The New York Times Friday March 27, 2026
Carol Kitman, a New York photographer whose chance encounter with twin immigrant brothers in Brooklyn led to a decades-long project documenting their lives, tracking them through bar mitzvahs, weddings, military careers and, during the first Trump administration, the political scandal that made Alexander and Eugene Vindman household names, died on March 3 in the Bronx. She was 96, notes The New York Times. The Vindmans served on the National Security Council during the first Trump administration and in 2020 testified about President Trump’s pressure on Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to investigate Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden. Read the full Story >>
The Guardian Friday March 27, 2026
Ukrainian photographer Arthur Bondar had been living in Moscow for over a decade, but in 2023, following Russia’s invasion of his homeland, he fled, leaving his own photographic archive behind in safe-keeping, but smuggling out a huge collection of pictures made during World War II that he had amassed over the years. He only buys negatives – taken by either amateur or professional photographers everywhere from the Soviet Union to the United States – to ensure he is getting the most unadulterated images of the war, notes The Guardian. Read the full Story >>
engadget Friday March 27, 2026
Instagram has long limited users' ability to share links, restricting link-sharing to Stories, Reels and user profiles. But that might now be changing: The company has started to test clickable links inside of post captions for subscribers to Meta Verified. The new feature has long been requested by creators, but the test is also the latest way that Meta has experimented with making link-sharing a paid feature, notes Engadget: Meta Verified for creators starts at $14.99 a month, with the most expensive plans costing $499.99 a month. Read the full Story >>
Aperture Friday March 27, 2026
“I’m glad that when wars are driven by political power, we can still keep a dialogue through art,” Iranian photographer Hashem Shakeri tells Aperture, which spotlights his series on the drought-stricken Balochistan region in the far southeast of Iran. The drying lakes and wetlands of the area have pushed the local population far below the poverty line. Shakeri describes his photographic world as melancholic, populated by “human beings who, after relentless exploitation of nature, now find themselves defeated by it.” Read the full Story >>
