CNN Friday December 6, 2024
A Syrian photographer working for the German press agency DPA has been killed in an airstrike in the Hama countryside, where the government forces of Bashar al-Assad are involved in fierce fighting with an advancing rebel opposition group. DPA said photographer Anas Alkharboutli was killed while accompanying and reporting on the advance of the rebel alliance. The northern countryside of Hama is the site of fierce fighting between government troops and a rebel coalition whose recent taking of Aleppo, the country’s second-biggest city, has reignited the country’s long-running civil war, notes CNN.
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David Schonauer Friday December 6, 2024
This week we took note of new developments in state-of-the-art video: TechCrunch reported that a group appears to have leaked access to Sora, OpenAI's video generator, in protest of what it's calling
duplicity and "art washing" by Open AI. TC also noted that Indian-based video-editing platform Invideo is launching an AI-powered video-creation feature that lets you use prompts to generate video
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DP Review Thursday December 5, 2024
The resurgence of analog photography is hitting shimmering new heights: Retrospekt, a company known for refurbishing and reselling classic consumer electronic devices, has announced a limited run of 24-karat gold-plated Rollei 35 film cameras called the Retrospekt 24K Gold Edition. Initially launched at Photokina in 1966, the Rollei 35 is one of the most famous compact film cameras ever made, notes DP Review. Retrospekt's gold-plated cameras include a Zeiss Tessar, Rollei Tessar or Schneider Kreuznach Xenar 40mm F3.5 lens. It's is a way to declare both your affluence and your love of film, for a mere $999.
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British Journal of Photography Thursday December 5, 2024
New York City is full of unsung heroes, and photographer Sirui Ma pays tribute to some of them—the subway conductors most New Yorkers glimpse only fleetingly from crowded platforms. “I really love talking to strangers and hearing different people’s stories,” she shares. “A lot of my work is highlighting and championing the everyday hero,” the Beijing-born, London-based photographer tells the British Journal of Photography. The work is collected in Ma’s debut book, titled simply Subway Portraits. See Gothamist for more.
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