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Around The Horn
31 October 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 Baldwin Lee, Mangrove photos, Black portraiture, Day of the Dead, a vignetting compulsion, Thom Hogan and PortraitPro 23.
- The particularly thoughtful and eloquent Margaret Renkl looks at The Troubling and Humane Photography of Baldwin Lee (gift link) currently on view at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York through Nov. 12. "These photos are neither exploitative nor prescriptive," she writes. "They are collaborative works of art." Partly because, as Lee tells it, "No matter what I say, people do something else and this is where it gets fantastically interesting because people do better than what I wanted."
- Matt Fidler presents The Year's Best Mangrove Photographs. Mangroves are one of the world's biggest allies against climate change, the Mangrove Project maintains.
- Writer and critic Antwaun Sargent has curated an exhibition showcasing A New Aesthetic in Black Portraiture by an emerging generation of black models, photographers and stylists. The exhibit will be open at the Saatchi Gallery in London until Jan. 22, 2023.
- Kirk Tuck stuck his new Voigtlander 40mm on his old Leica SL and took over a thousand photos of the Day of the Dead Parade. "In many ways it's easier to take photographs of strangers now," he writes. Well, it %5Fwas_ Halloween, after all.
- Horrors! In Here's a Lightroom Finishing Move I Do to Nearly All My Images, Scott Kelby confesses he adds a %5Fvignette_ to every photo he processes in Lightroom:
- In More Questions Answered, Thom Hogan tackles a few of the tamer queries.
- Anthropics has released PortraitPro 23 with a new stray hair remover tool, Apple silicon support, art effects, a backlight lighting brush and improved Raw support.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...