Projections Monday April 14, 2025
Starting tonight at 7:00 pm ET, and continuing through Thursday, Projections will be featuring presentations by photojournalists covering the war in Ukraine: Madeleine Kelly; Federico Quintana; Ira Lupu; Christopher Occhione; Michael Robinson Chavez; Diego Fedele; and Elena Volkon and Edward Mathews. Their work, note Projections' organizers, stands as a testament to the courage of photojournalists who have documented the conflict and Russian war crimes.
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The Phoblographer Monday April 14, 2025
“I am literally trying to find everything under the sun to bring hidden beauty to people,” says photographer Yogendra Joshi. Among his most captivating subjects, notes The Photoblographer, are human tears, which he photographs using a Canon DSLR and an Olympus CX21i microscope with a custom adapter. The tears come from his daughter. “Thankfully, we could do it the less dramatic way, by looking at a fan and not really making her cry,” he explains.
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Digital Camera World Monday April 14, 2025
Embedding social media posts has become a widespread practice and a critical tool for all sorts of websites. But now, notes Digital Camera World, a photographer is asking the US Supreme Court to consider whether embedding social media content is a violation of copyright. The photographer, Elliot McGucken, filed a petition for certiorari (a request to review) on March 28 as part of his lawsuit against media company Valnet, Inc. which operates the website thetravel.com.
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The New York Times Monday April 14, 2025
A daguerreotype made by Samuel F.B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, will go up for auction at Christie’s next month and, notes The New York Times, it may sell for as much as $60,000. Morse was an early adopter of the daguerreotype process—he learned it from its inventor, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, while in Paris in 1839 to promote the telegraph—and later briefly operated a portrait studio in New York. The Morse photo on sale comes from collectors Lynn and Yann Maillet, who began amassing daguerreotypes in the late 1960s.
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