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Around The Horn
29 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 Dudi Ben Simon, Ciro Battiloro, Lydia Goldblatt, Arrayah Loynd, San Francisco Bar Pilots, historical Cairo, press checks, Magnum's Square Print Sale, the Joan Wakelin Bursary Prize and film storage.
- Kate Mothes features Dudi Ben Simon's photos that play on Visual Puns and Humourous Happenstance. "Ben Simon also takes inspiration from the directness of advertising, focusing on a finely tuned, deceptively simple message that can both be read quickly and provoke humor or curiosity," she writes.
- Italian photojournalist Ciro Battiloro went to Normandy to document the daily lives of fishermen in his project Le Petit Souffle. "I discovered that there are still fishermen today who carry on artisanal fishing and I was interested in doing a project about the working class and to talk about something that was at the heart of the identity of those places," he says.
- Tim Adams reviews Fugue, Lydia Goldblatt's new book, which she describes as a "story about mothering and losing a mother, intimacy and distance, told through photographs and writing."
- In And Then You Were Gone, Magali Duzant reviews Arrayah Loynd's project of the same name. The project explores prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, which Loynd herself suffers from.
- Alex Mullaney follows a San Francisco Bar Pilot around for a day while Morgan Ellis photographs the sailor who is one of the little-known navigators who keep Bay Area ports humming.
- Malaka Gharib showcases Nour El Massry's Dreamy Photos of Historical Cairo. "My target is to make my art like a painting," he says.
- In Color Week Here at HQ, Kirk Tuck writes about getting his house painted after his art director wife picked the colors. "I've spent many late nights doing press checks with B., running big sheets of premium papers on Heidelberg presses and looking at the resulting test sheets with a printer's loupe," he writes. Ah, press checks, those were the days. We had an occupational therapist over this Saturday who had another patient who was in printing and she made us feel like we were apparitions from the century before the Enlightenment.
- Magnum is having its 10th anniversary Square Print Sale tagged Fable, this time partnering with the literary magazine Granta. "Together, we celebrate the symbiosis between visual and written narratives through a collaboration with three writers, Sara Baume, Victoria Adukwei Bulley and Derek Owusu, who have weaved stories and poetry inspired by the [85] images featured in the sale."
- The Guardian celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Joan Wakelin Bursary Prize while announcing it is accepting submissions for this year's edition.
- After being gifted 'two massive boxes full of Kodak film processing bags," a Reddit poster asks for some Photo Storage Advice. Time-honored answers to the rescue.
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