CNN Monday July 14, 2025
Anthropologist Regula Tschumi’s 20-plus years of documenting the unique funeral traditions of the Ga people of southeast Ghana has resulted in a PhD on the subject, multiple academic volumes, and now, notes CNN an eye-opening photography book, Buried in Style: Artistic Coffins and Funerary Culture in Ghana. The focus on the funerals are elaborate coffins made with literal intent: For example, a footballer who dreamed of moving to the United States was buried in football boot-shaped coffin, painted in the stars and stripes of the US flag.
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ARTnews Monday July 14, 2025
Photographer Nan Goldin has again publicly addressed Israel’s war in Gaza, this time during a talk given at the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival in France. Goldin, the recipient of this year’s Kering’s Women in Motion award, spoke during a discussion with novelist Édouard Louis, who read a statement about the conflict alongside her. “We say this is horrible, and we think this is enough,” Louis said. “But this is not enough.” He went on to add: “Our own field has betrayed us.” In a video of the talk posted to Instagram by Louis, one audience member can be heard shouting at Goldin as she speaks, notes Art News.
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Hasselblad Foundation Monday July 14, 2025
The 2025 Hasselblad Foundation Photobook Grant—an annual grant supporting the production and publication of photographic book projects—goes to Ting Bang Tsai of Taiwan for his project, “Glamorous Aunt JIN YUN,” an “intimate and vulnerable collaboration” between the young male photographer and a 72-year-old woman. Pawe Starzec of Poland also wins for his landscape project “Makeshift,” which investigates the aftereffects of conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War.
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PetaPixel Monday July 14, 2025
Creative Commons, the nonprofit organization known for its open licenses that enable people to share and reuse content, has launched a new framework that allows data holders — including photographers — to specify how their content can or cannot be reused by machines, such as in the training of AI models. The nonprofit says the new tool, called CC Signals, will offer a limited set of clear options for reuse, with an emphasis on transparency and ethical practice, notes PetaPixel.
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