The Guardian Monday October 13, 2025
Before a federal judge blocked Donald Trump from putting members of California’s national guard on the streets of Portland, Oregon, the state’s Republican party welcomed the planned deployment in posts on social media, illustrated with an image showing unbridled protests against immigration sweeps in Portland. However, notes The Guardian, the image was not a photograph of a real event in Portland, but instead a fabrication created by combining two photographs of scenes that unfolded in South America nearly a decade apart.
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Design Boom Monday October 13, 2025
Suzanne Jongmans bridges centuries of image-making in her work, currently on view at Dordts Patriciërshuis in Dordrecht, Netherlands. Jongmans’ photographs, eerily reminiscent of Renaissance and Baroque paintings, confront visitors with an unexpected tension, as beneath their luminous serenity lies a fabric of plastic, foam, and bubble wrap, notes Design Boom. “Existential dualities, love and loss, transience and eternity, youth and maturity, form the emotional thread through her practice,” adds DB. Read the full Story >>
TechCrunch Monday October 13, 2025
The race is on: We noted recently that Google’s Gemini AI app had knocked OpenAI’s ChatGPT off the top spot on Apple’s App Store. Now, reports TechCrunch, OpenAI’s Ai video generator Sora has become the number-one app. OpenAI estimates Sora’s iOS app pulled in a total of 164,000 installs during its first two days, September 30 and October 1—this despite the fact that it is invite-only for now and limited to users in the U.S. and Canada at launch. Sora allows users to generate short-form AI videos, remix videos created by other users and post them to a shared feed, adds CNBC.
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Spotlight Awards Monday October 13, 2025
Photographer Todd Antony is the winner of the Grand Prize of the 2025 Spotlight Awards, which celebrate commercial photography across 15 categories. Antony also won the Sports category for his images of Central Asia’s historic sport buzkashi. “[It] is often compared to polo—but with hundreds of riders, no teams, and a headless goat instead of a ball,” Antony notes. The Spotlight Awards come from commercial photography directory Production Paradise. See also: My Modern Met.
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