People Wednesday November 5, 2025
The son of Crocodile HunterSteve Irwin, Robert Irwin also wrangles wildlife and, notes People magazine, is known as a talented photographer. "I started doing that when I was very young," says Irwin, 21. As a photographer, he adds, the biggest hazard he faces are not poisonous snake, but thieves. He shares how his camera gear was nearly stolen while he was flying through Nairobi, Kenya—and how he confronted and stopped the would-be thief. “[T]his happens all the time. It happens everywhere, all around the world,” he says.
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Howard Greenberg Gallery Wednesday November 5, 2025
“Art and life are intertwined for me and my thoughts have often turned to the notion of beauty as understood in both Western and Japanese contexts,” notes Kenro Izu, who has spent 50 years photographing sacred spaces worldwide. During the COVID-19 lockdown, his focus shifted to nearby subjects—wildflowers and grasses arranged in clay vases made from locally sourced materials. The work in featured in the exhibition “Kenro Izu: Mono no Aware – The Beauty of Impermanence” at NYC’s Howard Greenberg Gallery through November 22.
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Nieman Lab Wednesday November 5, 2025
Last month, The Atlantic dropped the latest investigation in its ongoing series on generative AI training data sets. Staff writer Alex Reisner found that at least 15 million YouTube videos had been used for training data by major technology companies, either for research or, in some cases, to build AI video products. YouTube channels from major news publishers like the BBX, Vox, and The New York Times, as well as creators, were in video data sets used by Microsoft, Meta, Snap, Runway, and Bytedance, notes Nieman Lab.
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Aperture Wednesday November 5, 2025
“There is no work of art in our age so attentively viewed as the portrait photograph of oneself, one’s closest friends and relatives, one’s beloved,” wrote the art historian Alfred Lichtwark in 1907. Today’s young photographers, notes Paris-base writer and curator Christina Cacouris at Aperture, “predominantly cite Cindy Sherman, dressed up as different characters in her eerie and melancholic self-portraits, as their greatest inspiration.” The Photo Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, is now featuring the exhibition "Gen-Z: Shaping a New Gaze."
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