CNN Friday June 27, 2025
Created in 2018 by Forestry England, the UK’s Royal Geographic Society and visual arts consultancy Parker Harris, the Earth Photo competition showcases issues affecting life on our planet, notes CNN, which features winners of the contest’s 2025 edition. The top prize goes to photographer Lorenzo Poli for his image of the open-pit Chuquicamata copper mine in Chile. The photo “shows the vastness” of the mine and “the marks we make on the natural world,” notes the competition.
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Nieman Lab Friday June 27, 2025
In the olden days, journalists came in two major subspecies: print and broadcast. But that has changed, thanks to the demands (and opportunities) of social media, notes Nieman Lab, which spotlights a new iPhone app named Sophiana, which targets journalists — along with academics, authors, and others who need to make the leap from prose to vertical video. It was developed by Smith Galer, who, while working for outlets like the BBC and Vice, has made a name for herself online through social video, with 550,000 followers on TikTok and 325,000 on Instagram.
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THE ART NEWSPAPER Friday June 27, 2025
The Art Gallery of Ontario has acquired 210 photographs by the late photographer Peter Hujar, best known for his black-and-white portraits of figures from New York’s downtown arts scene in the 1970s and 1980s. The acquisitions come as the gallery’s photography department prepares to celebrate its 25th anniversary with the exhibition “Collective Visions: Celebrating 25 Years of Photography (opening Nov. 7) Hujar has been slow in receiving widespread recognition, but that has been changing, notes The Art Newspaper.
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David Schonauer Friday June 27, 2025
Vicki Goldberg, an influential photography critic and the author of a lauded 1986 biography of Life magazine photographer Margaret Bourke-White, died on May 29 in Manhattan, reported the New York
Times. She was 88. Though she was trained as an art historian, Goldberg began writing about photography in the 1970s, when the medium was having a renaissance. She wrote for The Times and other … Read the full Story >>
