Creative Boom Thursday June 12, 2025
The traditional markers of success in the creative industries are a high-ranking, well-paid job at a prestigious agency, probably based in London or New York. Right? Not really, notes Creative Boom, which put the questions to a number of creatives via Linkedin and its networking platform. “When you actually ask creative professionals in 2025 what success means to them, you get a wide range of responses that are all very different from those cliched achievements,” notes CB.
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Los Angeles Times Thursday June 12, 2025
For some couples, running off to get married is also an opportunity to recreate Spider-Man’s famous upside-down kiss, while perched over a sheer canyon wall in Utah’s Dead Horse Point State Park. And couples like that, notes the LA Times, can turn to a new breed of elopement adventure photographers. The photo genre was pioneered a decade ago by Maddie Mae, a wedding photographer who’d grown disillusioned with traditional weddings. It took off when the pandemic upended many traditional weddings. Read the full Story >>
Kraszna-Krausz Thursday June 12, 2025
In May we presented the longlist for the 2025 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards, the prestigious UK award for photography books. Now the organization has revealed this year’s three shortlisted titles: Outside the Binary by Linda Bournane Engelberth (Journal); Tee A. Corinne: A forest fire between us edited by Charlotte Flint (MACK); and The Dog Sat Where We Parted by Mahmoud Khattab (Self-published). The winner of the £10,000 prize (to be shared with the winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award) will be announced later in June.
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Columbia Journalism Review Wednesday June 11, 2025
In the1990s, alt-weeklies were practically printing money. Then, in the early aughts, Craigslist appeared, and revenue from classified ads vanished. As the larger print news industry suffered losses from digital media, the great recession of 2008, and the 2020 pandemic, so too did the alts. The Village Voice, the first and most famous alternative weekly newspaper, met its demise in September 2017. To survive, alt-weeklies have had to evolve. And in many cases, notes the Columbia Journalism Review, they have.
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