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Around The Horn
8 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 a Nobel winner wakes up to the news, The Family of Migrants, an appetite, Moren reviews the iPhone 17 Pro, Roxana Savin and capturing authentic portraits.
- Lindsey Wasson captures Mary E. Brunkow Waking Up to the News She Is a Nobel Winner in Medicine in an intimates series of quiet but moving images.
- Grace Ebert reviews The Family of Migrants, a book and large-scale exhibition at Fenix, a new art museum in Rotterdam. "Spanning documentary, portraits and photojournalism, the included images emerge from 136 photographers in 55 countries across 120 years," she writes. She notes the title is a reference to the 1955 Museum of Modern Art exhibition, The Family of Man, curated by Edward Steichen.
- In An Appetite for Shooting Pictures, Mike Johnston suggests that "the more aptitude you have for any given thing, the more energy you have for doing it." He points out his various fatigue levels with golf, pool and photography as examples. Which made us think that boundless energy is fueled by boundless curiosity.
- Dan Moren reviews the iPhone 17 Pro. "Look, I’m not a camera person. I’m the Joe Average camera user: I like to snap a shot and not worry about settings," he writes. "I enjoy having different zoom options because it gives me more choice about how to frame something, but I’m generally a 'hit it and quit it' person. Does the 17 Pro take very nice pictures? It does! Can I, at a glance, tell the difference between photos taken with it and the 16 Pro or 15 Pro or 14 Pro? Not really."
- Roxana Savin's On Heaven's Doorsill is a fascinating project and accompanying book that investigates the afterlife by combining her grandmother Alexandra's strange dream about her husband with the mythology, folk tales, and ancient traditions of rural Romania, a world shaped by tradition, imagination, and a deep connection to nature, where Roxana was born and brought up.
- Dahlia Ambrose has a few tips for capturing Authentic Portraits.
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