BBC Tuesday October 14, 2025
A 29-year-old man was recently arrested on suspicion of starting the Pacific Palisades fire in Los Angeles that killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,000 homes in January. Now the BBC reports that evidence collected from Jonathan Rinderknecht's digital devices included an image he generated on ChatGPT depicting a burning city,. Rinderknecht was arrested in Florida and has been charged with destruction of property by means of fire. One of the most destructive blazes in LA history, the fire erupted on January 7 near a hiking trail that overlooked the wealthy coastal neighborhood.
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1839 Awards Tuesday October 14, 2025
The 1839 Awards has announced the winners of its International Photographer of the Year Contest, with the top prize going to portrait and fashion photographer Jaime Travezán for his series, “Dream,"shot as promotional material for the fashion designer Ade Bakare. Travezán, whose work has appeared in magazines such as i-D, Elle, and Vogue, as well as in newspapers worldwide, began his career as a photojournalist in his native Peru, before relocating to London in 1985. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Tuesday October 14, 2025
The National Press Photographers Association has expressed concerns about how a sweeping drone ban in Chicago may violate First Amendment rights. The Federal Aviation Administration, acting at the request of the Department of Homeland Security, imposed drone ban over Chicago—the largest drone flight restrictions ever imposed in the United States. Spanning a 15-nautical-mile radius and covering more than 935 square miles, the restriction, bars unmanned aircraft systems from operating up to 400 feet above ground level throughout downtown Chicago, notes PetaPixel. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday October 14, 2025
MTV went on the air for the first time on August 1, 1981, introducing itself with a video for the song "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles. Four years after that seminal cultural moment,
photographer Jamie Morgan and fashion stylist Ray Petri further defined the 80s as we know it today - authentic youth culture, edgy attitude, androgyny, and the dawn of … Read the full Story >>
