CBS News Thursday August 15, 2024
Politico recently reported that California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office was paying photojournalist Charles Ommanney $200,000 a year to serve as its director of photography—a job for which he has captured Newsom's image in wildfire zones and encampment cleanups. The report raised eyebrows among California taxpayers, but now, notes CBS News, Newsom’s office is defending its hiring decision. "Unlike nearly all of his predecessors and gubernatorial counterparts, the real story here is that Governor Newsom did not have a dedicated photographer for over five years,” noted the office in a statement.
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The Guardian Thursday August 15, 2024
Since he first visited Chernobyl in 2002, the photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been back to the site about 25 times. Years before the plant’s Control Room No 4 – “The room that exploded” – was cleaned up for tourists, he was going inside, wearing a protective suit. “You are inside history,” he says. “In that place, the disaster started. The feeling was powerful.” The images in Mittica’s new book, Chernobyl, focus on human stories inside the exclusion zone around the site—an area covering approximately 2,600 square kilometers notes The Guardian.
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404 Media Thursday August 15, 2024
Nvidia scraped videos from Youtube and several other sources to compile training data for its AI products, internal Slack chats, emails, and documents obtained by 404 Media show. Nvidia defended its practice as being “in full compliance with the letter and the spirit of copyright law.” But internal conversations at Nvidia show that when employees working on the project raised questions about potential legal issues surrounding the use of datasets compiled by academics for research purposes and YouTube videos, managers told them they had clearance to use that content from the highest levels of the company.
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David Schonauer Thursday August 15, 2024
Inflation is shrinking the American wedding: Guest lists are dwindling, cakes are getting smaller, and bridal shops are stocking simpler, shorter dresses. The impact of that trend on photographers is
already becoming apparent: The pandemic-era spending spree is over. Four years of inflation have raised the costs for catering, florals, photography and cakes by more than 20 percent, forcing couples
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