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Around The Horn
18 April 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 Education Day of Action, Holy Week, Tom Leighton, Paloma Dooley and detecting AI art.
- The Associated Press presents images from the Education Day of Action Protests. "University professors and students led protests on campuses across the U.S. against what they say are broad attacks on higher education, including massive cuts to funding, the expulsion of international students and the stifling of free speech about the war in Gaza."
- Reuters compiles 47 photos of Holy Week Celebrations Around the World.
- In Water Droplets Cling to Fluorescent Plant Spines, Grace Ebert features images from Tom Leighton's latest series Spines. "The macro images concentrate on the fine fibers cloaking stems and flowers," she writes. "Water droplets cling to the surfaces as if the plants had just emerged from a heavy downpour." Botanical bling, in short.
- In his Film Friday series, Mike Johnston celebrates the $50 Per Exposure discipline of Paloma Dooley. "I like the independence of thought it takes to shoot 8x10-inch film in the age of the Sony A-1, and it tickled me that she considers two exposures per week to be heavy shooting.," he writes.
- Can You Differentiate AI Art From Real Photos? Zach Sutton wonders after ChatGPT's latest release and Google's imagen 3. He provides four tips for identifying AI images.
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