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Around The Horn
16 January 2024
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 AP's week in pictures, being 72, Jon Feinstein, Stuart Franklin, Kost's Australian aerials, Joe McNally and Derrick Story.
- The Associate Press presents last Week in Pictures from around the globe.
- Being 72 Around the World is a photo essay by Ed Kashi, Ilvy Njiokiktjien and Sara Terry. With the global median life expectancy at 72 years old, the introduce a project that will photograph a diverse group of people in later life through 2030.
- In Breathers, After Alzheimers, Magali Duzant explores Jon Feinstein's series Breathers, black-and-white images of trees. "They felt like metaphors for our family's emerging loss and memory loss," he says. "The holes in their branches. The patterns and flourishes seemed to symbolize brain activity. The hypnotic, long-stare-inducing flutter of their leaves."
- In his series Traces, Stuart Franklin explores the relationship between nature and society, as well as between landscape and memory. "Trees and the sometimes quiet places where they grow, have always offered a form of therapy," he says.
- Julieanne Kost shares her favorite Abstract Aerials from Lake Eyre, Australia
- In Keeping Your Eye in the Camera, Joe McNally reviews his work from last year. "A radiant shard of optimism sliced through the clouds of my relentless, personal, near daily employee review session and warmed my face," he writes. "Hey, maybe it wasn't so bad after all!"
- In Looking Back and More, Now 2024, Derrick Story confesses to still using Aperture to create annual libraries. He also dumps his smartphone photos to Photos with an iCloud backup. And uses a Capture One catalog. "It's easy to forget how much cool stuff happens in just a single year," he writes. But his over the past year "helps me appreciate the good fortune of my life."
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...