NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Tuesday December 3, 2024
Photographer and National Geographic Explorer Thomas P. Peschak will receive the National Geographic Society’s 2025 Eliza Scidmore Award for Outstanding Storytelling for his long legacy of conservation storytelling. The award — named for the writer and photographer Eliza Scidmore, the first woman elected to the Society’s Board of Trustees in 1892 — “recognizes individuals whose work focuses on immersive storytelling to advance our understanding of the environmental and conservation issues we face,” notes the NGS.
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We Present Tuesday December 3, 2024
For the last five years, photographers and longtime life partners Carolyn Drake and Andres Gonzalez have traversed the border between Mexico and the United States, working together for the first time on a project that We Present calls “a complex yet tender rumination on the human connection, migration and the mechanics of photography itself.” The project, titled “I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,” began, says Gonzalez, when he and Drake “began seeing children getting separated from their parents at the border.”
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Heni News Tuesday December 3, 2024
A print of William Eggleston’s photo “Untitled, 1971-1974” sold for $1.44 million, more than twice the low estimate, at Christie's in New York on November 21. That represents a new record for the artist, beating his previous auction record by $419,000, a 40 percent rise, notes Heni News. The photograph, which shows a cocktail on an airplane, comes from Eggleston’s Los Alamos series, adds PetaPixel. The pigment print, flush-mounted on board, was printed in 2012 and is work number one from an edition of two. It had been sold once before.
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Jessica Maddox Tuesday December 3, 2024
In October 2024, 21-year-old Shari Franke testified to Utah lawmakers about what being a child influencer against her will had done to her. "I come today as a victim of family vlogging," Shari said,
"to shed light on the ethical and monetary issues that come from being a child influencer." She added, "If I could go back and do it all again, I'd rather … Read the full Story >>
