a U.S. military atrocity on Bud Dajo, an extinct volcano on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines.
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