What We Learned This Week: A Realistic View of Parenting During Lockdown
Have you been spending lockdown time with kids? "It's been six weeks since we were locked into a small house with our boys. So much of our career in the last few years has been focused on traveling with the kids and documenting adventures with them. Now, the adventure was at home." So note visual storytelling team Ben Lowy and Marvi Lacar, whose ... Read the full Story >>
Agenda: Photo L.A. Will Be Streaming June 27 - June 28
Photo L.A. is moving online. The venerable photography art fair will be streaming online from June 27 to 28. “We've reimagined the traditional fair space to digitally connect galleries and private dealers, collectors, photographers and enthusiasts from around the globe,” note the event’s organizers. “No longer confined to four walls, our virtual photo fair will play host to over forty exhibitors via interactive, 3D booths accessed via the Whova app and on the photo l.a. website. Read the full Story >>
Dept of Ideas: Reimagining Peoples' Pandemic Dreams
Have you found that you’ve been dreaming more intensely during the Covid-19 lockdown? Inspired by her own vivid dreaming, Kiev, Ukraine-based photographer Oksana Parafeniuk asked people to share dreams they’ve had during quarantine and then created a series of multiple-exposure images to bring those dreams to life, notes The Washington Post. “We can’t control what we dream. Maybe that’s why dreams can come with such potency in times like these, when we feel so powerless,” adds The Post. Read the full Story >>
Tech News: Nikon's New Z50 Kit for Vloggers
Nikon has unveiled a “Creators Kit” built around the APS-C mirrorless Nikon Z50, which includes the camera, a lens, a microphone, a JOBY GorillaPod, and more. The kit was designed for anyone who wants to get started making “share-worthy videos.” Nikon isn’t known as the camera-of-choice for most vloggers and other video hobbyists, noted PetaPixel, but the company is hoping that this kit and a new marketing campaign aimed at streamers will help to shift this perception and get people streaming video using their Nikon camera. Read the full Story >>