Euromaidan Press Tuesday April 15, 2025
World Press Photo has announced it will no longer invite Mikhail Tereshchenko to the award ceremony for winners of its 2025 photojournalism contest. Tereshchenko’s photo of protests in Georgia won an award in the Europe section of the competition, however, notes Euromaindan Press, Georgian photographers expressed anger over the recognition of a photographer from a Russian state-controlled news agency, TASS. As we noted previously, Ukrainian photographers also condemned the award for Tereshchenko. See World Press Photo’s statement.
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DP Review Tuesday April 15, 2025
Nikon's newly announced 2.0 firmware update for the full-frame Zf adds a dedicated bird mode to the camera's subject recognition autofocus, support for connecting to the company's Imaging Cloud service and other improvements that, notes DP Review, will make shooting video and using older, manual-focus lenses more convenient. The bird subject detection mode will be quicker and more accurate at detecting and tracking birds than the Auto or Animal modes, especially in complex scenarios like shooting in forests or mountains, says Nikon.
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David Schonauer Tuesday April 15, 2025
If you entered media or image-making in the '90s -- magazine publishing, newspaper journalism, photography, graphic design, advertising, music, film, TV -- there's a good chance that you are now doing
something else for work, noted The New York Times recently. That, explained Times cultural-trends reporter Steven Kurutz, is because those industries have shrunk or transformed themselves radically,
shutting out those whose skills were … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Monday April 14, 2025
Now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the exhibition "The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910" is an illuminating look at American history. Featuring more than 250
photographs from the Museum's William L. Schaeffer Collection, the exhibition includes work by lauded artists such as Josiah Johnson Hawes, John Moran, Carleton Watkins, and Alice Austen, alongside
photographs by obscure or unknown … Read the full Story >>
