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8 March 2022
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 Black women photographers, photographing protest, civilians in Ukraine, Sony World Photography winners, Luke Gooden, McNally's Gorbachev, Instagram, a composite, hanging prints and Capture One for iPad.
- Matt Fidler interviews seven Black Women Photographers on What International Women's Day Means to Them.
- In Photographing Protest, Sarah Gilbert presents images from a new exhibition of work by female and non-binary photojournalists, documenting decades of protest and challenging the idea that this genre is a male domain.
- In Photos Show Devastation Against Civilians in Ukraine, Samantha Michaels features the work of Associated Press photographers covering the conflict.
- Grace Ebert presents Winners of the 2022 Sony World Photography Awards.
- Devid Gualandris shows how Luke Gooden's photos create A Connection to the Self and the World Around Us. "Capturing the viewer's attention with its compositional refinement and tonal subtlety, its distinctive visual language is marked by a sincere aesthetic yet full of subtle complexity," he writes.
- In Standing Alone, Joe McNally recalls photographing Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow. The studio session was "a complete failure" so McNally took him outside to photograph him standing alone in the woods.
- In Reel Interesting Data, Dave Williams discovered 91 percent of his 37K Instagram followers want to see photos rather than stills on the platform.
- In The Creative Composite, Julieanne Kost demonstrates using the Pen tool, Shape Layers, and Layer Masks to composite an image:
- Kelly Tarbuck shares Seven Ideas to Showcase Your Favorite Photos in your living room.
- Capture One announced the beta of Capture One for iPad will be available next month. "Import directly to your iPad from camera, card or files stored locally with the ability to cull and organize images on the fly, ensuring minimal time wasted on set and between shoots," the company said.
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