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Around The Horn
30 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 sports, Andrés Mario de Varona, Jami McGrego Smith, a fisheye cathedral ceiling, the shooting experience and a sales comeback.
- The Associated Press showcases its Sports Week in Pictures curated by AP staff photographer Erin Hooley.
- Andrés Mario de Varona, the gas station photographer, tells the story of A Three-Year Friendship That Ended With an Unsolved Murder in words and photos. "I don't think I have ever been understood by someone in the way Aaron recognized me," he writes. "If Aaron could see himself in everyone, why couldn't we see ourselves in Aaron?"
- Kate Mothes reviews Sacred Modernity, Jami McGrego Smith's photographs of Europe’s most stunning brutalist churches. "Brutalism, known for its bare, monochrome, industrial materials like concrete, brick and steel, became a way for centers of influence like municipal hubs, government buildings and cultural institutions to convey magnificent resilience and contemporaneity," she writes. "Religious architecture was no exception" The title will be published May 14.
- Harold Davis takes a fish-eye shot of the ceiling of Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile D'Albi that makes the chandeliers look like their swinging.
- In It's the Shooting Experience, Not Image Quality, Derrick Story explores what makes us bond with a particular camera. "All cameras these days produce good images," he writes. "It's how you get there that seems to separate the winners from crowd."
- Tom Chivers reports Digital Cameras Are Making a Comeback with sales growing in 2023 for the first time in 13 years. Smartphones had eroded the market from a high of 10.4 million units in 2010 to as low as 1.2 million. "But in 2022, higher-end cameras with interchangeable lenses saw an increase in sales and that growth continued last year, with compact cameras also seeing an uptick," he writes.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...