Digital Camera World Wednesday January 22, 2025
Together with model Ciara Antowski and a team of safety experts, photographer Steven Haining has broken the Guinness Book of World Records for the deepest underwater photo shoot, notes Digital Camera World. Made at a depth of 163.38 feet (49.80 meters), the shoot (at a shipwreck near Boca Raton, Florida) bested the December 2023 record of 131 feet held by Kim Bruneau and Pia Oyarzun, as well as Haining’s own previous records. Working below 130 feet also meant adding safety measures to avoid decompression sickness, Haining explains.
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The New York Times Wednesday January 22, 2025
As the solar activity that causes the aurora borealis is expected to reach the peak of its 11-year cycle in the next year, opportunities to see it are booming via cruises, train trips and tours, notes The New York Times. But helping to spur astrotourism is digital photography technology: As many people have discovered in recent months, the subtle colors of the aurora borealis that the naked eye registers are captured much more vividly by modern cameras, including smartphone cameras. The Times turned to experts to explain why.
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International Center of Photography Wednesday January 22, 2025
Drawing from works by more than 40 photographers in the ICP collection, with the addition of exhibition prints from contemporary photographers, the exhibition “American Job: 1940-2011” (Jan. 23 - May 5) explores the photographic response to labor organizing and strike activity, race and gender discrimination in labor, and the intersection of labor and the social changes wrought by the economic restructurings of the twentieth century. Images by Cornell Capa, Ken Light, Danny Lyon and Susan Meiselas, among others, are included.
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Reuters Wednesday January 22, 2025
President Donald Trump on Monday revoked a 2023 executive order signed by Joe Biden that sought to reduce the risks that artificial intelligence poses to consumers, workers and national security. Biden's order required developers of AI systems that pose risks to U.S. national security, the economy, public health or safety to share the results of safety tests with the U.S. government, in line with the Defense Production Act, before they were released to the public, notes Reuters. Trump and other Republican lawmakers have framed AI deregulation as a win for free speech and economic vitality, adds PetaPixel.
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