In honor of #pride, here's a collection devoted to LGBTQIA+ photographers and photography, from radical early projects (like the secret studio run by Norwegian photographers Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg) to the "queer new wave" rising today.
"For many LGBTQ, non-binary and gender-fluid artists, photography remains a charged cultural and political tool, a way to document a past and present, while guaranteeing a future." — Ananda Pellerin, @CNN
Saturday is World Wet Plate Day. Do we have any collodion/tintype photographers out there?
Flipboard’s premier curator on this topic, @mhaustria, made a collection to celebrate his favorite holiday. It includes a story about a DIY camera he built to capture ghosts and a list of collodion photographers you should know.
French photographer Juliette Pavy is the overall winner of the annual Sony World Photography Awards for her documentary project about the sterilization of women in Greenland, and will receive a cash prize of $25,000. Here's more from CNN about her project, which was entered into the documentary category. You can also learn more about some of the winners of other categories, including Liam Man, a landscape photographer from the U.K., who took the otherworldly "Moonrise Sprites over Storr," and Valery Poshtarov of Bulgaria, who won the portraiture category for his series “Father and Son.”
Gene Herrick, the Associated Press photographer who took iconic pictures of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, and covered the Korean War and the trial of the killers of Emmett Till, died last week at age 97. He started at the AP aged 16 in Columbus, Ohio, as an office assistant, and retired in 1972. Here's the agency's tribute to him.
“This photo was taken by Nikita Teryoshin. It shows a VIP reception at a Swedish booth at an arms fair in Kielce, Poland, in 2016. Teryoshin spent eight years traveling to defense shows worldwide, capturing the surreal ways weapons are bought and sold. (…)
In the video, we break down the satire of this and other photos by Teryoshin and how the lampooning is even weightier because these arms expos evade public radar.” [Reading the Pictures]
I have 3+ #scanners, all with wildly different #color results, as you can see below. At least 2 of them can scan directly over LAN (in Simple Scan).
Ideally I'd want #colormanagement / calibration of scans, ideally with "Simple Scan" (otherwise, how do you do it with XSane?). I have a ColorMunki spectrophotometer, if it helps.
"...a large fraction of the country does not follow the news. Not on TV, not in newspapers, and not on the Internet. They are busy living their lives and politics is simply not important to them."
This insight may come as a revelation.
We easily forget that the community we choose is different from that of the general population. My community on #Mastodon includes the masto-cognoscenti, #writers, #authors, #artists, #photographers, the #autistic, #neurodivergent, people into #SF, #fantasy, and #fanfiction, as well as political activism. Your community probably varies from mine, as does your follow list.
We see the world differently.
Why does it feel like the voting public is so easily swayed or conned by bad candidates or bad ideas? Not all people think way we do, or the way our chosen communities do. The above quote is from the linked article.
Keeping this all in mind, this insight provides...
a basis for strategies to change how the public thinks. We can't expect our arguments to work for them, nor that they're listening to the channels we use to promote our ideas
a reason to re-humanize our thinking about the 99% who, gasp, aren't stupid after all. Instead they're struggling, occupied making life work, or simply disinterested. We can let go of our anger and think rationally.
A critical exploration of human impacts on the natural world, and how ecosystems are changing in our current era. Using the medium of photography, my work presents intimate portraits of ecosystems, challenging traditional botanical illustration by incorporating ecological cues and highlighting the interconnectedness of species.