Early in the 20th century, Albert Kahn, a French banker and philanthropist, saw a world on the verge of vast change, He financed a team of photographers and filmmakers to document humanity around the globe, to "fix once and for all, the look, practices, and modes of human activity whose fatal disappearance is just a question of time." By the time he died in … Read the full Story >>
Instagram was once a joyful place for photographers who wanted to share images in real-time. But now, notes The Phoblographer, more and more photographers are turning to Flickr—an older social platform where algorithms don’t rule the day. “Flickr is that one platform where chronological feed allows users to follow those who don’t optimize posts for visibility,” nots TP, adding that Flickr is also a friendly place focused on nurturing the imaging community. By contrast, Meta-owned Instagram may be moving in another direction. Read the full Story >>
In 1983 photographer David Hurn met one of his photographic heroes, André Kertész, and jokingly suggested that, when he reached Kertész’s age of 89, he would remake his seminal volume, On Reading. True to his word, the Magnum photographer has now done so. Wherever Hurn traveled as a photojournalist, he took images of people reading books, magazines and, lately, on mobile phones. “One of the things that happens in every country in the world is people read,” he tells The Guardian. But, he wonders, will people read books on paper in the future? Read the full Story >>
Five men, including Beni Oren, a 24-year-old who runs a glamping business, had been meditating near Skull Rock in the hills above Pacific Palisades on the morning of Jan. 7, when they smelled smoke. They were the first people to spot LA’s deadly Palisades fire in its earliest stages, but what started as a frightening moment turned into what Oren said was a longer-term nightmare after he posted his video of the experience on social media, notes the Los Angeles Times. People on the internet began casting suspicion on the men as the cause of the fire. Read the full Story >>
