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Around The Horn
22 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 Beijing, Kyotographie 2024, intimacy, Tony Van Le, Tokyo, French Wisteria, Philip Wiper, the Leica Q2 and old gear.
- Glimpses of Beijing Through Windows and Doorways features images by Associated Press photographer Tatan Syuflana on temporary assignment in Beijing.
- Joanna Ruck reviews Kyotographie 2024, the photo festival staged in striking locations in Kyoto for which photographers from around the world submitted pictures on the theme of "source."
- In Making Light of Every Thing, Magali Duzant explores a new exhibition about intimacy that brings together "a group of experimental photographers that play with fabrication and manipulation to try to catch this ephemeral theme."
- Jackie Andres features Tony Van Le's Street Photography. "When I'm out on the street, my mindset combines looking for the out-of-the-ordinary with trying to be a blank slate," Van Le says.
- In The Pace of Spaces, French photographer Aurélien Longo captures the varied rhythms of Tokyo.
- Harold Davis shows two images of French Wisteria. The first one is "an iPhone rendering of a semi-abandoned formal mansion, on a main street in Millau, France, with the wisteria decoratively framing the front gate," he writes. "The lower image is a conventional photo of a wall in a small village."
- Mike Johnston finds the work of Philip Wiper Weird, and Weirdly Fascinating. "Photography from the beginning has been a way of showing people places they can't get to themselves," he writes. In this case Wiper takes us to the Alcor Life Extension Foundation headquarters in Arizona.
- Kirk Tuck is working out An Evolving Methodology for Using the Leica Q2. "In taking the camera down to its essentials: manual focusing and manual exposure, it works just like the cameras I grew up with and learned to work with. It's a comfortable way to work because you have at least the idea of being in complete control."
- A Reddit poster admits to Difficulty Letting Go of Old Gear. And gets some ingenious ideas in response.
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