BBC Monday December 2, 2024
Liz Hatton, a teenage photographer who inspired Catherine, Princess of Wales, after pursuing a photography bucket list while facing a rare form of cancer, died on Nov. 27 at age 17, notes the BBC. Hatton began a photography bucket list appeal in January after being diagnosed with an aggressive desmoplastic small round cell tumor and was given between six months and three years to live. She was invited to photograph a Windsor Castle investiture in October, where the Princess of Wales, who herself was treated for cancer this year, was pictured hugging her. See also: The Guardian.
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The New York Times Monday December 2, 2024
A National Geographic assignment to document the increasingly global nature of the world’s food supply as the overall population nears 10 billion has become a decade-long obsession for photographer George Steinmetz, notes The New York Times. With the release of his new book Feed the Planet, Steinmetz, known best for aerial shots taken from hang gliders, took a Times reporter along with him to Pennsylvania’s Amish country to see him at work. But now he’s swapped the hang glider for a drone.
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ARTnews Monday December 2, 2024
Anonymous Was A Woman, the annual award program founded by photographer Susan Unterberg to support female artists above the age of 40, has announced the recipients of its 2024 grants. The cash prize has been doubled, with $50,000 now awarded each year to 15 artists. Among them: Erica Baum, 63, an America artist at the boundary of photography and poetry. The grants, titled after a line in Virginia Woolf’s feminist essay A Room of One’s Own, are not need-based, but rather awarded at “critical junctions in the artists’ careers,” notes Art News.
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International Landscape Photographer of the Year Monday December 2, 2024
Canadian photographer Andrew Mielzynski is the top winner of the 11th International Landscape Photographer of the Year competition for a portfolio of four images, including several photographs of winter scenes and another made in Argentina’s Atacama Desert. Judges praised Mielzynski’s “patience, perseverance and determination,.” Last year “he was a very close runner-up in these awards, so to be awarded first prize this year is a testament to the standard of his work,” noted chief judge Peter Eastway.
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