PetaPixel Wednesday March 4, 2026
The Boston Globe won multiple photography awards in the 2026 Best of Photojournalism competition from National Press Photographers Association, but, notes PetaPixel, one was especially poignant. Globe Picture Editor Lloyd Young — who was killed last summer when he was struck by a vehicle while bicycling in Illinois — won two national awards announced on February 25. Young was awarded second place in the Picture Editor of the Year category, as well as third place in the Best Newspaper Front Page category. Read the full Story >>
PhotoVogue Wednesday March 4, 2026
The 10th edition of the PhotoVogue Festival is underway through March 4 at the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense in Milan, during the city’s fashion week. “This year, we return to the first theme we explored, the female gaze, reframing it for contemporary times by asking what does it mean to see as a woman, going beyond the binaries of the male gaze and simplistic categorization,” notes the festivals. The event’s central show, “Women by Women,” also confronts the growing fragility of women’s rights, notes The Guardian. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Wednesday March 4, 2026
AI image detectors are notoriously imperfect, giving an estimated score rather than concrete answers. But a new tool called Image Whisperer may have an advantage, notes PetaPixel: It acts like a human researcher to check if a picture has been debunked elsewhere. While Image Whisperer v1.0 uses “multiple AI-detection models” to analyze images, it will also run a reverse image search to identify whether the image has been debunked or verified elsewhere. The multi-layer detection system also uses “four different AI models” to examine an image for visual anomalies humans would notice. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Wednesday March 4, 2026
James Van Der Zee and Garrett Bradley were born nearly one hundred years apart. What unites them a deft capacity to make visual hymns of Black life with their cameras, without overdetermining the
lyric of that living. So, noted Aperture recently, it's fitting that Van Der Zee's "The Harlem Book of the Dead"--first published in 1978 and out of print for nearly fifty years--sees … Read the full Story >>
