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Around The Horn
22 February 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 being homeless, Palestine, the Deutsche Börse Prize, Cossacks, a Lightroom update, building a studio, mount licensing, iCloud throttling and bad advice.
- A Life Without a Home (gift article) documents in photos, videos and words the homeless living in "the tents, shelters, cars, motels and couches of America." Jacqueline Bates, N.Y. Times opinion photography director, explained, "Photography of people without stable housing can often feel voyeuristic and invasive. Rarely are they seen as active participants in their own stories. Portraying people who are often at their most vulnerable, at times surviving the worst crisis of their lives, requires a level of empathy and care."
- Chris McGreal reviews Against Erasure. The book tells the story in English and Arabic of Palestinian life before Israel's establishment in 1948. Co-edited by Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro with a foreword by Mohammed El-Kurd, the photographs in the book are traces of an existence that has not been erased.
- The Guardian presents images from the winners of The Deutsche Börse Prize on exhibit at the Photographers' Gallery in London until June 2.
- Suzanne Sease features The Cossacks' Traditions with photographs by Claire Harbage. Not Russian Cossacks but Zaporizhzhian Cossacks. "The Russian Cossacks were nothing but servants and all they ever did was submit to the czar," says one of them. "The Zaporizhzhian Cossacks never submitted to anybody."
- In Find Your Photos Faster in Lightroom Classic, Julieanne Kost details the changes in v13.2. "This update to Lightroom Classic introduces additional organizational enhancements including new options for Smart Collections, Metadata filters, and Sort criteria," she writes.
- Zach Sutton shares plans for Building a Photo or Video Studio on a Budget. "What might surprise many people who follow my work, is that I work out of a small home studio that I operate out of my garage for a lot of my work," he writes.
- Thom Hogan discusses The Problem With Restriction Mount Licensing after Sigma's recent announcements.
- Howard Oakley discovers, as he suspected, iCloud Does Throttle Data Syncing After All. Which explains why it isn't suitable for "too many CloudKit requests in too short a period."
- A Reddit poster asks for Bad Photography Advice and gets over 230 suggestions in five hours. All of it bad.
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