HIPA Tuesday November 18, 2025
Italian photographer Gianluca Gianferrari is the grand prize winner of the 2025 Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA), taking home $200,000. Gianferrari won for his photo “Etna's Paroxysm,” which shows and eruption of Sicily's Mount Etna volcano. The total prize pot of the international competition is $1 million, making it the world’s richest photo contest, notes Digital Camera World. Judges decided his photo best fit the competition’s 2025 theme, “Power.”
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Projections Tuesday November 18, 2025
Spend your evening tomorrow with photographer Stephen Goss, who will be presenting his project “Those That Stayed: The People of Post-Republic Afghanistan” at a new Projections event. Says Goss: “This project was fully approved by the Taliban government. I work with local guides, health with intelligence services almost daily, and got a warning or two from religious police.” His portraits of the wealthy and poor, former Afghan army members and Taliban fighters, suicide bombers and more were made using a mobile studio setup. When: Nov. 19 at 7:00 ET. Where: via Zoom.
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David Schonauer Tuesday November 18, 2025
George Eastman has been called "the father of the snapshot" for bringing photography to the masses with his compact Kodak camera in 1888. But more than a decade earlier, a Connecticut-born inventor
devised ingenious hand-held cameras that he used to record daily life on the streets of New York. As early as 1870, before dry plates were commercially available, George Bradford Brainerd, a civil … Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Monday November 17, 2025
In Hollywood, commercial advertising has long been overshadowed by the far more glamorous film and television work. Yet for decades, crew members have counted on commercial production shoots either as their sole source of income or as a way to pay the bills between lulls in film and television production. But, notes The New York Times, just like television and film shoots, commercial production in Los Angeles has plummeted. Production in the third quarter of this year was 18 percent lower than last year.
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