Photo Corners headlinesarchivemikepasini.com
A S C R A P B O O K O F S O L U T I O N S F O R T H E P H O T O G R A P H E R
Enhancing the enjoyment of taking pictures with news that matters, features that entertain and images that delight. Published frequently.
Around The Horn
8 March 2019
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 International Women's Day, women at Adobe, Gerda Taro, Rosie the Riveters, minefields in Sri Lanka, Doug Mills, a comparison shoot, Route 66 and worthless camera reviews.
- In Protests, Placards and Prayers on International Women's Day, The Guardian presents a selection of images marking International Women's Day around the world.
- In Women at Adobe: A Year of Progress, Kate Juran, the company's senior director of diversity and inclusion, reports Adobe's gender mix overall, in management, in leadership roles and in tech. It is doing decidedly better than the banking industry, according to Christine Lagarde.
- Magnum profiled Gerda Taro: The First Woman War Photographer to Die in the Field for International Women's Day. Thousands of people lined the streets of Paris in 1937 to mourn her death in Spain covering the Battle of Brunete.
- Hanna Brooks Olsen presents 14 Vintage Photos of Real-Life Rosie the Riveters.
- Alan Taylor presents 21 photos of The Women Who Are Clearing the Minefields in Sri Lanka. "Allison Joyce, a photographer with Getty Images, recently spent time with some of the Tamil women, many of them widows and survivors of the war, who work for the HALO Trust, one of the NGOs trying to clear one of the largest minefields in the world," he writes. They've cleared cleared 309,354 mines and unexploded ordnance.
- In Our White House Photographer on Covering President Trump, James Estrin interviews N.Y. Times staff photographer Doug Mills after he returned from covering the Hanoi summit with Kim Jong-un. "I have no agenda and I photograph what's in front of me and it doesn't matter whether I think he looks flattering or not flattering or he looks upset or he looks happy -- that's irrelevant to me," Mills says.
- In Counterpoint: Same Subject, Different Eyes, Praneeth Rajsingh shoots alongside Ming Thein and compares their results.
- In Forget the Neon, Mark Murrmann looks at Pulitzer Prize-winning, former New York Times photographer Edward Keating's photos of the "darkness and decay" along Route 66. The images are from Keating's Main Street: The Lost Dream of Route 66 with 84 photographs taken from 2000 to 2011.
- Scott Kelby knows Why Most Camera Reviews These Days Are Worthless. "Camera reviews are among the most-broken things in photography today," he writes. Can't disagree (because we no longer read or write them). The discussion (pop over to the 25:00 minute mark) took place during his The Grid show, which asked Rick Sammon and Erik KUna, "Why did you chose the camera you use?"
More to come! Meanwhile, please support our efforts...