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Around The Horn
6 May 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 the Met Gala, the Valdez Trail, Chris Donovan and Bernat Armangué.
- Reuters captures the glamousr on the red carpet in Met Gala 2025 Style. This year's theme for the invite-only event was "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style." The Associated Press shares its best shots of the Met Gala as well.
- In Along the Valdez Trail, Alan Taylor features images from 1902 by the Miles Brothers, who documented the growth of port of Valdez as 100,000 people joined the Klondike Gold Rush in 1902. "Prints of these photographs were collected into an album I was able to digitize recently at the U.S. National Archives, giving us a remarkable glimpse into daily life along a rough trail into the Alaskan interior, nearly 125 years ago," he writes.
- The Cloud Factory by Chris Donovan documents his hometown of Saint John, New Brunswick, on Canada's east coast. It shows the inhabitants living in the shadows of Canada's largest oil refinery -- and the huge gulf between rich and poor.
- Bernat Armangué expresses The Simplicity of Pope Francis in One Eternal Frame. "All day long, thousands of faithful walked past the tomb and, like the rest of them, I was allowed just few seconds in front of it," he writes. "I knew I wouldn't have a second chance, so I made sure all my camera presets were correct. Once there, I saw a white rose atop a tomb only with the word 'Franciscus' engraved on it. It was easy to decide that this was the frame I wanted. I pressed the button and walked away." (Oh, about that kerning. You can see the positive letterspacing added between letters in even the "F R" and how that same mathematical formula did not account for the greater optical distance around the "A" and "V" (for "U"). Sometimes you have to trust your eyes.)
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