Decades come and go, and then often come back again. Thus it is with the 1980s, an era that seems to be circling around the modern zeitgeist. We recently spotlighted "The 1980s: Image of a Decade," a new book by writer and photographer Henry Carroll. Now a massive exhibition at London's Tate Britain looks back at the decade in the UK--and at a pivotal … Read the full Story >>
Taking pictures in public is legal, until it isn’t, notes Digital Camera World: Police in Manchester, England, recently announced that they’d taken into custody a 27-year-old suspected of voyeurism and harassment, noting that the arrest is “thought to be the first in the country linked with several viral videos on social media platforms appearing to have filmed on nights out, some whilst in vulnerable positions.” The case is “a very new and complex issue,” Chief Inspector Stephen Wiggins said in a press release. “Filming in public is legal, however where this filming crosses the line into offenses such as upskirting, stalking, or harassment, it’s important that we don’t allow that behavior.” Read the full Story >>
In 2020, software engineer Vishnu Mohandas quit Google when he learned that the tech giant had briefly helped the US military develop AI to study drone footage. He also stopped backing up all of his images to Google Photos, fearing his content could be used to train AI systems, even if they weren’t specifically ones tied to the Pentagon project. Now, notes Wired, Mohandas has developed a website called They See Your Photos that shows users what Google’s AI models can glean from studying their images. Read the full Story >>
Photographer Anastasia Samoylova moved to Florida in 2016, where she was struck by the state’s severe weather events and aging infrastructure. She immediately began to document her new surroundings in a project called “Flood Zone.” Almost eight years on, the project, featured in major 2024 exhibitions at Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and at London’ s Saatchi Gallery, “feels more relevant than ever in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton, the Category 3 storm that killed more than a dozen,” notes CNN. Read the full Story >>
