AnOther Thursday July 11, 2024
It’s easy to misrepresent a place as secretive as North Korea, but, notes AnOther, with his new book North Korea: The People’s Paradise, photographer Tariq Zaidi transcends cliches that typically portray the country as a cult-like dystopia and instead offers “a rich, vivid and humane portrait.” Shot between 2017 and 2018, the book’s photographs span the diverse breadth of the country, from the austere, monumental capital city of Pyongyang to verdant mountainous regions.
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Digital Camera World Thursday July 11, 2024
“A photographer has opened up an old debate surrounding the lengths it's acceptable to go to get the perfect shot, especially when it comes to nature,” notes Digital Camera World: Welsh photographer John Paul Haffield, 68, has been fined £1,600 ($2,000) after being found guilty of disturbing one of the U.K.’s rarest birds. Haffield allegedly disturbed a nest containing breeding pair of honey buzzards—the only recorded nest in Wales. He was found guilty of violating the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. According to the court, Haffield visited nest sites of protected birds throughout Wales, taking photographs of them, their young, and their eggs, then selling the photographs on his website.
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David Schonauer Thursday July 11, 2024
How will the world know what's real and what's not in the AI future? More AI technology might be the answer: Researchers from the Multimedia and Information Security Lab in Drexel's College of
Engineering say they have developed an AI algorithm that can spot a deepfake video with 98-percent accuracy. In a recent paper, the researchers explained how they trained a new machine learning … Read the full Story >>
The Guardian Wednesday July 10, 2024
When the late Rudolf Kicken founded a photo gallery in Aachen, Germany, in 1974, appreciation of photography as an art form was rare, notes The Guardian. Major German photographic museums were years away from opening, while in the UK, the National Portrait Gallery had only just appointed its first curator of photography. In the US, the Metropolitan Museum of Art would not establish a department of photographs until 1992. The Kicken Gallery, which moved to Cologne in 1979, and to Berlin in 1999, helped change the course of the medium.
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