Dear Dave, Wednesday February 26, 2025
If you’re looking for news and ideas about photography exhibitions around the country, you can find both at Dear Dave, magazine’s new online reviews section. This month the site features half a dozen essays from some leading thinkers on the medium, including Travis Diehl on Jimmy DeSana at CLAMP Gallery, New York; Jessica Shearer on Robert Frank at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Will Fenstermaker on 'Digital Witness' at LACMA, Los Angeles; Eric Miles on John Divola at Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York; Alexis Clements on Alice Proujansky at Baxter Street, New York; and Lyle Rexer on Boris Mikhailov at Marian Goodman, New York.
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Mashable Tuesday February 25, 2025
It's about to get easier to add AI-generated video into your short-form posts. YouTube has announced that Shorts will integrate Veo 2 — Google DeepMind’s newest video mode — which will allow users to generate and add AI clips into their videos, notes Mashable. The new feature will be a part of Shorts' Dream Screen, which already lets users add AI-generated backgrounds to their posts. In an announcement, YouTube said that Veo 2 better "understands real-world physics and human movement," which should result in more detailed and accurate results.
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Images Publishing Tuesday February 25, 2025
Photographer (and PPD reader) Jon Ortner has explored topics ranging from the architecture of Manhattan and the beauty of the human form to the the sacred places and people of Southeast Asia. His newest book, Visions of Paradise, is a tour of America’s wild places and national parks, from Yosemite and Yellowstone to Death Valley, Utah’s Canyonlands, and New York’s Hudson Valley. The book’s 200-plus black-and-white images reinterpret “the compelling beauty of many of his most cherished wilderness locations," notes Images Publishing.
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Reuters Tuesday February 25, 2025
An exhibition of black-and-white photographs of children purportedly killed in the Russia-Ukraine conflict that has appeared at German political protests is part of a propaganda campaign orchestrated by a network of people with links to the Russian state, according to an investigation by Reuters. The aim of the exhibition is to erode support for governments supplying weapons to Ukraine to defend itself against Russia,” notes the news service. Details of the Moscow-linked operation come as German intelligence officials have reported an increase in Russian-sponsored espionage and sabotage, adds Reuters.
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