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Around The Horn
13 October 2017
In this recurring column, we highlight a few items we've run across that don't merit a full story of their own but are interesting enough to bring to your attention (with more than 140 characters). This time we look at Helen Levitt, curating an exhibit, more from the Filter Festival, a London photo project, iOS 11's long exposures and Aundre Larrow.
- In The Subway Portraits of Helen Levitt, Rena Silverman points out "Levitt, a young Bensonhurst native, apprenticed with Walker Evans as he photographed unsuspecting commuters." She distracted the passengers for him as she learned the ropes. Her own images have been published in Manhattan Transit: The Subway Photographs of Helen Levitt.
- In Robin's Photo Exhibition in Kuching, Robin Wong reflects on curating an exhibition. "We sometimes love our own images too much to reject them, but rejection is necessary when it comes to tight curation. And tight curation is necessary to show the best of you as a photographer," he writes.
- Jonathan Blaustein has published the second part of The Best Work I Saw at the Filter Festival. "This might seem like a long story, but bear with me," he begins.
- Ellen Scott shows What Happened When 100 Cameras Were Handed Out to Homeless People in London. In June Cafè Art, which holds the MyLondon Photography Contest, handed out 100 one-time-use FujiFilm cameras to homeless people around St Paul's Cathedral, asking them to focus not on homelessness but the London they love.
- In Using Long Exposure in iOS 11'S Photos App, Jeff Carlson compares the new iPhone trick to using a neutral density filter on his Fujifilm X-T1. It isn't perfect, he points out, but it is easy.
- "The first portraits I took were terrible," writes Aundre Larrow, an Adobe creative resident, in Beyond a Single Image. His residency project, Stories from here, is "a visual study of how our sense of place impacts us."
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