THE VERGE Friday November 14, 2025
Creator-monetization platform Patreon is becoming more akin to a social media feed, notes The Verge: The site is adding a suite of new features including one called Quips—small text, photo, or video posts that are public by default and open for anyone to comment on. The idea is that the Tweet-like posts will entice would-be subscribers by offering them a sneak peek at paid content. Content creators will be able to collaborate on posts so that both groups of fans see them, similar to features on platforms like Instagram and TikTok.
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Eye of Photography Friday November 14, 2025
Having previously worked solely in black and white, South African artist Roger Ballen began exploring color after receiving a Leica SL camera as a gift in 2016. The shift allowed Ballen to re-examine his images’ relationships to light, depth, texture and form. Now collected in the book Spirits and Spaces, the work, notes Eye of Photography, “eloquently captures the bizarre world” of Ballen, “where animals and Art Brut-like drawings dominate, and humanity is reduced to obscure figures or fragmented body parts.”
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Nikon Rumors Friday November 14, 2025
After an unusually severe summer sales slump, camera and lens shipments rebounded in September. The figures offer hope that 2025 may prove to be an even better year for the photo industry than 2024 despite global economic challenges and the impact of tariffs, notes PetaPixel. For the first nine months of 2025, DSLR sales were down 26% in units and 31% in shipped value. Mirrorless units were up 13% in units and 4% in shipped value. Compacts are up 22% in units and 47% in shipped value, notes Nikon Rumors, citing data from Japan’s Camera & Imaging Products Association. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Friday November 14, 2025
At 93, the famed fine-art photographer Duane Michals is still making news. As we noted this week, Michals has shot one of the season's standout ad campaigns, working with actor Jacob Elordi (the
sympathetic monster in director Guillermo del Toro's Netflix hit "Frankenstein") for fashion line Bottega Veneta. The campaign, which features a series of photographs and a video, is titled "What Are
Dreams," … Read the full Story >>
