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Around The Horn
6 August 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 Texas, Canadian wildfire smoke, Siri Kaur, software solutions, a big contract and authenticity provenance.
- The Associated Press documents the Texas Redistricting Standoff in photos curated by AP's photo editors.
- Reuters presents 15 images as Canadian Wildfire Smoke Shrouds New York City Skyline and air quality alerts were issued for the city.
- In Wonder Women, Mee-Lai Stone features Siri Kaur's photos of her sister "from being a giddy child opening Christmas presents to a mother with a baby girl."
- Derrick Story finds There Is No Single Software Solution as he redesigns his photography workflow. "I've learned through months of exploration and testing, that no one piece of software meets my needs or my desires," he writes. "And I thought that you would get a kick out of my multi-brand approach to managing and editing my pictures."
- Andrew Souders negotiates a contract for An Employee Lifestyle Library for Global Beauty Brand. It was a bigger client than the photographer had worked with before. "Once we took the expanded licensing and long-term library use into account, there was a clear opportunity to revise the fee structure to better match the value being delivered," he writes. "These revisions brought the total estimate to $38,440."
- In Introducing the Authenticity & Content Provenance Maturity Model, Paul Melcher suggests the value of an image today isn't "its beauty, originality, or timeliness" but "whether we can believe it."
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