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Around The Horn
27 April 2023
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 Andrea Gjestvang, migrants at sea, latchkey kids, Harold Davis, sharper eyes, approaching strangers and analytics for art.
- In No Man Is an Island, Mee-Lai Stone presents Andrea Gjestvang's images created over six years of living on the Faroes where fishing the main industry and women are scarce. "More than half of those who leave [women studying abroad] never return and as a result the population of 54,000 has a gender deficit of around 2,000 women -- the deficit is 10 percent among women of reproductive age," she writes.
- In Tunisia Rounds Up Migrants at Sea in Unprecedented Numbers, Mehdi El-Arem and Elaine Ganley report on efforts to rescue sub-Saharan migrants before their flimsy vessels doom them. "Over 14 hours, 372 people were plucked from the fragile boats," they write. Photos by the Associated Press.
- Suzanne Sease features Latchkey Kids, the personal project of Dominic Perri. "This was shot during the pandemic to bring us back to a time when our biggest concern was what concoctions we were making for our after school snack," he writes.
- Harold Davis is reveling in the Glory of the Garden. "How wonderful to be photographing flowers from my garden at this time of year when the world comes to life and all the colors glow and are so glorious!" he writes. And shares three arrangements on his light table.
- Jasenka Grujin lists Four Key Lightroom Tips for Sharper Eyes in Portraits. She also provides links to six other resources on the subject.
- A Reddit poster asks for Tips for Approaching Strangers to Photograph Them and gets quite a few that boil down to a few basic principles.
- In OK Compute, Anya Ventura reports on how art historian Bárbara Romero Ferrón uses technology to study centuries-old art and defy human limitations. Think of it as analytics for art.
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