ABC News Friday November 21, 2025
A wildlife photographer out on a whale watching trip in waters off Seattle captured video and photos of a pod of killer whales hunting a lucky (or smart) seal that survived by clambering onto the stern of her boat. The photograpaher, Charvet Drucker, was on a rented 20-foot boat near her home on an island in the Salish Sea about 40 miles northwest of Seattle when she spotted a pod of at least eight killer whales, also known as orcas. ““I’m definitely Team Orca, all day, every day. But once that seal was on the boat, I kind of turned (into) Team Seal,” Drucker tells ABC News.
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British Journal of Photography Friday November 21, 2025
In Baghdad, a group of women is leading a shift in Iraqi photography, filling a gap left by a lack of institutional support in the region, notes the British Journal of Photography. Founded in 2024, the group, called Iraqi Female Photographers (IFP), is a grassroots collective “bringing together women photographers working in street, journalistic and documentary photography,” says IFP founder Forqan Salam. Their work addresses systemic sexism and a lack of women’s stories from a photography community often steeped in patriarchy, adds the BJP.
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ADWEEK Friday November 21, 2025
QR codes are so yesterday—now we are entering the era of scannable images, notes Adweek, which recently talked with Matty Beckerman, founder and CEO of IRCODE, about the company’s technology letting consumers scan any image to engage directly with branded content. The technology fingerprints each image and stores its metadata, building on drone image-recognition research from a decade ago. “Think of us like Shazam for image recognition,” Beckerman notes. Read the full Story >>
Metropolitan Museum of Art Friday November 21, 2025
Can a photograph open a portal to other worlds? The Metropolitan Museum of Art thinks its exhibition “Time Travelers: Photographs from the Gayle Greenhill Collection” just may. The exhibition, on view through Feb. 2, 2026, presents a selection of works offering entry into a moment in photography’s history. “These objects transport viewers across geographic and temporal distances, or into spaces constructed entirely within the boundaries of a photographic print,” notes the museum. Go here for 10 examples.
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