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Around The Horn
26 January 2022
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. This time we look at Peter Franck, Alex Prager, Kirk Tuck, Jonathan Donovan, Truth in Photography, Anton Corbijn, Blipfoto, clarity, 41 free brushes, camera settings, a new Baker's Dozen call and the Superb Owl Awards.
- In Lost, Found and Seen, Magali Duzant explores the monochrome images of German artist Peter Franck, another LensCulture Black & White Photography Award winner. Franck crafts digital landscapes out of photos from various archives to "build a sense of indeterminate time, drifting somewhere between past, present and future."
- Falling for It showcases Alex Prager's cinematic portraits of people in free fall. "Both a photographer and a film-maker, Prager is known for her elaborately staged scenes that capture a moment frozen in time, inviting the viewer to 'complete the story' and speculate about its narrative context," one caption reads. The images are currently on exhibit a Lehmann Maupin Gallery in London through Mar. 5.
- In Gloomy Winter Time, Kirk Tuck takes a black-and-white walk downtown with his Fujifilm X100V using its Tri-X simulation.
- In Single Parent Strength, Jonathan Donovan writes about his series of portraits focusing on the strength, resilience and love of single parents. The project also focuses on the work of Gingerbread, a U.K. charity working with single-parent families.
- Truth in Photography has launched its free online Winter 2022 exhibition featuring Looking for Truth in a Digital Age, Conflict Photography and Transformation of Truth.
- Anton Corbijn talks to Tim Jonze about his Favourite Portraits, including Miles Davis, David Bowie, Virgil Abloh, Damien Hirst and Naomi Campbell.
- In Climate Change One Day at at Time, Rebecca Cole and Richard Hunt-Smith showcases images by Blipfoto members, who record a photo a day in a photo journal, that reflect their perspectives on our changing climate.
- We Need Clarity, Thom Hogan responds to rumors that the Nikon D500 has been discontinued. "The problem I'm seeing almost universally is that camera companies are providing little guidance to customers about what's happening," he writes. He lists the big questions dogging Canon, Nikon and Sony as proof.
- Martin Palm includes a Free Retouching Brush Pack in his Creative Cloud blog piece. "This multifaceted set of 41 brushes includes nature elements like trees, rain and snow, moody atmospheric brushes that help you create haze, dust and light effects and brushes for enhancing portraiture," he writes.
- Dan Havlik summarizes the Seven Camera Settings You Should Change Immediately identified by photographer Saurav Sinha in an 8:36 video we couldn't get to play (but it's quicker to read the summary).
- Mike Johnston has put out a New Baker's Dozen Call for Work: Object of Affection. "It can be any kind of object. Perhaps of a sort you have some kind of affection for," he writes, stating what you would think would be the obvious. And yet.
- Hope you didn't delete any owl photos because the inaugural Superb Owl Awards is providing "a chance to win a wildlife holiday of a lifetime worth $4,000." The contest was inspired by "misspelt searches of a certain famous sporting occasion" that flood search engines early in February each year.
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