The New York Times Tuesday December 10, 2024
Australia has passed a law to prevent children under 16 from creating accounts on social media platforms, but how will it work? The law has broad support among Australians but has faced backlash from “an unlikely alliance of tech giants, human rights groups and social media experts,” rotes The New York Times. It requires social media platforms to take “reasonable steps” to verify the age of users and prohibit those under 16 from opening accounts, but does not yet specify which platforms the ban will cover. TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, Instagram and X are likely targets, notes the Australian government.
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Northern Lights Photographer of the Year Tuesday December 10, 2024
The seventh edition of the Northern Lights Photographer of the Year competition from travel and photography platform Capture the Atlas is perhaps its most dazzling yet—in part because of the talent of the photographers named as winners, but also because of solar conditions in 2024. “This year, as we reach the solar maximum of the current solar cycle, the Northern (and Southern) Lights have been more active than ever, gracing skies in unexpected places where they’ve rarely—if ever—been photographed,” notes CTA.
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CBS News Tuesday December 10, 2024
Seven years after photographer Ed French was killed during a robbery on San Francisco's Twin Peaks, two people convicted in his murder have been sentenced to life in prison, reports CBS News. As PPD noted previously, Fantasy Decuir, 27, and Lamonte Mims, 27, were found guilty in September of first-degree murder with special circumstances. According to testimony presented at trial, French, 71, went to the popular tourist spot with a Canon DSLR during the morning hours, and as he took photographs, Mims and Decuir approached him at gunpoint and attempted to take his camera bag. A struggle ensued in which French was killed.
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AnOther Tuesday December 10, 2024
An intimate and harrowing study of the transgressive lifestyle adopted by his own immediate circle of suburban teenagers, Larry Clark’s book Tulsa came as a shock to the system of picket-fence America when it was released in 1971. Fifty 50 years later, Tulsa is being revisited under a new title, Return, in a new book published by Stanley/Barker. “They wanted to do something with some of my older photographs that hadn’t been seen, so my assistant Zeljko and I selected a delicate and sensual collection,” Clark tells AnOther. Read the full Story >>
