New York Historical Friday January 31, 2025
“My mother used to say ‘Arlene—just don’t wander!’ Then I started wandering, but I got a camera because it gave it a little more meaning...a life of wandering is really what it all is.” So noted Arlene Gottfried, whose images of New Yorkers, notes The Guardian, have grown in esteem since her death from breast cancer in 2017. New York Historical acquired some 300 of her images taken during the last decades of the 20th century and now has 30 of her prints on view in the exhibition “Picture Stories: Photographs by Arlene Gottfried,” through May 25.
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DP Review Friday January 31, 2025
When Fujifilm announced that it was releasing a firmware update to help improve the X-H2 and GFX 100 II's autofocus performance in October, the community's response, notes DP Review, was near-unanimous: What about the poor autofocus performance of the X-T5, the company’s APS-C flagship. Now Fujifilm has released firmware updates for not only the X-T5, but also the GFX 100S II, X-T50, X-S20 and X100VI, promising that its "AF algorithm has been partially revised to improve focusing accuracy and subject tracking performance.”
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Travel Photographer of the Year Friday January 31, 2025
American photographer Piper Mackay is the top prize winner of the 2024 Travel Photographer of the Year competition for a portfolio of infrared portraits and landscapes made at Kenya’s Maasai Mara Natural Reserve. Mackay, who lives in Kenya and has had her work featured in publications including National Geographic Traveler, Outdoor Photographer and Nature Photographer, has been exploring Africa since 2004. Her images, made with little retouching, demonstrated “good camera craft and in-camera creativity,” noted judges.
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PetaPixel Friday January 31, 2025
Israeli artificial intelligence company Botika recently secured $8 million in seed funding to help it further develop its generative AI technology, which, notes PetaPixel, will eliminate models and photographers from fashion image-making. Clothing designers and retailers can capture images of their products, upload them to Botika, and then select an AI-generated model and background to create new “real world” product photos. The company says it can help companies reduce “visual production costs” by 90% and improve time to market by a factor of three.
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