The New York Times Thursday April 16, 2026
Nathan Farb, a photographer whose career took him from downtown Manhattan during the summer of 1967, when he captured scenes of the counterculture, to a city in Siberia, where he created stark portraits of Russians, and then to the Adirondack Mountains of New York, where he trekked to remote locations to shoot painterly landscapes, died on March 26 at his home in Jay, a town in Adirondack Park. He was 85, notes The New York Times. “The camera satisfied so many needs for me: the need to be with people, the need to connect to people, the need to express myself,” Farb said in a 2004 documentary film about his work. Read the full Story >>
AnOther Thursday April 16, 2026
In March, Nepal held its first election since a Gen Z revolution in September turned the Himalayan nation into what The New York Times called “a surprise symbol of youthful power.” Now AnOther spotlights the work of British-Nepalese photographer Tirtha Rabin Lawati, who returned to Nepal with stylist Sam Thapa to document the country’s changing youth culture. “I was very conscious of working from a diasporic perspective,” Thapa says. “I wanted to restrain myself from building my own narrative.” Read the full Story >>
INTERESTING ENGINEERING Thursday April 16, 2026
AI video generation is entering a new phase, one where speed may matter just as much as realism. At NVIDIA GTC 2026, researchers from NVIDIA and Runway demonstrated a system capable of generating HD video with a time-to-first-frame of under 100 milliseconds. Traditional AI video models, whether from Runway, OpenAI, or Google, typically take seconds (or longer) to generate clips. This new approach, notes Interesting Engineering, pushes video generation into real-time, meaning visuals can appear almost instantly after a prompt or input is provided. Read the full Story >>
Joseph Bellows Gallery Thursday April 16, 2026
In 2007, Michael Kenna visited the Chiesa di Santo Stefano, an ancient Romanesque Roman Catholic church in Reggio Emilia, Italy, where he created a series of photographs that initiated a focused, contemplative body of work on confessionals. He kept returning to the church, and the confessionals, though 2016, and now his series is on view at the Joseph Bellows Gallery in La Jolla, CA. "These confessional images symbolize what I keep looking for: the invisible through the visible, the intangible contained in the tangible, the illusion of reality,” notes Kenna. Read the full Story >>
