CBC Thursday February 6, 2025
Several Toronto-area brides are speaking out on social media to warn others about a wedding photographer they say ghosted them before delivering photos and videos of their special day. Among them, notes the CBC, is Melissa Akeju, who says she paid photographer Emaul Spencer over $5,000 for a photo and video package to be delivered within 12 weeks of her wedding reception. Once the 12-week deadline was up, she started to contact him regularly but says she never got an update.
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i-D Thursday February 6, 2025
Photographer Skyler Dahan fell in love with Senegal after a 2023 trip to the country’s capital, Dakar. Back at home in Paris, Dahan dug deeper into Senegal’s history and traditions, including folk wrestling, the country’s national sport. Last December Dahan was on hand to photograph wrestlers as they prepared for a tournament. “I wasn’t necessarily looking for the best or strongest fighters,” Dahan says. “Just the ones with a story to tell and dreams to catch.” iD calls his images “kinetic” and “mesmerizing.”
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PetaPixel Thursday February 6, 2025
Instagram users may have noticed that their profile grid is now displaying their photos in rectangle format rather than square. For some photographers, notes PetaPixel, the change has wreaked havoc with their carefully curated profile. One analog photographer took to Reddit to complain “my nice square-frame aspect ratio that I set to make my 6×6 and 35mm look nice in preview is now all for nothing.” When the platform began testing the change last summer, IG head Adam Mosseri noted, “The vast majority of what is uploaded to Instagram today is vertical. It’s either 4 by 3 in a photo or 9 by 16 in a video, and cropping it down to square is pretty brutal.”
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The Guardian Thursday February 6, 2025
Who’s afraid of artificial intelligence? Probably all of us are a little – but, notes The Guardian, the artists at the center of this year’s Photo Brussels festival (through Feb. 23) have embraced the technology. The ambitious program gathers together 17 projects that, adds TG, “reveal the visual and intellectual potential, along with the current limits, of this wave of 'promptography.'” Among them: Artist Pascal Sgro’s images of a fictional 1950s-era airline—work that prompts reflection on progress and aspiration, and the paradox of the environmental cost of lifestyle.
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