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Around The Horn
28 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 Scripps National Spelling Bee, Gaza, the Hapa Project, David Burnett on Nick Ut, Harvard returns Tamara Lanier's family photos and Nikon price adjustments.
- Julia Demaree Nikinson and Jose Luis Magana capture the action at the 100th Scripps National Spelling Bee.
- With 30 photos, Reuters documents life now in The Ruins of Gaza, " where the population of two million is at risk of famine."
- Photographer Kip Fulbeck revisits The Hapa Project, an intimate look at mixed-race America, 25 years after its launch. You can see his images on the project's Instagram page.
- Rob Haggart interviews David Burnett about the film The Stringer and what he saw in Trang Bang when Nick Ut took the famous Napalm Girl image. The film claims Nguyễn Thành Nghệ actually took the picture. Burnett was an eyewitness to the events at Trang Bang, where the famous image was made. He tells the story.
- Leah Willingham reports After a 15-Year Battle, Harvard Agrees in Settlement to Relinquish Early Photos of Slaves. "The photos of the subjects identified by Tamara Lanier as her great-great-great-grandfather Renty, whom she calls 'Papa Renty,' and his daughter Delia will be transferred from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology to the International African American Museum in South Carolina, the state where they were enslaved in 1850 when the photos were taken, a lawyer for Lanier said Wednesday."
- Thom Hogan examines Nikon's Statement About Pricing for clues about the June 23 "adjustments," with a list of lenses to buy now to avoid the increases.
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