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19 November 2020
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 Don McCullin, landscape photography, Sara Bennett, Sara Forrest, a snowflake camera, Johnston's shed and the optimum digital exposure.
- Along with the news that Angelina Jolie will direct a biopic of photographer Don McCullin starring Tom Hardy, the Guardian has published a few of McCurry's Previously Unseen Images from his new book In Search of Elsewhere.
- Winners of the Landscape Photographer of the Year contest have been announced.
- In Looking Inside, Lodoe-Laura Haines-Wangda writes about Sara Bennett's photographs of women serving life sentences in confinement. Bennett is a former public defender who used photography to argue her cases and now collaborates with her subjects who have written brief statements to accompany their portraits.
- Suzanne Sease features the personal project of Sara Forrest who found a metaphor in the building of a sailboat.
- In An Ultra High-Resolution 'Snowflake Camera' Captures the Extraordinary Details of Snow Crystals, Grace Ebert showcases images by Nathan Myhrvold using a custom camera with a cooled-stage microscope to ensure that the flakes remained frozen.
- In The Whole Point of a Hobby, Mike Johnston plans to develop his new shed as "a three-purpose room ... pool table, exhibition space and library."
- Bob DiNatale describes The Optimum Digital Exposure from his book of the same name. "With optimum exposure, you do not have to compromise the film-like appearance with digital photography," he writes.
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