In 2014, when she was pregnant with her first child, people would come up to Olivia Arthur on the street and, unannounced, touch her belly -- almost as if her body had suddenly become public property. "I had never thought that much about my body before. And now I'm not even sure it is really mine. It has become a machine, doing this incredible … Read the full Story >>
In 2016, the Society of Architectural Historians substantiated that collections totaling more than 1.2 million photographic slides amassed by 20th-century scholars, preservationists, design practitioners and photographers are at risk of loss and destruction. The result, notes DP Review, was the organization’s ongoing Color Film Emergency Project (CFEP). It’s an immense effort led by the University of California Riverside. “There is an incredible amount of time invested in researching the subject content of each image to produce accurate, granular, and highly structured embedded metadata so that the digitized images can be accessed online,” says project director Sonja Sekely-Rowland. Read the full Story >>
Venice has become the global poster child for over-tourism, with an estimated 30 million visitors descending on the floating city each year, swamping the population of under 50,000. But, notes CNN, in his new book Venezia. Memorie e Tracce (Venice. Memories and Traces), the acclaimed photographer Michael Kenna presents a place where “humanity lives to the rhythm of nature and centuries-old sites sit peacefully alone.” The book features 120 black-and-white photos by Kenna, taken during his regular visits over the past four decades. Read the full Story >>
A record 124 journalists and media workers were killed in 2024—the most in any year since the Committee to Protect Journalists began keeping records in 1992. The Israeli military accounted for 85 of the 124 deaths, and, notes the Press Gazette, the CPJ believes that in ten cases there is evidence journalists were deliberately targeted by Israeli fighters. The previous deadliest year for journalists was 2007, when 113 deaths were recorded by the CPJ. The CPJ’s database lists 102 journalists and media workers killed in 2023. Read the full Story >>
