World Sports Photography Awards Wednesday January 15, 2025
Tahiti-based French photographer Jérôme Brouille’s viral image of a Brazilian surfer reacting after coming off the back of a big wave in round three of the men’s surfing competition at last summer’s Olympics is the top winner of the 2025 World Sports Photography Awards— which, notes The Guardian, are the only global awards for sport photography. More than 2,200 professional sports photographers from over 96 countries submitted more than 13,000 images across the 24 categories to this year’s competition.
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DP Review Wednesday January 15, 2025
If you have a Sandisk SD card in your Canon EOS R5 II, you may want to make sure it's compatible, notes DP Review: Canon recently warned that "certain SanDisk Extreme PRO SDXC UHS-II 64GB, 128GB and 256GB V60 cards" may cause still images taken with the camera to be "recorded as corrupted/abnormal.” The exact model number of the cards will vary by region, but Sandisk's support site lays out which cards are and aren't compatible with the EOS R5 II. Neither Canon nor Sandisk have said what makes these specific cards incompatible with the EOS R5 II.
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David Schonauer Wednesday January 15, 2025
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden signed the the EXPLORE Act (short for the Expanding Public Lands Outdoor Recreation Experiences Act), which, among other things, reforms existing rules that
restrict film and photography in national parks. Under the old standards, permits were mandatory and could be denied for various reasons that some detractors saw as inconsistent. Under the new rules,
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The New York Times Tuesday January 14, 2025
Oliviero Toscani, the Italian photographer and art director who masterminded memorable ad campaigns for the Benetton fashion line that used images of an AIDS patient and death row inmates, died on Monday, reports The New York Times. He was 82. His shock-and-awe campaigns in the 1980s and ’90s helped turn Benetton from a small Italian brand into a global fashion powerhouse. His career at Benetton came to an end in 2020 not because of his boundary-breaking ads, but because of an offhand comment he made in a radio interview about a bridge collapse in Italy in which more than 40 people died.
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