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8 November 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 remnants of the Berlin Wall, Emerging Photographers, symmetry, Nigel Shafran's personal journals and the Nikon Z50 II.
- Fragments of East Germany's Border Remain 35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Associated Press photographer Mark Schreiber documents them.
- The Guardian presents images by World Press Photo's Emerging Photographers in the fields of documentary photography, photojournalism and visual storytelling.
- Dahlia Ambrose curates 19 images showing A Sense of Harmony and Balance Through Symmetry.
- In Workbooks -- Beautiful Everyday Moments in a Photographer's Life, Sophie Wright reviews four decades of Nigel Shafran's personal journals. "For Shafran, beauty is to be found in the ordinary, not in the high glamor of his work world," she writes.
- Thom Hogsn takes a look a the Nikon Z50 II. "If the Z8 was a mini Z9 and the Z6 III was a quasi Z8, then the Z50 II is a miniature Z6 III," he writes. "There's a lot of horsepower and features packed in a small, easy-to-carry body that comes in at less than one large (or ten Benjamins)."
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look back. And please support our efforts...