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Around The Horn
12 July 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 Death Valley, empty bedrooms, Brook DiDonato, Noah Berger in Oroville, $50 lighting gear and new film cameras.
- Heatwave Tourism in Death Valley spikes as temperatures break 130 degrees.
- In Time Is Frozen in the Empty Bedrooms of Israelis Kidnapped by Hamas, Associated Press photographer Oded Balilty revisits the scene of the Oct. 7 attack where "some hostages' bedrooms still show signs of that day's violence and struggle: blood-stained floors, bullet-riddled walls, scorched and toppled furniture, write Melanie Lidman in the accompanying story.
- Grace Ebert features Brook DiDonato's photos from her new monograph Take a Picture, It Will Last Longer. "The photographer (previously) is known for her uncanny compositions that twist what appears like a typical encounter with a bookish friend or chain-link fence into a strange, confounding scene," she writes.
- Noah Berger captures A Portal Into the Heat at the Thompson Fire in Oroville, Calif. "I wear the same full protective gear that woodland firefighters use including fire resistant Nomex clothing, hard hat, woodland fire boots, goggles and a fire shelter," he writes. "I also use a scanner than lets me hear first responders and pinpoint where the head of the fire is progressing." Two cameras with zoom lenses go with him.
- Kirk Tuck revisits Lighting gear after finding an old photo of a $50 fixture he cobbled together from four fluorescent fixtures he found at Home Depot. "What matters most is that you have some. And believe me, it doesn't have to be expensive or be imported from Switzerland," he writes.
- Mike Johnston observes you can Collect Every New Film Renaissance Camera There Is because there's only one. Except it sold out. He's not interested, though. "I'm like, Dude, I got my axe. That's all I need," he writes.
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