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5 July 2018
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 Thailand rescue, Dawoud Bey, Doug Ross, European copyright law update, Draw This and a DxO discount.
- After 10 Days Trapped in a Cave in Thailand, a Difficult Rescue Lies Ahead, Alan Taylor reports with 30 photos of the rescue effort for a group of 12 boys, ages 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old soccer coach.
- In Escaping to Freedom, in the Shadows of the Night, Maurice Berger looks at Night Coming Tenderly, Black, a new series by the photographer Dawoud Bey inspired by the Underground Railroad.
- In The Art of the Personal Project: Doug Ross, Suzanne Sease highlights a few of Ross's images from Coney Island, A Black and White Retrospective. And there are more here.
- The BBC reports MEPs Reject Controversial Copyright Law as the European Parliament shelves the copyright protection plan until September.
- Draw This introduces a Polaroid camera that draws cartoons using "a neural network for object recognition, the google quickdraw dataset, a thermal printer, and a raspberry pi," according to Dan Macnish.
- DxO is offering up to 30 percent off updates to DxO PhotoLab 1.2 through July 9.
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