People Monday June 16, 2025
In a post on Reddit's "Wedding Shaming" forum, a woman has detailed how one of the two photographers hired to photographer her sister’s wedding ended up photographing the wrong nuptials. "The problem was there was a second wedding party getting ready in the hotel at the same time that none of us knew about, which just so happened to be the people the photographer ran into," the post noted. "So, an entirely separate wedding party got photographed by mistake.” People magazine has the full story.
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Dive Photo Guide Monday June 16, 2025
Organized by the United Nations Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, DivePhotoGuide (DPG) and other groups, the United Nations World Oceans Day photography contest has announced the winners of its 12th edition. First place in the Wonder: Sustaining What Sustains Us category goes to Rachel Moore, who captured the eye of a humpback whale in waters off Mo’orea, French Polynesia. Four days after the picture was made, the whale, named Sweet Girl, was killed by a fast-moving ship.
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ARTnews Monday June 16, 2025
The Smithsonian Institution has released its first statement since President Donald Trump said he fired National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet, affirming that it is an “independent entity” that is not under Trump’s authority. Released on the Smithsonian’s website, the statement appears to confirm what has been happening in practice, notes Art News: The Washington Post reported recently that Sajet was continuing to work at the National Portrait Gallery despite Trump’s supposed firing. See our earlier report.
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Bonhams Monday June 16, 2025
The only known photographs of mathematician and early computer programmer Ada Lovelace are up for auction at Bonhams' Fine Books, Maps & Manuscripts online sale through June 19. The lot includes two daguerreotype portraits by Antoine Claudet (1797-1867), a former pupil of Louis Daguerre, notes Fine Books & Collections. Claudet's images of were taken aorund 1843, when Lovelace, who was interested in photography, published a pioneering paper describing what is often regarded as the the first computer program, Read the full Story >>
