MY MODERN MET Thursday December 12, 2024
Photographer Vilhelm Gunnarsson, who works for the Icelandic newspaper Visir, has covered every volcanic eruption that on the island since 2000. Most recently, notes My Modern Met, this meant racing to document a nearly two-mile lava fissure that opened up in the Sundhnúka crater. Gunnarsson's press access allowed him to get close to the action in November when the lava engulfed a parking lot near the iconic Blue Lagoon, one of Iceland’s most visited tourist spots.
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The Royal Society Thursday December 12, 2024
An aerial image showing young sharks hunting has been named the winner of the 2024 Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition. Photographer Angela Albi, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Germany, was aided by drone pilot August Paul in capturing the dynamics between four juvenile blacktip reef sharks and a school of hardyhead silversides in the shallow waters of the Maldives. “I use drones to capture behavior from above, focusing on whether the sharks coordinate during their hunts,” says Albi.
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AnOther Thursday December 12, 2024
It was 1977 when Mike Mandel and the late Larry Sultan first released their book Evidence, which featured spreads of vernacular images sifted from the archives of different government agencies, corporate head offices and research institutes in California. A cult favorite, Evidence became one of the most influential photo books ever; now, with the publication in print half a century after its initial publication, AnOther talks with Mandel about how he and Sultan “reshaped our understanding of photography forever.”
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David Schonauer Thursday December 12, 2024
Venezuelan photographer Adriana Loureiro Fernandez is the recipient of the $30,000 W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for her project "Paraiso Perdido," or "Paradise Lost," which she
calls "an ongoing visual chronicle of Venezuela's collapse." Her project was among 584 entries submitted from 75 countries. "I hope these stories can shed light on what is at stake -how it feels to
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