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Around The Horn
27 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 Wildlife Photographer of the Year, Crafting Sanctuaries, the film era, the Ricoh GR IV, natural light macros and the Great Digital Divide.
- From a record 60,636 entries, the first images from the Natural History Museum's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition have been published. The winners will be announced Oct. 14.
- Briana Ellis-Gibbs compiled images from the exhibition Crafting Sanctuaries: Black Spaces of the Great Depression South at the Museum of Art + Light in Manhattan, Kan. The images of the private homes and public gathering spaces of Black southerners are provide a corrective to the depictions of rural life in the south during the Great Depression that have been predominantly focused on whiteness.
- The Thing I Miss Most About the Film Era, writes Mike Johnston, is that "portraits have more or less gone away." The art of the formal portrait not the fast food of a selfie.
- Evaluating the Ricoh GR IV, Derrick Story likes its "APS sensor, sharp lens, excellent film simulations, fast focusing and 5-axis IBIS."
- Dahlia Ambrose curates 25 Macro Photos Captured Under Natural Light. "Learning how to use available natural light can go a long way in capturing stunning macro photographs," she writes.
- In The Coming Great Digital Divide, Paul Melcher imagines "a segregated Internet area solely reserved for real human beings, where access is predicated on proving one's humanity through increasingly sophisticated verification."
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