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Around The Horn
21 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 blackouts, dog Halloween, Sculpture by the Sea, the Fujifilm X-E5, Calla Fleischer, dull light, authenticity and funeral photography.
- Julia Demaree-Nikhinson photographs Ukrainians Dealing With Blackouts after Russian strikes as winter approaches.
- Reuters shows Halloween Gone to the Dogs at parades in New York.
- The Guardian showcases the Sculpture by the Sea exhibit along Sydney's Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk.
- In What's Wrong With the Fuji X-E5, John Camp reviews the interchangeable-lens APS-C camera. He bought two of them. He bemoans "a Lightroom situation," which more properly is a misunderstanding of how cameras in general apply film simulations and styles. They are only applied to JPEG renderings and not to Raw files.
- In Calla Fleischer: Stories Untold, Heidi Volpe talks to the photographer about her project "made of thousands of images taken over many years." The final few hundred images tell stories from around the world.
- Jason Row is Embrace the gray by shooting on dull days. "Shooting in dull light requires a different mindset and so today I am going to suggest some ideas on how to embrace the gray," he writes.
- In The Shape of Truth: What Authenticity Means in Photography, Paul Melcher explores the fight over what authenticity means. "We have a fabrication (the marketing recreation) and a testimony (the news photograph) and we call them both 'authentic.' That’s the problem," he writes. "Ultimately, authenticity should describe an image that participates in revealing the world, not fabricating it."
- A Reddit poster asks for advice about Funeral Photography and gets a very detailed answer right at the start.
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