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Around The Horn
25 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 cherry blossoms, Antarctica's glaciers, Holi, Murray Ballard, Shaw and Finnegan, Kirk Tuck getting powdered and Werner Bischof.
- In DC's Cherry Blossoms in Peak Bloom, the Picture Show at NPR says farewell to Stumpy, one of 158 cherry trees that will be cut down later this spring as part of a project to rebuild and raise the seawalls around the basin. Photos by Zayhra Rodriguez, Tyrone Turner and Carol Guzy.
- Sebnem Coskun has been documenting Changes in Antarctica's Glaciers and Ice Sheets during Turkey’s eighth national antarctic science expedition. The expedition is uncovering concealed data within the ice, gathered from years of research on topics like sea ice and glacier dynamics.
- The Associated Press showcases Holi, the Hindu Festival of Color. "Widely known as the Hindu festival of colors, Holi marks the arrival of the spring season in India, Nepal and other South Asian countries as well as the diaspora. It celebrates the divine love between the Hindu god Krishna and his consort Radha and signifies a time of rebirth and rejuvenation, embracing the positive and letting go of negative energy."
- In Ghosts in the Field, Sophie Wright interviews Murray Ballard who has spent the past 10 years in southern Puglia, Italy, photographing the devastation caused by a near-invisible plant pathogen called Xylella on ancient olive trees and a once-thriving agricultural economy. "I'm fascinated by the limitations of photography; how the world is shaped by these forces that we can't see with our eyes, how a regular camera can't take a picture of the bacteria -- which has totally devastated this landscape and ended a centuries-old way of life," he says.
- In Bringing Later Stage Abortions Into the Light, Michael Shaw and Cara Finnegan examine a photo was taken by Maggie Shannon for a New Yorker photo essay about a Maryland clinic providing later-stage abortions:
- In The Khushfest Gallery, Kirk Tuck takes his Leica to "an event which celebrates Indian culture" (see above) only to have it "dusted" with brightly colored powders. "Once you've been 'dusted' you might as well just let your hair down and photograph to your heart's delight," he writes. "I did. Everyone was kind and in good humor."
- The Ernst Leitz Museum in Wetzlar is exhibiting images from the life's work of Werner Bischof: Photographer, Artist, Witness. "It is a comprehensive exhibition of the whole body of work and reveals the diversity of Werner Bischof's oeuvre," say his son Marco Bischof. Leica presents a few of the black-and-white photographs.
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