World Press Photo Thursday March 27, 2025
World Press Photo has announced the winners of its 2025 World Press Photo Contest, showcasing a selection of the world’s best photojournalism and documentary photography. In 2021 World Press Photo adopted a regional contest model to support a greater diversity of photographers. The 42 awarded photographs for this year’s contest were selected from 59,320 entries from, 3,778 photographers from 141 countries. The Photo of the Year award and two finalists, chosen from the winning images, will be announced on April 17. Read the full Story >>
The Phoblographer Thursday March 27, 2025
Every notice how much better celebrity portraits are at IMDb, as compared to those on Wikipedia? A group of photographers known as WikiPortraits is trying to fix that, notes The Phoblographer. They started their work at SXSW 2024 festival, backed by a $5,000 grant from the Wikimedia Foundation: The group set up a makeshift studio on location and shot professional portraits of around 300 attendees, then followed up by shooting at the Cannes, Venice, Sundance, and Toronto film festivals.
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DIYPhotography Thursday March 27, 2025
With its newly released GFX100RF, Fujifilm is blending high-end medium format photography with easy portability, notes DiY Photography: The first fixed-lens GFX model, it pairs a 102MP medium-format sensor with a built-in 35mm f/4 lens (28mm full-frame equivalent) in a compact, rangefinder-style body. Fujifilm says the GFX100RF is aimed at travel, street, and documentary shooters. Conceptually, adds PC Mag, the new camera is similar to the Fujifilm X100VI, which combines a smaller (APS-C) sensor with a fixed lens.
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Columbia Journalism Review Thursday March 27, 2025
Two of the past three issues of a new fashion publication, Boy Brother Friend, have opened on the subject of war. Kk Obi, the founder, and Matthew Benson, the editorial director, tells the Columbia Journalism Review there is no way around this tension when the magazine’s subject is the African continent and its diaspora. The publication's recent Sudan issue includes fashion staples—a model with a striking gaze, an artist swathed in the latest designs—along with a photo of life in Sudan before wartime.
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