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Around The Horn
5 June 2023
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 a church in Antarctica, Brea Souders, Federico Rios Escobar, a New York City workshop, the Johnson Publishing Co. archive, Nikkor 40mms, a Voitlander 40mm, that 3D look and news photographer safety.
- The Church at the End of the World was built in 2002 from wood shipped from the Siberian city of Altay and its bells were brought from Vladimir, a city east of Moscow. John Bartlett and Sean Smith tell its story in words and pictures.
- Sophie Wright reviews Another Online Pervert, a project by Brea Souders mixing fragments of her conversation with a female AI chatbot and photographs from her archive.
- Through the Darien Gap feature Federico Rios Escobar's images documenting refugees in the border region between Panama and Colombia. "For me, as a photographer, it is impossible not to be moved by the avalanche of people who risk their lives in search of an opportunity, because they cannot lead a life in their countries," he says.
- In Behind the Scenes: New York City Workshop, Scott Kelby shares behind-the-scenes photos and images taken by the participants for "a real sense of what it's like to come on one of these workshops."
- In The Ambitious Plan to Open Up a Treasure Trove of Black History, Erin Migdol updates the progress of the seven-year project at the Getty to digitize the Johnson Publishing Co. archive, which contains 4.5 million prints and negatives.
- In Nikkor 40mms (Nikon Has It Covered), Mike Johnston catalogs the company's devotion to the slightly wide normal. "Other than that, this seems true: whatever your choice for a main/normal lens, prime or zoom, 35mm[e], 40mm[e] or 50mm[e] and for whichever kind of camera, the Nikon Z System has it covered," he writes. "And that is what a system is supposed to do."
- And Kirk Tuck puts a Voitlander 40mm f2.0 Ultron on a Leica SL and shoots everything in sight for a weekend slide show "from a brisk walk through the area just to the West of the UT campus."
- How Do You Take Images That Look 3D? Thom Hogan explains it's just "limited depth of field targeting a central subject with high acuity, but less acuity as you move outward. Hmm, just like our eye/brain works."
- A Reddit poster asks for tips about News Photographer Safety covering crime on the night shift. Some real world advice from those who have been there and are still doing it.
More to come! Meanwhile, here's a look five years back. And please support our efforts...