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Around The Horn
8 April 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 seven Afghan families, Gaza, Akihiko Okamura, Jiatong Lu, Ian Berry, Treasure Island, umbrellas and the eclipse.
- In Homecoming (gift link), Elise Blanchard examines the story told by one image of seven Afghan families jammed into a truck after Pakistan ordered them out. "In the bed of the truck were women and safe from public view, they had been traveling without burqas," she writes. "They put them on before I began photographing."
- Peter Beaumont presents Chris Black's photos documenting the situation in Gaza for the World Health Organization. "I've been working in the humanitarian field for 30 years -- conflicts, health emergencies and disasters. But this felt like a life-changing experience," Black says.
- Sean O'Hagan reflects on How Akihiko Okamura Captured the Troubles as an exhibit of the images opens at Photo Museum Ireland. "The horror he experienced in Vietnam had altered not just his approach, but his consciousness, transforming him into a quiet, but acute, observer of the disrupted everyday at the very beginning of a conflict that would last for 30 years," he writes.
- In The Secret Place With Nowhere to Hide, Marigold Warner explores the images Jiatong Lu creates to heal from childhood trauma reconnecting with herself and others around her in the process. Berry is about to celebrate his 90th birthday.
- In his photo book Water, British photojournalist Ian Berry presents images that "convey the religious, social, societal and political interweaving between the element and its consumers around the world."
- In John Chiara's 'Sea of Glass' Reframes Nature on Treasure Island, Max Blue reports on the photographer's show of images made on a large, handmade camera obscura. Made as part of the Treasure Island Photo Documentation Project, they are on exhibit through April 27 at Haines Gallery in San Francisco.
- In An Italian Maker Crafts Umbrellas With Personality (gift link), Camilla Ferrari's photographs illustrate Felicia Craddock's story about Carlo Suino.
- Emily Alfin Johnson can tell you What Time the Eclipse Will Be Visible in Your Region today. So can NASA, which prompts for you ZIP code and returns the time and a diagram of how much of the sun will be obscured there.
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