Associated Press Tuesday January 21, 2025
Balancing the need for safety with the risks of getting close to the wildfires devastating Los Angeles, photojournalists have also had to manage their emotions: Seeing unimaginable destruction and suffering is hard, and for some, LA is home, notes Associated Press, which features the words and images of a number of photographers working for the news service. “Having covered dozens of wildfires, some the largest in California’s history, I immediately knew the scale of destruction was unlike anything I’d seen before,” says Ethan Swope.
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CNN Tuesday January 21, 2025
TikToker angst has proved to be short-lived: Around 12 hours after shutting itself down in the United States, the app came back for many users almost like it never left, attributing its return to a move by Donald Trump to save the app. TikTok welcomed users back with a notification that said: “Thanks for your patience and support. As a result of President Trump’s efforts, TikTok is back in the U.S.!” Early on Sunday, Trump said he would issue an executive order following his inauguration on Monday to delay enforcement of the divest-or-ban law. But, notes CNN, securing the app’s long-term future in the U.S. is likely to be more complicated.
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David Schonauer Tuesday January 21, 2025
The photographer Weegee has been an object of fascination over the years--a cigar-chomping paparazzo armed with a Speed Graphic press camera whose images have nonetheless been celebrated by fine-art
curators around the world. Yet he remains an enigma, notes Clement Cheroux, director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris. The mystery is less about the man behind the pseudonym (Weegee's
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The Phoblographer Monday January 20, 2025
Perhaps more so than any other color, the color yellow can be presented as both a form of chaos and beauty: It’s a color of paradox that can be used to represent change, evolution, chaos, and beauty all at the same time, notes The Phoblographer, which looks at how photographers have used the color in their work. Yellow can add surreal elements to the scenes that bring non-traditional ideas to the front. It can also evoke nature’s beauty. What does a lemon mean to you—sourness or freshness?
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