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Around The Horn
14 November 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 AP's week, Reuters' week, defamiliarizing, camera back alignment, Robby Müller and LensCulture Art Photography Awards.
- The Associated Press showcases its top Photos of the Week curated by photo editor Anita Baca and photo assistant MaKayla Hart.
- Reuters presents 20 photos from around the world in The Week in Pictures.
- Mike Johnston discusses Defamiliarizing as a fundamental strategy of photography, which shows "the glimpses between sights that our eyes must see all the time but that our brains seldom record."
- A Reddit poster asks, Anyone Know a Trick to Align Camera to Background? Along with the simple and traditional answer of using a mirror near the subject, a few mention levels and lasers to get the camera back parallel to the subject.
- Stanley/Barker has published Dutch cinematographer Robby Müller's LA Polaroids. "He always carried his SX-70 Polaroid camera, making tender images when work paused, bringing what William Friedkin called 'a foreigner's eye' to America: noticing details others missed, avoiding clichés, always returning to light and color as his true subjects."
- LensCulture is accepting submissions for its Art Photography Awards. "Winners will be exhibited in New York during The Photography Show, celebrated online in LensCulture, featured in international press, awarded cash prizes and gain access to powerful career-boosting opportunities." Deadline is Dec. 17.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look back. And please support our efforts...