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Around The Horn
21 January 2025
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 Inauguration Day, the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, Los Angeles, MPIX, Rocky Nook, still life photography, Ashok Sinha, darkroom printing and abandoned file systems.
- In Anti-Trump Protests Sweep the Globe on Inauguration Day, Julius Constantine Motal compiles images of the world's reaction to the event.
- In Families Reunite as the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Takes Effect, Majd Al-Waheidi and Virginia Lozano present photos from various sources.
- In Places in the Heart: Los Angeles, Joe McNally remembers his trips to the city for National Geographic. "As you walk out of LAX, the intense blue of the sky fills your eyes and opens your heart," he writes.
- Nilofer Khan notes that MPIX Is Helping Los Angeles Wildfire Victims Rebuild Their Memories. "In an Instagram post, the company announced that they are accepting reprint orders free of cost for those who have lost their MPIX prints or photo books in the California wildfire," he writes.
- This week Rocky Nook is donating 100 percent of its online sales to the L.A. Arts Community Fire Relief Fund to help the thousands of creatives impacted by the disaster.
- In The Still Life, Harold Davis puzzles over the meaning of the genre. "With a still life, the photographer has complete control of everything: the objects, how they are placed, the lighting and so on," he writes.
- Heidi Volpe interviews Ashok Sinha in Art of Looking Through Windows and 'The Fight to Save Googie'. "The Googie project recently published in NYT is a continuation of my personal photo series and book titled 'Gas and Glamour' and allowed me to connect with that lost design history and capture LA's car-culture-induced optimism and ambition reflected in polychromatic, star-spangled coffee shops, gas stations, car washes and others that once lured the gaze of passing motorists," he says.
- Mike Johnston suggests Two Printing Exercises for photographers who still have access to a darkroom. But as Luke comments, "All of these processes apply to digital."
- Thom Hogan wonders, What Will Cameras Look Like in Ten Years? "First, they will have multiple inputs (sensors)," he writes. "Second, they will integrate what we know about the world with what the sensors measure. Third, user control interaction will (mostly) disappear and be replaced by user processing interaction."
- In Celebrating 20 Years of LensCulture, the editors "look back at some favorite photography, writing and interviews."
- Ric Ford lists Apple's Abandoned File Systems, which may be relevant to you if you've archived to CD-ROM. Even reaf-only HFS is no longer supported after macOS 10.15.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...