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Insight: Martin Parr's Rules for Emerging Photographers

WePresent   Thursday August 29, 2024

What makes an image compelling? For acclaimed British documentary photographer Martin Parr, that is the essential question that needs to be asked when taking pictures, notes WePresent from WeTransfer, which features a “manifesto” in which Parr explains 10 rules for emerging photographers. Among the rules: 1. Look and learn from other photographers; 2. Identify what makes you like their pictures; 3. Find a subject you feel strongly about; 4. Select the images you like and understand why they are interesting; and 5. Do more like that.   Read the full Story >>

In Focus: In India, Female Bodybuilding Reshapes Perceptions

British Journal of Photography   Thursday August 29, 2024

Earlier this year, London-baed South Indian photographer Keerthana Kunnath was researching female Kalari artists – an Indian martial art that originated in Kerala during the 11th century CE – when she uncovered a world of female bodybuilders in the region. The result, notes the British Journal of Photography, is her project” Not What You Saw,” an exploration of unconventional femininity. “While we often encounter women in roles such as doctors, nurses, teachers, or the occasional police officers, the presence of a female bodybuilder is unprecedented,” she says.   Read the full Story >>

Tech News: Adobe Lightroom Gets Frame.io Cloud-to-Camera Collaboration

Digital Camera World   Thursday August 29, 2024

Adobe bought Frame.io in 2021, when the cloud-based service was best known as a collaborative  video-editing tool. But it has increasingly been used as a photo-editing collaboration tool, too. Now, notes Digital Camera World, the company is launching Frame.io Version 4, which will allow users of Adobe Lightroom to store images in their Lightroom library as they shoot and allow them to collaborate over the cloud with someone, say, who is editing the images they are shooting at a wedding.   Read the full Story >>

Spotlight: A Tribute to Summers Everywhere

By David Schonauer   Thursday August 29, 2024

As summer comes to a close, we contemplate visions of the season from photographers around the world, past and present. Earlier this month we spotlighted the exhibition "Summer Glow" at New York's Bruce Silverstein gallery, which featured artists like Aaron Siskind, Chester Higgens and Lisette Model interpreting the unique light of summer. Meanwhile, Artnet Auctions's "Endless Summer" sale, now over, featured work by Cindy …   Read the full Story >>

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