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Around The Horn
17 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 a Ukrainian trench, master craftsmen's tools, sunshine at midnight, volcanic smoke rings, Hippolyte Bayard, urban wildlife and a Fracture deal.
- In Looking for a Fight (gift link), New York Times photographer Tyler Hicks spends four days at a remote Ukrainian trench outpost manned by soldiers of the Second International Legion. "During the day, fighting flared up every three or four hours, generally lasting an hour," he writes. "At night came the bombs."
- Kim Lang and Robert Spangle photograph the favorite tools of the Gods of Creation, master craftsmen of various stripes.
- In Sunshine at Midnight, Charlotte Jansen interviews Inuuteq Storch about his shot in Qaanaaq, Greenland, of two kids taking a nap. It's from his series Soon Will Summer Be Over. "I work with three different cameras. This was taken with a point-and-shoot," he says.
- Kate Moths presents images of rare Volcanic Smoke Rings blown by Mount Etna. "The rings appeared for the first time since last December when a small vent opened on the Southeast cater," she writes.
- Erin Migdol profiles Hippolyte Bayard as The 19th-Century Selfie Pioneer. "In a series of self-portraits from the 1840s, Bayard posed himself in his or his family's gardens, among plants and tools, emphasizing his passion for horticulture," she writes. Or himself twice, as in his double self-portrait.
- Harvey Stearn concludes his six-part series Cityscapes with Urban Wildlife. It's not all birds, he points out.
- Top celebrate its new Frames option (solid wood frames in three colors for its glass prints), Fracture is offering 30 percent off its prints and frames with code FRAMES30 until 11:59 EST tonight.
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