When the South African photographer Lindokuhle Sobekwa was six years old, his half-sister Ziyanda disappeared. No one in the family knew where she was until, in 2013, Lindo's mother discovered that she was living in a hostel not far from the family's shack in Thokoza, a township east of Johannesburg. She was very ill, and there were scars on her back. She later died. … Read the full Story >>
A 60-year-old man from upstate New York has been arrested by state police after he downed his neighbor’s drone with a shotgun. Joseph H. Dishaw of Ogdensburg, NY, was charged with menacing in the second degree and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon. “An investigation determined Dishaw became angry when his neighbor started flying a drone over his property. Dishaw used a shotgun to shoot down the drone in the direction of the victim in a threatening manner,” said police. While the regulations for flying a drone over private property vary from state to state, federal law makes it illegal to shoot down a drone even if it is trespassing, notes DroneDJ. Read the full Story >>
Summer reading promises discovery, adventure and pleasure, notes AnOther, which has spotlighted seven must-see photography books for the season. They include Juergen Teller’s The Myth, which, notes the blog, “takes up the ol’ legs-in-the-air fertility trick-slash-myth," documenting the photographer’s wife in a series of nude performances at the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni on Lake Como; and Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, Volume IIby Zanele Muholi, a “manifesto on Black beauty and brilliance.” Read the full Story >>
YouTube has rolled out a policy change that will allow people to request the takedown of AI-generated or other synthetic content that simulates their face or voice, reports TechCrunch. Instead of requesting the content be taken down for being misleading, as with a deepfake, YouTube wants affected parties to request the content’s removal directly as a privacy violation. Submitting a request is not a guarantee of removal, however, adds Futurism: YouTube’s stated criteria leaves room for considerable ambiguity. Read the full Story >>
