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Around The Horn
27 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 Holocaust Remembrance Day, Auschwitz, Venice in Winter, the state of play and Pixelfed.
- Matt Fidler marks Holocaust Remembrance Day in pictures from Poland, Russia, Ukraine, England, Greece, Italy and Germany.
- Associated Press photographer Oded Balilty captures the scene in Silence Pervades Auschwitz on the Eve of the 80th Anniversary of the Camp's Liberation.
- Matteo de Mayda's photographs illustrate Venice in Winter, With a Poet as Our Guide (gift link) by Finn-Olaf Jones who wandered the city guided by the Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky's travel book about Venice, called Watermark, published in 1992. "I would like to live my next life in Venice," Brodsky wrote. "To be a cat there, anything, even a rat, but always in Venice."
- Thom Hogan asks, Are You Going Forward, Backwards or Sideways? Probably not a good time to upgrade, he suggests, despite the lure of the new. "To me, photography is personal. It's a means of expression," he writes. "It's unrealistic to think that some artificial intelligence is going to correctly express yourself."
- A Reddit poster asks, Anyone Making the Move to Pixelfed? And gets some interesting answers. No fans of the interface, though.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look back. And please support our efforts...