Join a Projections event on April 9 (virtually, via ZOOM) featuring photographers Meryl Meisler and Robin Schwartz. Meisler will present and discuss work made throughout her career, from her images of New York City nightlife to 1970s suburbia. Schwartz will discuss her images of animals: “Photography and animals are my passports to each other," she says. Time: 7:00 ET. Read the full Story >>
Yasin Akgul, an Agence France-Presse photojournalist who was arrested last week after covering the huge protests rocking his native Turkey, said after his release that the profession is under threat in the country. Akgul condemned President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's push "to make it impossible" to bring images of the protests to the world. Meanwhile, the Committee to Protect Journalists called on Argentinian authorities to … Read the full Story >>
President Donald Trump’s newly announced “liberation tariffs” would if enacted increase the cost of camera products imported from Japan in the United States by 24 percent, notes PetaPixel. Products from China would get hit with a 34-percent tariff. To this point, Japan had remained out of Trump’s trade war sights but the recent supposed partnership between it, South Korea, and China seems to have invoked his ire, adds PP. Japan has denied any such discussion of a partnership took place, while South Korean officials said China’s public announcement of an alliance was “somewhat exaggerated.” Read the full Story >>
Since ChatGPT’s new AI image generator went live recently, social media feeds have been flooded with AI-generated photos reproduced in the style of Studio Ghibli, the cult-favorite Japanese animation studio behind blockbuster films such as My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away. But there are copyright concerns: A lawyer tells TechCrunch it’s plausible that OpenAI achieved achieved the ability to accurately create Studio Ghibli artwork by training its model on millions of frames from Ghibli’s films. Read the full Story >>
