NewScientist Monday November 17, 2025
Domesticated for centuries, cats have been bred to match our own aesthetic tastes and whims, and yet they remain gloriously themselves, both “revered and reviled in equal measure throughout history,” notes New Scientist, which spotlights photographer Tim Flach’s new book Feline, which features more than 170 images, along with neuroscientist Morten Kringelbach take on why we find felines so compelling. “At the heart of this project was to unmask the essence of feline,” says Flach. Read the full Story >>
The Guardian Monday November 17, 2025
The artist Anish Kapoor is considering taking legal action after border patrol agents posed for a photo in front of his Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago, saying the scene represented “fascist America.” The agents reportedly posed for the photo after immigration enforcement raids in a Chicago neighborhood that is home to many Mexican Americans. One of the agents reportedly called out for his colleagues, in place of “cheese,” to say “Little Village,” referring to a neighborhood, notes Art News. Kapoor previously took legal action against the National Rifle Association after it used an image of Cloud Gate, also known as “the Bean.”
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Aperture Monday November 17, 2025
The winners of the 2025 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards were announced on Nov. 14 at the French art fair. The First PhotoBook Award goes to A Study on Waitressing by Eleonora Agostini, an “interrogation of the roles that women are asked to play within the regime of self-presentation in the labor market.” The PhotoBook of the Year award goes to The Classroomby Hicham Benohoud, a Moroccan school teacher who transformed his classroom into a joyful photo studio. This year’s competition received over 1,000 books from 55 countries.
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PetaPixel Monday November 17, 2025
Adobe has added several new AI-powered features to Lightroom Classic that may have you re-thinking what artificial intelligence means for photographers, notes PetaPixel. A new AI culling feature that was teased earlier this year “feels like a major boon for wedding and event photographers,” declares PP. “The AI is trained largely for portraits and people (sorry, landscape photographers) and it’s designed to weed out the shots with blinking eyes, the out-of-focus subjects, and exposure errors,” adds Digital Camera World.
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