The Eastman Kodak Company, a brand as big in its heyday as Apple or Google today, has become a cautionary tale for companies slow to adapt to change. But, noted The New York Times recently, Kodak is having a moment again, mostly overseas, through trademark licensing agreements with manufacturers and retailers of a wide range of products. The company's logo is being slapped on … Read the full Story >>
Photography once had rules that separated the pros from the amateurs—hard-won principles developed over more than a century of image-making. But in less than two decades, platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Pinterest have obliterated them entirely, notes Fstoppers, which looks at five of the photographic rules that have gone by the wayside, from the rule of thirds to proper exposure and the death of photographic realism. Read the full Story >>
London-based photographer Riya Panwar doesn’t merely document nature; she collaborates with it. “Creating shadowy printed scenes on plants and fruit, Riya questions the relationship between human creation and natural creation, using thought-provoking photographic processes to bake experiences of her life onto nature,” notes It’s Nice That. “I am part of that nature, just as you are,” says Panwar. “There is a symbiotic interdependence that must be acknowledged.” Read the full Story >>
In the old photo studios of Lagos, Nigeria, negatives were being burned because they were no longer needed or wanted and were too difficult to store. In many cases, notes CNN, the subjects of the images had moved on or died, and the photo labs that printed them had long since shuttered. In response, British Nigerian artist Karl Ohiri and his partner Riikka Kassinen launched Lagos Studio Archives to save the collections. For the past nine years, they've been hunting down studios and photographers, cataloging archives, and creating exhibitions of images capturing life in Lagos from the 1960s to the early 2000s. Read the full Story >>
