Amateur Photographer Tuesday January 14, 2025
Ahead of the United Kingdom’s general elections last year, portrait photographer Harry Borden received an assignment from The Guardian to photograph the likely winner, Labour party leader Keir Starmer. “I was given just five minutes and 27 seconds, but I managed to get a fair degree of variation in the pictures,” Borden explains at Amateur Photographer. In the end, he combined two of shots of Starmer in Photoshop, and the image was chosen as the cover for The Guardian Saturday magazine.
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Financial Times Tuesday January 14, 2025
Meta plans to add displays to its Ray-Ban smart glasses, as the tech giant accelerates its plans to build lightweight headsets that can usurp the smartphone as consumers’ main computing device. The updated Ray-Bans could be released as early as the second half of 2025, reports the Financial Times. The small display would be likely to be used to show notifications or responses from Meta’s virtual assistant. The move comes as Apple, Google and Snap also race to develop their own similar products.
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British Journal of Photography Tuesday January 14, 2025
During her career, Iraqi photographer Abdul Hadi has lived and worked across the Arab region, shooting for Reuters, The New York Times, and other publications. She visited Iraq numerous times before 2003; after the US invasion she first went back in 2011, then again in 2018, when she travelled to Iraq’s southern marshes for the first time. She continued to work in area, notes the British Journal of Photography, “to critically re-engage with both its images and the ways in which colonial imaginations inflect photography.”
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ARTnews Tuesday January 14, 2025
After several Sally Mann photographs were removed from a show at Texas’s Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth amid controversy, the institution has responded, noting in a brief statement that the seized images “have been widely published and exhibited for more than 30 years in leading cultural institutions across the country and around the world.” The National Coalition Against Censorship issued a statement condemning the police seizure, notes Art News. The Mann photographs were removedfrom a group exhibition after some locals and politicians claimed that these images were “child porn.”
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