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Around The Horn
16 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 USAID cuts, SOS Richmond, odd photos, Satan's Barrel, emerging photographers, Zed Nelson, calculating reach and an industry survey.
- In Children Die as USAID Aid Cuts Snap a Lifeline for the World's Most Malnourished, the Associated Press documents the consequences after "the Trump administration cut more than 90 percent of USAID's foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in overall assistance around the world."
- Mike Kai Chen documents SOS Richmond for Julia Métraux's piece on the California nonprofit that gets unhoused people back on their feet.
- Reuters presents 14 of Our Oddest Photos of the Week from around the world.
- Binsar Bakkara takes her camera into Satan's Barrel to capture "the most-awaited performance at the night fair in the outskirts of Medan city in Indonesia's North Sumatra province." The bike riders don't wear helmets in the 19- to 33-foot diameter velodrome track also known as the Wall of Death.
- Glorious Images From Rising Stars features images from new artists were nominated for the Photo London Nikon emerging photographer award.
- Kate Mothes reviews Zed Nelson's new book The Anthropocene Illusion. "While we destroy the natural world around us, we have become masters of a stage-managed, artificial 'experience' of nature -- a reassuring spectacle, an illusion," he says.
- In Calculating Reach for Wildlife Photography, Jim Kasson reveals "how to calculate reach given the focal length of the lens and the pixel pitch of the sensor." And shows why smaller formats like Micro Four Thirds have the best reach.
- Rob Haggart invites you to take the 2025 State of the Industry Survey, which takes 12 minutes to complete.
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