PetaPixel Wednesday November 5, 2025
Sony has bolstered its commitment to content authenticity, extending its verification technology to video content recorded with select Sony cameras. It is the industry’s first C2PA-compliant camera-authentication solution for video, notes PetaPixel. Sony’s camera authenticity solution for video is now available for five cameras—the Sony a1 II, Sony a9 III, Sony FX3, Sony FX30, and Sony PXW-Z300—with more cameras to come. “For news organizations and broadcasters in particular, the importance of providing accurate and reliable information has increased,” Sony explains.
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David Schonauer Wednesday November 5, 2025
A first-generation American, visual artist Francesca Hummler says she "did not feel truly American" until she moved to England. Her idea for the Instagram profile "Apparently in America" was, she
notes, conceived in a pub and named after a phrase she heard repeated by locals, always finished by something shocking. "I was sometimes asked to verify the validity of these statements," she recalls.
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BBC Tuesday November 4, 2025
Paris-based historian Catriona Byers is an expert on the dark histories of 19th Century morgues. Her academic research is largely focused on urban death, policing, medicine, forensics, crime and photography from 19th Century to the present day. But she also moonlights by photographing restaurant pizzas and plates of delicately arranged veg for magazines and food promotions. “Working with food is fantastic because it is different from the subject of my research, which can be really harrowing and I get very emotionally involved in it," Byers tells the BBC.
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Pano Awards Tuesday November 4, 2025
Italian fine-art photographer Alex Wides (Alessandro Cantarelli) is the top winner of the 2025 Epson International Pano awards celebrating panoramic photography. Wides is known for his pioneering work in extreme panoramic landscapes. “Through years of experimentation and fieldwork, he developed a unique panoramic technique capable of merging multiple perspectives into a single immersive vision,” notes the contest. He wins $4,000 cash, Epson products valued at $5,500, and more.
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