Aftershoot Monday February 24, 2025
Do you have an idea for a photography event? If so, there’s a new financial resource you might want to know about: Aftershoot, a maker of AI-driven image culling and editing software, has set aside $1 million for its Create Together Fund, which will fund 750 photography events taking place before the end of 2025 with the goal of strengthening collaboration and creativity across the photography industry. This is the second year that Aftershoot has run this initiative, notes Fstoppers: In 2024, the Create Together Fund supported photography events in four countries with the participation of more than 600 photographers.
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Design Boom Monday February 24, 2025
German artist Thomas Wrede’s Glacier Project explores the intersection of staged and natural environments, addressing themes of landscape transformation and human influence, notes Design Boom. The work includes large-scale panoramas and interior views of glacier caves that examine the practice of covering glaciers with fleece to slow ice melt, documenting the resulting textures and material contrasts. Wren’s exhibition “Weiss War Der Schnee" (White Was the Snow) is on view at Bernhard Knaus Fine Art in Frankfurt, Germany, until April 19.
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British Journal of Photography Monday February 24, 2025
Beyond the headlines and political discourse, there exists a rich and complex cultural landscape in Iraq – one that Italian photographer Savino Carbone set out to document, notes the British Journal of Photography. Exploring the deep-rooted traditions of Iraq’s Shia communities, he reveals how religious narratives shape both personal identity and political movements. “I avoided contexts where violence could be exerted, and I chose not to impose it aesthetically either,” Carbone tells the BJP.
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The New York Times Monday February 24, 2025
The Associated Press sued top White House officials on Friday, accusing them of violating the First and Fifth Amendments by denying AP journalists access to press events in retaliation for references to the Gulf of Mexico in its articles. In the complaint, notes The New York Times, AP said that the White House had ordered it to use certain words in its reporting and that it was suing “to vindicate its rights to the editorial independence guaranteed by the United States Constitution.” Meanwhile, dozens of major news organizations, including some conservative outlets like FOX News,, urged the Trump administration to drop its AP ban.
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