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Around The Horn
29 July 2021
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 Elliott Verdier, Women Street Photographers, Ben Van Hook, Ole Bielfeldt, Harold Davis and Mike Johnston.
- Stephanie Wade interviews Paris-based photojournalist Elliott Verdier about his images of The People and Landscapes of Post-War Liberia. "The difficulty was to transcribe the invisible, latent trauma that weighs on Liberia," he says. "So I just hope that I have been able to pull this story out of anonymity, these lives that flow away from our eyes, to keep a trace, a memory." Taken over two years, the photographs have been collected in Reaching for Dawn.
- The Paris exhibition of Women Street Photographers features 30 women photographers from 20 countries. LensCulture highlights the work of seven of them.
- Suzanne Sease features the personal project of Ben Van Hook, which reminds us of our Stanley project years ago for a great nephew who has just graduated from Cornell (so it can't be said to have derailed him). In this case it's Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls, rescued from the trash to travel the world together.
- Ole Bielfeldt's Colorful Macro Photo of Beach Sand from Mallorca reveals fragments of coral, quartz, shells and plastic, Grace Ebert notes. Bielfeldt photographed the "very clean natural sand" under a microscope.
- Harold Davis collects visual Oddities and here adds two more: a yellow stanchion and wrapped hay bales.
- Mike Johnston laments Photographing With the Wrong Camera. All too true, especially for camera reviewers (whose ranks we served in for a while ourselves). We had a little fun, though, editing his landscape image in Camera Raw. Even thought it's a JPEG, there was quite a lot we could do with it.
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