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Around The Horn
23 June 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 NBA Finals, Greece's Chios, the Vietnamese diaspora, the Black Panthers, the Vera Rubin Observatory, self portraits and advance directives.
- The Associated Press captured images of Game 7 of the NBA Finals.
- Reuters presents 11 photos as Villagers Flee as Wildfires Rage on Greece's Chios. Winds are whipping up the blaze.
- In Documenting Vietnamese Diaspora Around the World, Marigold Warner reviews Jess Tran's archive of portraits capturing Vietnamese life across the world. Tran has only just begun with about 30 images of the 300 or more she needs for a book and the millions she wants to take.
- The Guardian spotlights a few of Stephen Shames's images of The Black Panthers currently on exhibit at the Amar Gallery in London until July 6.
- Paola Rosa-Aquino shares the First Deep-Space Images From the Vera Rubin Observatory, the world's largest and highest resolution digital camera. "It's really a great instrument. Its depth and large field of view will allow us to take really nice images of stars, especially faint ones," sais Christian Aganze, a galactic archeologist at Stanford University. "We are truly entering a new era."
- In Culture Is Ever-Changing (Self Portraits), Mike Johnston quotes our old comrade Luke from Imaging Resource who "mentioned a number of new terms that have become current" in reference to the genre. Every now and then Luke would email us to see if we still had our Alfa. Took it up Twin Peaks yesterday, Luke. Never ran better.
- Advance Directives are not just for health care. In The Afterlife of Apple Accounts (And Others), Glenn Fleishman looks at how Apple, Google and Facebook let you determine how to handle access to your cloud data after you're gone.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...