France 24 Monday September 8, 2025
A photo that made it seem as though Donald Trump's face had changed, sparking rumors about his health, was "enhanced" with AI. Using a photo of Trump taken by Getty Images photographer Andrew Caballero-Reynoldson on Sept. 1, X user Christopher Webb modified the grainy image, most likely with an AI upscaling tool, to better distinguish Trump's features, notes France 24. In Webb’s enhanced photo, Trump’s forehead appeared to have a deformity and his right eye appeared almost closed.
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Deadline Monday September 8, 2025
Netflix has acquired director Bao Nguyen’s The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo, the documentary film that stirred a hornet’s nest by challenging the authorship of one of the most famous images ever taken of the Vietnam War. The Pulitzer Prize-winning photo has long been credited to AP photographer Nick Ut, but the film says it was really a local stringer, Nguyn Thành Ngh, who took it. Ut has steadfastly maintained he took the photo, notes Deadline. the AP has said there is no evidence showing he did not do so.
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South Australian Museum Monday September 8, 2025
The winners of the 2025 Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year competition have been announced. Produced by the South Australian Museum, the contest, now in its 22nd edition, drew 1,864 images from 449 photographers in 18 countries. Top prize goes to Ross Gudgeon for his image “Fractal Forest,” an inside-out view of a cauliflower soft coral that, notes the contest, “skews perception and leaves us questioning reality.” The Guardian features the competition’s winning photos.
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DIYPhotography Monday September 8, 2025
Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba has launched its own open-source image editing tool, Qwen-Image-Edit, built on its Qwen-Image model. The tool supports both Chinese and English prompts and offers unique text rendering capabilities to image editing tasks, enabling precise text editing, notes DIY Photography. Qwen-Image-Edit performs two types of editing: semantic and appearance. Semantic editing, adds DIYP, allows you to change the meaning or concept of an image—rotating objects, creating new IP, or applying style transfers.
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