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Around The Horn
18 July 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 the Audubon Photography awards, the AP Week in Pictures, Robert Adams, Sari Soininen, Gaël Turin, Latin American Foto Festival, Kanab, thinkers, color depth performance and photo walk leaders.
- The 2022 Audubon Photography Awards had winners have been announced. Almost 2,500 photographers from across the United States and Canada submitted nearly 10,000 photographs and videos to this year's contest.
- Associated Press photo editor Anita Baca in Mexico City curated the AP Week in Pictures. Some notables (among many): fighting a wildfire with a branch, ironing the flag, Biden taking a selfie, an apology at the Capitol.
- American Silence: The Photographs of Robert Adams is on exhibit until Oct. 2 at the National Gallery of Art. "Divided into three sections -- The Gift, Our Response and Tenancy -- the exhibition features some 175 works from the artist's most important projects and includes pictures of suburban sprawl, strip malls, highways, homes and stores, as well as rivers, skies, the prairie and the ocean," the Gallery notes. Arthur Lubow reviews the exhibt in Sunlit Apocalypse: The Imperiled World of Robert Adams (gift link).
- In Transcendent Country of the Mind, Joanna Cresswell looks at Sari Soininen's "washy, dreamy images and hyper-focused moments of heavy flash" that reflect an earlier experience of LSD-induced psychosis. "I want to get the viewer to look at the banality of life around us differently, because I feel that when we let go of our ordinary perception, we can start to see the world in ever more exciting -- or terrifying -- ways," Soininen says.
- Braving Waves and Prejudices features Gaël Turin's photos of Sri Lankan women surfers. "Most of these women have very modest lives, but as soon as they reach the beach and are about to go surfing, it's like all their problems are left behind," she says.
- Matt Fidler features a few images from the Bronx Documentary Center's Latin American Foto Festival on exhibit until July 31.
- Julieanne Kost has been photographing in Kanab, Utah, and will return there to present at the Outsiders Photography Conference, Mar. 3-5.
- In Thinkers Versus Non-Thinkers, Thom Hogan defines two approaches to camera use that might better be delineated as the difference between the deliberate manual setting of a camera in contrast to putting everything on Auto.
- In D'Oh! Saying No (iPhone 13), Mike Johnston notes, "If you haven't noticed, what DxO calls 'color depth performance' is a weakness on phone cameras -- basically, not enough colors. So correcting subtle colors is less than satisfying." So he scuttled an iPhone 13 photo project he thought up a few days ago.
- Scott Kelby has put out the call for Photo Walk Leaders for the 13th annual, which will be back in person this year.
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