Wales Online Friday October 17, 2025
A photographer has successfully brought legal action against a woman who assaulted him after demanding that he delete photos showing a child participating at a public event. British press photographer Dimitris Legakis, owner of the Athena Picture Agency, filed a private prosecution against his assailant after what he described as “months of inaction” by local police, notes PetaPixel. According to Wales Online, Legakis was photographing the annual Three Counties Bloodhounds hunt in Swansea, South Wales last December when the incident occurred.
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The Guardian Friday October 17, 2025
The image long known, mistakenly, as The Last Jew in Vinnitsa was for decades shrouded in mystery: Taken in modern-day Ukraine, it shows a bespectacled Nazi soldier aiming a pistol at the head of a man kneeling before a pit full of corpses. US-based German historian Jürgen Matthäus has spent years researching the photograph, and now, notes The Guardian, he is confident he has identified the killer. Legwork and AI image analysis led him to a man named Jakobus Onnen, who was himself killed in 1943. Read the full Story >>
TechCrunch Friday October 17, 2025
Video editing app VSCO is adding a set of new AI image editing tools, support for high-resolution RAW files, non-destructive edits, and content-aware region detection, notes TechCrunch. The AI tools will be housed in a new tab called “AI Labs,” which also brings AI-powered object removal similar to Google and Apple’s homegrown offerings. You can highlight or draw a circle around an object in a picture, and VSCO will replace it with what it thinks matches the background. The company said it uses “intelligent area detection” to blend the background in after an object is removed without affecting the resolution or color.
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The Guardian Friday October 17, 2025
In the film Annie Hall, actress Diane Keaton’s titular character dabbles in photography. As with many aspects of her character (her style, for example), a love of photography was cribbed from the real-life Keaton, who died on Oct. 11, notes The Guardian. In the 1970s, Keaton shot a series of classic American hotel interiors for Rolling Stone. These pictures formed the basis of the monograph Reservations, her first book, published by Knopf in 1980. “I’m addicted to photographs and photography books,” she told the Hollywood Reporter in 2023.
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