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Around The Horn
6 October 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 war Between Israel and Hamas, Portland ICE headquarters, Shane Lowry celebrating, pixels, the AI question and taking photos.
- The Associated Press presents photos from two years of War Between Israel and Hamas bearing "witness to its horrors." They are difficult to view.
- Reuters post 29 photos of protesters, counter protesters and law enforcement clashig at Portland ICE Headquarters. Also very hard to look at.
- Matt Slocum says the Ryder Cup was easily the hardest event he's ever covered in 20 years as an Associated Press photographer. But you'd never know if from his photo of Europe's Shane Lowry Celebrating because it was the clinching moment of the Ryder Cup. "The image works because Lowry celebrated with an unexpected leap, twisting my way," he says. "I was able to keep him in the frame and in focus as he jubilantly bounced around the green."
- In A Pixel Is Not a Little Square, Revisited, Jim Kasson takes a crack at refashioning Alvy Ray Smith's "wonderful white paper" for photographers instead of Smith's audience of graphics engineers. "Pixels are measurements, not rectangles," he writes.
- In Assist Versus Generate, Thom Hogan writes, "I keep getting asked the AI question: 'do I use AI?' Or sometimes 'do I think AI will render photography meaningless?' My answers are "yes" and "no" respectively."
- Mike Johnston publishes The Results of the Last Poll, which asked professional photographers what percent of their time to they spend actually taking photos. "The takeaway is simple: even professionals don't get to shoot all that much," he writes. "Any photographer who gets to photograph as much as he or she wants should be grateful, then, because they're among the lucky few!"
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