PetaPixel Friday December 12, 2025
Rock-and-roll memorabilia collector Jeremy Wagner has been awarded $61,241 in damages after suing music photographer Ross Halfin for allegedly selling him four Lynyrd Skynyrd prints for more than $7,300 while claiming authorship of the images. Wagner, who collects rock memorabilia in Chicago, met Halfin, a U.K.-based photographer, at a dinner in Paris in 2017, where Halfin allegedly said he’d photographed the band. He later learned from an expert that the photographs were allegedly shot by a different, unidentified photographer. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday December 11, 2025
Martin Parr, the British documentary photographer who captured the peculiarities of the nation with clarity and hilarity, died on Dec. 6 at age 73, noted The Guardian. He had been diagnosed with
cancer in May 2021. Known for his acute observations of the English class system, Parr's images covered sunbathers and Conservative clubs, village fetes and coffee mornings, often in vivid color and
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404 Media Thursday December 11, 2025
It’s hard to believe it’s only been a few years since generative AI tools started flooding the internet with low quality content. Now, notes 404 Media, AI slop feels inescapable across the media and even news—that is, unless you’re using Slop Evader, a new browser tool that filters your web searches to include only results from before November 30, 2022 — the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.The tool is available for Firefox and Chrome, and has one simple function: Showing you the web as it was before the deluge of AI-generated garbage.
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LAVAZZA Thursday December 11, 2025
Over the years photographers including Annie Leibovitz and Helmut Newton have taken up the prestigious challenge of shooting calendars for coffee brand Lavazza. This year the job went to esteemed Magnum photographer Alex Webb. The 34th edition of the calendar, titled “Pleasure Makes Us Human,” is a “journey through a modern, elegant Italy, rich in flavors but deeply linked to tastes, places and traditions,” notes Lavazza. Webb shot the project in his inimitable style over just 12 to 13 days in July,
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