HYPERALLERGIC Wednesday July 24, 2024
There is still time to see the exhibition “Don’t we touch each other just to prove we are still here?” The touching show, which includes photography and film from 13 artists, continues at Art on Hulfish in Princeton, New Jersey, through August 4. Named after a verse in one of Ocean Vuong’s poems, the work on view “centers the myriad ways touch shapes the human experience, ranging from the possessive love of a mother holding her child to the violent and coercive touch that sometimes takes place between strangers,” notes Hyperallergic.
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BBC Wednesday July 24, 2024
Conall Kearney, a conflict photographer based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, first visited Ukraine in 2018 and "instantly fell in love” with the country. When war broke out five years later, he tells the BBC NI, it was a "no brainer" to go back. In May, he was embedded with a Ukrainian military unit on what was intended to be a simple reconnaissance mission along the frontline and survived a Russian ambush, but not without sustaining numerous injuries. The Ukrainians were outnumbered and running out of ammunition. "I accepted I was dead," recalls Kearney.
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British Journal of Photography Wednesday July 24, 2024
As we noted recently, the esteemed German photographer Thomas Hoepker died on July 10 at age 88. Perhaps best known for his controversial image of five young people lounging on the Brooklyn waterfront as smoke engulfed Manhattan on 9/11, Hoepker spent over six decades traveling the globe, capturing everything from Korean War veterans to the smallpox epidemic in 1960s Bihar. “His visual testimonies were sincere, but at times also tragicomic,” notes the British Journal of Photography in an appreciation of his work.
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THE VERGE Wednesday July 24, 2024
We noted earlier this year that Fengyun Shi, a Chinese citizen and graduate student at the University of Minnesota, was arrested after a drone he was flying got stuck in a tree in Newport News, Virginia. Investigators discovered that Shi had photographed Navy vessels at multiple shipyards in Virginia. Now The Verge reports that Shi has pleaded guilty to crimes under the Espionage Act. The case appears to be a first-of-its kind prosecution by the Department of Justice, adds TV.
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