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Around The Horn
22 September 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 a Romanian fair, California's unsheltered community, the Nikon Z f, another income, portrait lenses and Michael Bierut on creativity.
- In Traditional Autumn Fair Brings Color and Joy Into Everyday Lives of Romania's Poor, Associated Press photographers Vadim Ghirda and Andreea Alexandru capture the fun near Titu. The fair has been going on there for nearly 200 years.
- In 'I'm Doing the Best I Can', Sam Comen's photographs illustrate Aaron Schrank's piece on California's unsheltered community. Starting in the fall of 2021, Shrank and Comen interviewed and photographed unhoused people in Los Angeles and Northern California as a companion piece to the University of California San Francisco Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative's California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness.
- Mike Johnston thanks Nikon for continuing to try to produce a "digital version of the FM2/FE2" with the The Nikon Z f. He also follows up on the fate of the Panasonic G9.
- Continuing his series on incomes in the industry, Rob Haggart finds an Architectural Photographer making $360,000 a year.
- Dahlia Ambrose list The Best Lens for Portraits after detailing what she's looking for. Missing a few manufacturers (no Nikkor made it?).
- In Michael Bierut on Design Before and After the Computer and Why AI Might Not Be So Bad After All, Rudy Sanchez interviews the Pentagram partner about the parallel between the advents of the computer and artificial intelligence. "If you're in a creative business, once you have AI engines that write, design or do things, the threshold for what counts as creativity gets more clearly illuminated," Bierut says.
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