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Around The Horn
20 March 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 gig workers, Irina Werning, Las Fallas, the Bronx, Nikon's technical guides, Roland Barthes, accessories, a $103K contract and Kevin Kelly's advice.
- Rest of World shadowed 104 workers in São Paulo, Lagos, Dhaka, and Jakarta to tske Portraits of Gig Workers to see how they spend their breaks between orders. "Nearly half the gig workers surveyed told us that they had been harassed or had their belongings stolen while taking a break."
- Grace Ebert showcases Irina Werning's project Las Pelilargas or The Longhairs. "Shot in color and black and white, the portraits document a distinct cultural practice through an incredibly alluring, even surreal lens," she writes. "Many subjects are camouflaged behind their cascading locks, their identities obscured by hair that sometimes even appears to consume their bodies whole."
- Various contributors capture the last night of Las Fallas in Valencia when installations of parodic papier-mache, cardboard and wooden sculptures are burned at the end of the festival.
- Joe Conzo Jr. captured The Bronx in black and white at the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s. These images are from an exhibit of his work at The Bronx Documentary Center opening Friday and running until Apr. 21.
- Thom Hogan wonders, Who's Writing Nikon's Technical Guides? He takes apart the latest recommendations for Z series wildlife photographers. "My suggestion is you ignore this new PDF from Nikon. It doesn't teach you anything, it has misguided, misleading and inconsistent info in it and I fail to see how it's going to make you a better wildlife photographer," he concludes, bluntly.
- In Punctum Def, Mike Johnston reflects on his reading of Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes. "His project in the book is to discover what he can know about photography by interrogating himself and his own reactions and feelings, which, like our innate sense of God or goodness, is something that can only be discovered by looking inward," he writes.
- Jason Row lists some Useful Gear for photographers, including filters, tripods, apps, shutter releases, lights and power banks.
- Craig Oppenheimer negotiates a $103K contract for Lifestyle Images for an Athletic Brand after the client made some concessions on the initial $115K bid.
- In Don't Be the Best Be the Only, Jason Kottke traces Kevin Kelly's advice to Bill Graham describing the Grateful Dead at a 1991 concert. In both cases, "What you offer to others is just different enough that you become your own category of one: nothing but you will do. Not better, different. "They're not the best at what they do, they're the only ones that do what they do," Graham had said. Be the only.
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